Oviedo Filarmonia/Haider - Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari: Suite Veneziana; Triptychon; Divertimento; Arabesken

Wolf-Ferrari is famous for his operatic works in which he invented a new idiom by transplanting 18th-century Venetian culture into the 20th century. But almost all of the composer�s orchestral music dates from his final years and occupies a different expressive realm. The Suite veneziana resonates with melancholy, and the Triptychon is a contemplative, passionate masterpiece of orchestration. Subtle use of counterpoint transforms the Divertimento into a playful exploration of themes, while Arabesken pays tribute to an old friend, the Venetian painter Ettore Tito (1859�1941). His own elegantly simple melody, known as �Tito�s theme�, is turned by Wolf-Ferrari into a sequence of sumptuous orchestral variations culminating in a powerful fugue.