G. VERDI
19th century transcriptions for oboe and piano

• R.De Stefani—Il Trovatore—Fantasia
  (Prima incisione mondiale)

• D.Lovreglio—Un Ballo in Maschera-Fantasia

• G.Daelli—Rigoletto –Fantasia

• G.Gariboldi—La Traviata—Mosaico

• R.De Stefani—Attila—Divertimento

• R.Parma—Rigoletto—Pot-Pourri

GIANFRANCO BORTOLATO Oboe  R. AROSIO Pianoforte

RIVOALTO CRR 9821

“PASSIONS, WRITTEN AND TO LISTEN”
"Pleasant cd that conquers while listening. The interpreters are very musical and able to individualize a credible performing idea that combines a wide ”cantabile” to an amusing brilliance in the virtuous parts.
The pianist possesses a beautiful touch, varied and through a lively musical fantasy archives that these pages of an orchestral character become credible.
The oboist, brilliant, is endowed indisputably with technical facility and is able to transmit delicate and sensible ”cantabili”.
What makes a difference with other similar proposals is that while listening to it one has the feeling of a finished product, not the usual recording of a “rarity” made just to make a disk as it often happens.
The pieces have been studied and give the idea of having been meditated by its interpreters not only from an exquisite instrumental point of view...
The variety of pianistic nuances and the expressiveness of the oboist give us an idea of music played with love and even on the brighter passages a certain pleasant composure remains.
We are thankful to the interpreters that emphasize with affectionate understanding all the different aspects of these pages."
(Enrico Meyer — CD Classica October ‘99)

GIANFRANCO BORTOLATO, first oboist of the Orchestra del Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, has produced a new CD of 19th century transcriptions for oboe and piano. Entitled Parigi, O Cara and featuring pianist Roberto Arosio, the disc includes De Stefani’s fantasy on II Trovatore and his divertimento on Attila, Lovreglio’s fantasy on Un ballo in Maschera, Daelli’s Rigoletto Fantasia, Gariboldi’s Traviata Mosaico, and Parma’s potpourri on Rigoletto. (The disc is RIVOALTO CRR 9821; email: rivoalto@tin.it) Sandro Caldini writing in CD Classica refers to “a brilliant oboist endowed with technical facility who is still able to transmit delicate and sensitive cantabiles. The pianist possesses a beautiful touch, varied and able to perform credibly even passages of an orchestral character. The variety of pianistic nuance and the expressiveness of the oboist give us an idea of music played with love, and even in the most brilliant passages a feeling of great confidence pervades these performances.”

Bortolato was born in 1964 and he won his diploma at the B. Marcello Conservatoire in Venice where he was taught by Bruno Baldan and Pietro Borgonovo. He also studied at the Musik-Akademie of Basel, and with Hans Elhorst at the Hochschule for Musik in Freiburg. Before coming to Rome he was first oboist with the Orchestra Sinfonica of Sanremo and with the orchestra at Teatro La Scala. He gave the first performance in Italy of Antal Dorati’s Trittico for oboe, oboe d’amore, English horn and strings. With the Avant-garde Quintet, he was one of the finalists in the 46thInternational ARD Competition in Munich.
(IDRS Magazine)

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