Born in the same decade as his more famous contemporaries, Malipiero, Casella and Pizzetti, Carlo Giorgio Garofalo composed a considerable body of sacred and secular music.
Until its 1994 Moscow revival conducted by Joel Spiegelman, Garofalo�s Romantic Symphony, admired by Toscanini and Nikisch, had been performed in full score only once. It is a dramatically gripping and uplifting work of unabashed Romanticism. Garofalo�s gift for sweeping melodies and well-rounded musical form is also evident in his Violin Concerto whose solo part gives ample opportunity for rapturously virtuosic display and poignant lyricism.
Until its 1994 Moscow revival conducted by Joel Spiegelman, Garofalo�s Romantic Symphony, admired by Toscanini and Nikisch, had been performed in full score only once. It is a dramatically gripping and uplifting work of unabashed Romanticism. Garofalo�s gift for sweeping melodies and well-rounded musical form is also evident in his Violin Concerto whose solo part gives ample opportunity for rapturously virtuosic display and poignant lyricism.
�Garofalo has a melodic gift and with a bit more experience might have given Respighi a run for his money.� --American Record Guide
"Two works are offered here�neither have opus numbers or dates of composition although the symphony did receive its first�and only complete performance prior to this Russian revival�in 1915. The disc opens with the Violin Concerto. The soloist here is Sergei Stadler. He won the 1982 Tchaikovsky competition at the age of 20 and his pedigree is not in doubt. Throughout he plays with great attack and fervour and succeeds in surmounting the many technical hurdles Garofalo puts in his way...there are several passages of rather beautiful [orchestral] playing�particularly from the solo horn and oboe." --MusicWeb International, September 2010
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