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Cavallini Adagio e Tarantella cadenza

Author: vjoet
Date: 2011-04-01 14:31

Hi all,

I've been asked to play the Cavallini Adagio e Tarantella with the community band in a few weeks.

I'm very fond of Italian opera and appreciate its dramatic nature. I studied the score before ever hearing a performance of the work, and came to my own conclusions.

I'm writing this to elicit comments on how I intend to perform what is demarked as a cadenza. (Actually, to my way of thinking the first 52 measures are basically a cadenza with band punctuation.)

I have recordings of this work now by John Denman (1990) and Hans Rudolf Stalder (1983). They play this passage basically as written, a slew of fast notes. My intent is not to criticize professionals, but I think they have missed the dramatic nature of this passage: it is almost gypsy-like to my ear.

I attach in a subsequent post 2 jpgs, showing the lines as in the part, and my interpretation. Verdi's Cavallini -- to my understanding -- would have performed this passage dramatically, not as fireworks (that comes in the subsequent 3 measures).

I'd appreciate comments, after you've looked at the other post with the graphics. (I limited the amount photographed, just showing the applicable portion. I'm sure this falls within fair-use in copyright laws.)

Vann Joe

Post Edited (2011-04-01 14:47)

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