Sergej Prokofiev Salvatore Accardo, Laura Gorna, Maria Grazia Bellocchio

• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 1 Sonata n.1 in fa min. for Violin and Piano Op.80, I.Andante assai 07:30
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 2 Sonata n.1 in fa min. for Violin and Piano Op.80, II.Allegro brusco 07:37
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 3 Sonata n.1 in fa min. for Violin and Piano Op.80, III.Andante 08:06
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 4 Sonata n.1 in fa min. for Violin and Piano Op.80, IV.Allegrissimo-Andante assai, come prima 08:07
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 5 Sonata n.2 in re magg. for Violin and Piano Op.94 bis, I.Moderato 08:28
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 6 Sonata n.2 in re magg. for Violin and Piano Op.94 bis, II.Scherzo: Presto-Poco più mosso-Tempo I 05:01
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 7 Sonata n.2 in re magg. for Violin and Piano Op.94 bis, III.Andante 04:15
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 8 Sonata n.2 in re magg. for Violin and Piano Op.94 bis, IV.Allegro con brio-Poco meno mosso-Tempo I-Poco meno mosso-Allegro con brio 07:49
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 9 5 Melodies for Violin and Piano Op.35 bis, I.Andante 02:18
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 10 5 Melodies for Violin and Piano Op.35 bis, II.Lento, ma non troppo 03:00
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 11 5 Melodies for Violin and Piano Op.35 bis, III.Animato, ma non allegro 04:04
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 12 5 Melodies for Violin and Piano Op.35 bis, IV.Andantino, un poco scherzando 01:28
• Salvatore Accardo, Maria Grazia Bellocchio
• 13 5 Melodies for Violin and Piano Op.35 bis, V.Andante non troppo 03:17
• Salvatore Accardo
• 14 Sonata in re magg. For solo Violin Op.115, I.Moderato 05:34
• Salvatore Accardo
• 15 Sonata in re magg. For solo Violin Op.115, II.Andante dolce.Tema con variazioni 04:02
• Salvatore Accardo
• 16 Sonata in re magg. For solo Violin Op.115, III.Con brio. Allegro-precipitato 04:16
• Salvatore Accardo, Laura Gorna
• 17 Sonata in do magg. for 2 Violins Op.56, I.Andante cantabile 03:16
• Salvatore Accardo, Laura Gorna
• 18 Sonata in do magg. for 2 Violins Op.56, II.Allegro 03:20
• Salvatore Accardo, Laura Gorna
• 19 Sonata in do magg. for 2 Violins Op.56, III.Commodo (quasi allegretto) 04:09
• Salvatore Accardo, Laura Gorna
• 20 Sonata in do magg. for 2 Violins Op.56, IV.Allegro con brio 06:05
• Total Runtime 01:41:42

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The recording collaboration with the great violinist Salvatore Accardo continues, which began 29 years ago.

In this project Maestro Accardo plays with the violinist Laura Gorna and the pianist Maria Grazia Bellocchio. This double album contains chamber music by Sergej Prokofiev where the violin is the protagonist: from Sonata in re magg. Op.115 per Violino Solo to 5 Melodies per Violino e Piano etc...

I recorded this album in the Sala dell'Ermellino - Casa della Musica, Milan in February 2020.

For this prestigious recording I used the legendary original Neumann U47, U48 tube microphones. We use pairs of Neumann tube microphones from the years 1947 and 1949 (U47, U48 and M49) with a very natural tone using field effect bi-microphone techniques. These microphones have an important history: they are in fact the original microphones used to record, among others, the Beatles performances in the Abbey Road Studio and by RCA for the “Living Stereo” recordings. The sound I can capture with these legendary microphones is perfectly in line with my sonic taste.

No other microphone has such a true timbre and the ability to engrave all the nuances of sound and all the richness of the harmonics.

The uniqueness of these microphones is linked to their ability to make a perfect "sound photograph" and to put the music perfectly placed in the sound space chosen for the recording.

From 1998 to today I record in DSD 64 x 44.1 bit with Signoricci ex Philips workstations that mount Pyramix programs, 904 analog / digital dCS converters and 954 digital / analog dCS converters.

A "state of the art" system without sound manipulation, equalization, reverb, compression and expansion ... but natural sound and true timbre to best enhance the acoustics of the Auditorium of the Sala dell'Ermellino.

fonè has been offering for almost 40 years recordings made in the name of technological refinement and aimed at recovering the original musical atmospheres.

The mastering of the SACD was made by me using the full analog and tube Signoricci system

With this recording I wanted to give the listener a unique experience.

It is as if the listener were sitting on an armchair positioned in the ideal point in the Sala dell'Ermellino.

In this position the sound has a field effect and its depth, width and height are very noticeable.

Great dynamics and great precision.

Salvatore Accardo, violin
Lura Gorna, violin
Maria Grazia Bellocchio, piano

Salvatore Accardo
born September 26, 1941 in Turin, northern Italy) is an Italian violin virtuoso and conductor.

Accardo studied violin in the southern Italian city of Naples in the 1950s. He gave his first professional recital at the age of 13 performing Paganini's Capricci. In 1956 Accardo won the Geneva Competition and in 1958 became the first prize winner of the Paganini Competition in Genoa. He has recorded Paganini's 24 Caprices (re-recorded in 1999) for solo violin and was the first to record all six of the Paganini Violin Concertos. He has an extensive discography of almost 50 recordings on Philips, DG, EMI, Sony Classical, Foné, Dynamic, and Warner-Fonit. Notably, he has recorded an album of classical and contemporary works in 1995 on Paganini's Guarneri del Gesù 1742 violin, the "Canon".

Accardo founded the Accardo Quartet in 1992 and he was one of the founders of the Walter Stauffer Academy in 1986. He founded the Settimane Musicali Internazionali in Naples and the Cremona String Festival in 1971, and in 1996, he re-founded the Orchestra da Camera Italiana (O.C.I.), whose members are the best pupils of the Walter Stauffer Academy. He performed the music of Paganini for the soundtrack of the 1989 film Kinski Paganini. In the 1970s he was a member of the celebrated Italian chamber orchestra "I Musici".

Accardo owns one Stradivarius violin, the "Hart ex Francescatti" (1727) and had the "Firebird ex Saint-Exupéry" (1718).

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