Name: Camilleri: Mediterranean
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Release Date: 28th Aug 2015
Catalogue No: 8573373
Label: Naxos
Length: 60 minutes

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Camilleri: Piano Concerto No. 1 'Mediterranean'

Work length28:47

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$10.30

Charlene Farrugia, Marco Cola
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra
Miran Vaupotić

I. Allegro moderato

Track length10:32

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$3.85

II. Adagio

Track length11:11

$3.00

$3.85

III. Allegro molto vivace

Track length7:04

$2.00

$2.60

Camilleri: Accordion Concerto

Work length14:23

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$3.90

Franko Božac
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra
Miran Vaupotić

I. Andante moderato

Track length5:42

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$1.30

II. Andante

Track length4:39

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III. Allegro vivace

Track length4:02

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$1.30

Camilleri: Malta Suite

Work length17:06

$4.00

$5.20

Joseph Camilleri
Malta Philharmonic Orchestra
Miran Vaupotić

I. Country Dance

Track length3:18

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$1.30

II. Waltz

Track length4:03

$1.00

$1.30

III. Nocturne

Track length4:31

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Village Festa

Track length5:14

$1.00

$1.30

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The three works on this recording come from the first phase in the musical development of Malta’s prolific composer Charles Camilleri, and are some of his most rewarding and enduring works.

The Piano Concerto No.1 ‘Mediterranean’ owes much to the Romantic concerto tradition but is suffused with the distinctive flavours of music from southern Europe and North Africa. A virtuoso of the accordion, Camilleri wrote a Concerto for the instrument that journeys humorously from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. The Malta Suite, a set of colourful dances, is widely considered the island’ s musical emblem.

Because of his teaching appointments Camilleri is still remembered in the UK, USA and especially Canada. His memory is still vivid in his native island and the Waltz from the Malta Suite recorded on this disc is played every day in one of Valletta’s main squares (Valletta is the Maltese capital).

These three works date from his early Nationalist phase where he fused Maltese and Mediterranean folk tunes to ‘art music’ traditions, similar to works by de Falla, Bartók and Vaughan Williams. The music is brilliant and approachable - the Piano Concerto would make a good Prom piece!

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