Orchestra della Toscana / Daniele Rustioni / Alessandro Taverna ALFREDO CASELLA

The dynamic young Italian conductor and his Tuscan orchestra are on scintillating and often witty form...there’s a whiff of Shostakovich about the Concerto for Piano, Timpani, Percussion and Strings from 1943 (so sparsely scored in places that long stretches sound like chamber-music), whilst the spiky, brightly-coloured neo-Baroque world of Scarlattiana of 1926 is second cousin to Stravinsky.

Francesca Dego PAGANINI - WOLF-FERRARI Violin Concertos

Celebrated for her sonorous tone, compelling interpretations and flawless technique, Francesca Dego is quickly becoming one of the most sought after young violinists on the international scene. Signed in 2012 by Deutsche Grammophon, her debut album of Paganini’s 24 Caprices and a subsequent complete survey of Beethoven’s Violin Sonatas received critical acclaim. Autumn 2017 sees the release of her highly anticipated first concerto disc featuring works by Paganini and Wolf-Ferrari.

This album marks Italian violinist Francesca Dego’s debut orchestral recording on the Deutsche Grammophon label.

It features two Italian masterpieces: Wolf-Ferrari’s seldom-performed Violin Concerto and Paganini’s renowned Violin Concerto Number 1, which celebrates its 200th anniversary this year.

Francesca recorded Wolf-Ferrari’s Violin Concerto live in March 2017, when she gave the UK premiere of the piece at Symphony Hall with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the renowned Italian conductor Daniele Rustioni.

Francesca regularly appears with the world’s leading orchestras, performing both the Paganini and Wolf-Ferrari concertos extensively in the future.