![]() ![]() The disc is completed by the two ‘L’arlésienne’ suites and the whole is performed with an impeccable sense of idiom by the splendid Barcelona Symphony Orchestra. Clearing away the cobwebs of the orchestral tradition makes Serebrier’s Carmen as alive and as provocative as she was when she made her first appearance at the Paris Opera. His ‘Carmen Symphony’ presents Bizet’s inspired vision of Spain in wonderful colours. As a composer he has the necessary insights to successfully transport Carmen from the opera stage to the concert platform. And probably no other opera has been subjected to such numerous arrangements.Īs a conductor José Serebrier has never felt that existing transcriptions do justice to the opera score. There is no other opera that can boast as many tunes that are familiar even to people who have never seen it performed. His arrangements for string quartet, trio and other combinations number well over 250 and are played by hundreds of groups all over the world.If great music is music that defies a definitive performance, then Carmen readily qualifies. In the 1960's he turned to film music to make a living, and also worked steadily as a freelance viola player. By the time he was 21 he had written a string quartet and had already had a great deal of success with several large scale serious symphonic compositions, notably his Second Symphony, which had many performances and broadcasts by several major orchestras in the few years after its completion. ![]() ![]() Just before his twelfth birthday he started taking regular violin lessons and very soon began writing elaborate orchestral scores achieving a mastery in this field by the age of sixteen, by which time he had obtained a County Scholarship to attend the Royal College of Music in London, studying composition and viola. By the age of eleven Carlo had developed a passion for the symphony orchestra. Carlo Martelli was born on the 12th December 1935 in London to an Italian father and an English mother. ![]()
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