Dynamic (record label)

HISTORY

Dynamic is an independent Italian label located in Genova, Italy.

It was founded in 1978 by Pietro Mosetti Casaretto and his wife Marisa. Mr. Mosetti Casaretto, a surgeon and an amateur violinist, in later years decided to turn his passion for music and sound engineering into an occupation, and took over the label founded by musicologist Edward Neill.

In the beginning, Dynamic was a small family business, and Mr. Mosetti Casaretto and his wife recorded in locations such as churches, oratories and villas. The first recordings were issued on vinyl, the very first one being Paganini’s Barucabà Variations played by Salvatore Accardo.

In 1985 the label moved to its current site on the Righi hill behind Genoa, where it set up a recording hall that could house a small chamber orchestra. Many of the fine CDs of chamber music that are still in the Dynamic catalogue were recorded in that hall. In the late1990s Mr. Mosetti Casaretto retired, and management of the label was taken over by Mr. Alberto Dellepiane, his son-in-law. Gradually, the label has grown and its production has veered to include opera and DVD.

The company is distributed in 32 countries.

Its production embraces the entire field of classical music, but focuses chiefly on the immense heritage of Italian and European music of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially opera and violin works.

The label is known all over the world as the first recording company to have reappraised Nicolò Paganini’s legacy.

Dynamic favours compositions in world-première recordings or rare works that stand outside the bounds of traditional repertoire.

The Dynamic catalogue boasts over 400 titles, with about 25 new titles being added every year.

More recently, Dynamic has become a high definition content producer for television and cinema.

REPERTOIRE

The dvd repertoire

Vincenzo Bellini: I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Norma, La Sonnambula

Georges Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de perles, Carmen

Arrigo Boito: Mefistofele

Benjamin Britten: Death in Venice

Francesco Cavalli: La Didone

Domenico Cimarosa: Il matrimonio segreto

Michael Daugherty: Jackie O.

Gaetano Donizetti: Maria Stuarda, Pia de' Tolomei, Lucia di Lammermoor, Anna Bolena, L'Elisir d'Amore, Don Gregorio

Baldassare Galuppi: L'Olimpiade

George Frideric Händel: Agrippina, Ariodante, Aci, Galatea e Polifemo

Edouard Lalo: Le Roi d'Ys

Leonardo Leo: L'Alidoro

Heinrich Marschner: Hans Heiling

Vicente Martin y Soler: Il burbero di buon cuore, L'arbore di Diana

Jules Massenet: Le Roi de Lahore, Thaïs, Chérubin

Giacomo Meyerbeer: Il Crociato in Egitto

Claudio Monteverdi: L'Orfeo, Il ritorno di Ulisse in patria

Luca Mosca: Il Signor Goldoni

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Idomeneo

Jacques Offenbach: Les contes d'Hoffmann

Philidor Danican: Tom Jones

Amilcare Ponchielli: La Gioconda

Giacomo Puccini: Madama Butterfly, La Bohème, Tosca

Gioachino Rossini: Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Ermione, L'equivoco stravagante, Maometto II, L'Italiana in Algeri, La Gazza Ladra, Torvaldo e Dorliska, Il Turco in Italia, Bianca e Falliero

Franz Schubert: Alfonso und Estrella

Richard Strauss: Daphne

Giuseppe Verdi: Nabucco, Ernani, Il Corsaro, I Vespri Siciliani, La Forza del Destino, Falstaff, Macbeth, La Traviata

Carl Maria von Weber: Euryanthe

Antonio Vivaldi: Gloria, Ercole su'l Termodonte

Richard Wagner: Parsifal

E. Wolf-Ferrari: La Vedova Scaltra

The CD repertoire

Some of the most notable recordings by Dynamic on CD

Vincenzo Bellini: Complete Operas - Singers: Alaimo, Aliberti, Barcellona, Caballé, Callas, Ciofi, Devia, Frontali, Kunde, Matteuzzi, Morino, Nafè, Ok Shin, Ricciarelli, Scotto, Theodossiou - Conductors: Bernstein, Bonynge, Prêtre

Georges Bizet: Don Procopio

Heinrich Wilhelm Ernst: Studies for solo violin – Ruggiero Ricci, violin

Baldassare Galuppi: Complete Harpsichord Concertos

Kodaly Ravel: Works for violin and cello - Luigi Alberto Bianchi, Franco Maggio Ormezowski

Jules Massenet: Roma - Iano Tamar, soprano - Warren Mok, tenor - Svetlana Arginbaeva, mezzo - Nicolas Rivenq, baritone - Francesco Ellero D'Artegna, bass - Orchestra Internazionale d'Italia - Marco Guidarini, conductor

Felix Mendelssohn: Concerto for violin, piano and string orchestra in D min – Felix Ayo violin - Emma Jimenez, piano, Orquesta Sinfonica de Castilla Y Leon

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ciani plays Mozart – Dino Ciani, piano Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor

Mozart-Busoni: Complete Transcriptions for Piano Solo

Nicolò Paganini: Historical documents - Salvatore Accardo, Giulio Bignami, Sandro Fuga, Vasa Prihoda, violin - Arturo Toscanini and NBC Orchestra 24 Capricci – Leonidas Kavacos, violin

Paganini's violin: its history, sound and photographs – Salvatore Accardo, Laura Manzini

Centone di Sonate for violin and guitar (First complete recording) - Luigi Alberto Bianchi, Maurizio Preda

The 15 Quartets for strings and guitar (First complete recording) - Quartetto Paganini

Works for violin and bassoon – Salvatore Accardo, Claudio Gonella, Bruno Canino

The 6 Violin Concertos - Unpublished Adagio - Multimedia CD Massimo Quarta, violin and conductor - Orchestra del Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova

Works for violin and orchestra - Quarta, Accardo, Mezzena, Bianchi, Menuhin , Ricci, violin

Complete works for violin and guitar - Luigi Alberto Bianchi, violin - Maurizio Preda, guitar

Paganini and various composers: Gran Viola (Luigi Alberto Bianchi plays the 1595 Amati viola) Luigi Alberto Bianchi, viola - RIAS Orchester Berlin - Jaques Delacôte, conductor - Bruno Canino, piano

Gioachino Rossini: Demetrio e Polibio

Ivanhoé

Rossini on Rossini’s Pleyel

Pëtr Il'ič Tchaikovsky: Cherevichki (The Slippers) Oprichnik (complete opera)

Giuseppe Verdi: Gustavo III

Giovanni Battista Viotti: Complete violin Concertos – Franco Bianchi , violin and conductor - Symphonia Perusina - Viotti Chamber Orchestra - Orchestra Milano Classica

Antonio Vivaldi: Catone in Utica - Simon Edwards, tenor - Jacek Laszczkowski, male soprano - Liliana Faraon, soprano - Verónica Cangemi, soprano - Philippe Jaroussky, male alto - Diana Bertini, mezzo - La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy - Jean-Claude Malgoire, conductor

Rosmira Fedele (complete opera) - Marianna Pizzolato - Claire Brua - Salomé Haller - John Elwes - Ensemble Baroque de Nice - Gilbert Bezzina, conductor

Various composers: The Legacy of Cremona - Ruggiero Ricci, violin - Noriko Shiozaki, piano ( Chamber music)

The Violin of David Oistrakh - David Oistrakh, Riccardo Brengola, Franco Gulli, Mariana Sirbu, violin Ruggiero Ricci: A life for the violin - Ricci Ruggiero, violin - Argerich Martha, piano - New Symphony Orchestra - Malcolm Sargent, conductor

Dino Ciani: a tribute - Dino Ciani, piano - Instrumental Music

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