Release Date: 30 March 2008
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 747313059072
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Rossini
Description
When Rossini drew a line under his own hugely successful operatic career at the age of 37, he spent his final years in Paris where he wrote numerous short piano pieces arranged in 14 volumes, which he jokingly called 'P?®ch?®s de vieillesse' (Sins of Old Age): experimental trifles which blur the boundaries between the irreverent and the serious. Volume VII, 'Album de chaumi?®re' (The Cottage Album) includes gems such as the delightful 'Petite polka chinoise', the intimate and touching 'Petite valse de boudoir', and the decidedly reassuring 'Pr?®lude inoffensif'. The recording is rounded off with four solo piano pieces from Volume IX of the 'P?®ch?®s', whose titles, like those of the other works on this disc, are playfully deceptive.
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
