(1998) Gioacchino Rossini: Six Sonatas For Strings
Category(ies): Orchestra
Main Composer: Gioachino Rossini
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra Kremlin
CD set: 1
Catalog N°:
CD 9222
Release: 1992
EAN/UPC: 7619931922225
- UPC: 829410493765
This album is now on repressing. Pre-order it at a special price now.
CHF 18.50
This album is no longer available on CD.
This album has not been released yet. Pre-order it from now.
CHF 18.50
This album is no longer available on CD.
This album is no longer available on CD.
VAT included for Switzerland & UE
Free shipping
This album is now on repressing. Pre-order it at a special price now.
CHF 18.50
This album is no longer available on CD.
This album has not been released yet.
Pre-order it at a special price now.
CHF 18.50
This album is no longer available on CD.
This album is no longer available on CD.
NEW: Purchases are now made in the currency of your country. Change country here or at checkout
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI: SIX SONATAS FOR STRINGS
Rossini himself described these works as «six dreadful sonatas, composed by me on holiday at the home (near Ravenna) of my Maecenas friend Agostino Triossi when I was at a most infantile age, not even having taken a lesson in accompaniment.» Written at the age of twelve, as if only for the pleasure of it, in only three days with an ease reminiscent of Mozart, these compositions exude an entrancing, naive freshness. The young prodigy succeeded in imprinting them with an unbelievable wealth of emotions. Joy, felicity, vitality, refinement and spiritual harmony, all of the qualities typical of the mature Rossini can already be found expressed in these works.
Rossini’s contagious laughter is also present for the first time in these sonatas; his unique sense of humor is manifested here not in words or with a plot, but through various instrumental timbres and textures. Rossini’s witty and acerbic comments about his sonatas almost proved to be their demise; they were banished to dusty archives and remained anonymous to musicians, scholars and music-lovers for some 150 years, for an entire century and a half!
It was not possible, however, forever to hide the genius behind these six masterpieces. They now belong to the standard repertoire of the best chamber orchestras, along with works like Vivaldi’s concertos, Haydn’s symphonies and divertimentos and Mozart’s «Eine kleine Nachtmusik».
(1998) Gioacchino Rossini: Six Sonatas For Strings - CD 9222
Rossini himself described these works as «six dreadful sonatas, composed by me on holiday at the home (near Ravenna) of my Maecenas friend Agostino Triossi when I was at a most infantile age, not even having taken a lesson in accompaniment.» Written at the age of twelve, as if only for the pleasure of it, in only three days with an ease reminiscent of Mozart, these compositions exude an entrancing, naive freshness. The young prodigy succeeded in imprinting them with an unbelievable wealth of emotions. Joy, felicity, vitality, refinement and spiritual harmony, all of the qualities typical of the mature Rossini can already be found expressed in these works.
Rossini’s contagious laughter is also present for the first time in these sonatas; his unique sense of humor is manifested here not in words or with a plot, but through various instrumental timbres and textures. Rossini’s witty and acerbic comments about his sonatas almost proved to be their demise; they were banished to dusty archives and remained anonymous to musicians, scholars and music-lovers for some 150 years, for an entire century and a half!
It was not possible, however, forever to hide the genius behind these six masterpieces. They now belong to the standard repertoire of the best chamber orchestras, along with works like Vivaldi’s concertos, Haydn’s symphonies and divertimentos and Mozart’s «Eine kleine Nachtmusik».
Return to the album | Composer(s): Gioachino Rossini | Main Artist: Misha Rachlevsky
%20Gioacchino%20Rossini:%20Six%20Sonatas%20For%20Strings){kind=link}