from Rossini: Soirées musicales (CDA67647) 1 La promessa [3'42] 27 minutes 40 seconds 11 tracks2 Il rimprovero [3'22] 3 L'orgia [3'25] 4 La partenza [4'38] 5 L'invito [3'37] 6 La pastorella dell'Alpi [2'28] 7 La danza [3'15] 8 La gita in gondola [6'19] 9 La pesca [3'53] 10 La serenata [4'10] 11 La regata veneziana [4'26] ‘Rossini's writing for the piano is highly idiosyncratic. It requires a first-rate technique, a sure sense of style and an ability to bring off insouciance all manner of hair's-breadth effects. Mr Vig ... ‘Salon music at its most sophisticated and highly wrought. Gently elegiac bel canto arias jostle with popular dance rhythms, from a yodelling Tyrolean waltz to the snap and swagger of the bolero and f ... ‘All four musicians make a positive contribution to this charming, entertaining disc—a surprise venture into a still under-explored area of art-song by the ever-enterprising Hyperion’ (International R ... |