Fantasie d’Opera
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Label: Tactus
Cat No: TC820002
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 1st September 2014
Contents
Works
Gran fantasia for flute and piano on Rossini's 'Mose in Egitto', op.3Divertimento sull'Opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor' di Gaetano Donizetti
Duetto concertato for flute and bassoon with piano accompaniment on themes by Verdi (Pietro Morlacchi)
Duetto for flute and bassoon on the opera 'Guglielmo Tell'
Artists
Trio HormusWorks
Gran fantasia for flute and piano on Rossini's 'Mose in Egitto', op.3Divertimento sull'Opera 'Lucia di Lammermoor' di Gaetano Donizetti
Duetto concertato for flute and bassoon with piano accompaniment on themes by Verdi (Pietro Morlacchi)
Duetto for flute and bassoon on the opera 'Guglielmo Tell'
Artists
Trio HormusAbout
The great opera music fantasias (such as the flute one by Pietro Morlacchi on Mosè in Egitto and the bassoon one by Antonio Torriani on Lucia di Lammermoor) were the mainstay of the publishing activity of Francesco Lucca and Tito and Giulio Ricordi in Milan. Non-professional lovers of music ranged, in their mastery of the instruments, from amateurs to concert performers. So the instrumental fantasias were 'moulded' to the patrons’ specific requirements, and nourished a constantly growing market.
When, at the end of the nineteenth century, Lucca’s daughters sold their father’s plates to the Ricordi publishing house, the sum paid by Ricordi for this commercial assimilation was huge for that period: this shows that the market of amateur instrumentalists had become enormous.
So the history of Pietro Morlacchi and Antonio Torriani coincides with the history of the success of the instrumental music genre in Italy. Thanks to the quality and liveliness of their virtuosic style, these two composers’ pieces can still be enjoyed in a concert performance.
In Italy, the composers who reduced operas were almost always instrumentalists, and their patient musical craftsmanship did not separate instrumental mastery from the invention of bravura variations. In other words, composition and virtuosity coexisted and were the backbone of these works. In the catalogues of the nineteenth-century publishers, the only pieces that survived were those that were really significant from a musical point of view: the works by Morlacchi and Torriani belong to this happy minority.
Trio Hormus:
- Carlo Tamponi, flute
- Francesco Bossone, bassoon
- Stefano Micheletti, piano
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