The Virtuoso Flute - Raffaele Trevisani / Paola Girardi (DE 3340)
Never was a CD more aptly titled than this recent Delos release featuring the artistry of flutist Raffaele Trevisani and pianist Paola Girardi.
This new flute and piano CD of 19th century repertoire demonstrates the enormous advances in virtuosic playing made possible with mechanical improvements added to the instrument in the first third of the century.
Composers of the age of romanticism including Donizetti, Sarasate, Boehm, Massenet, Doppler, Borne and Bazzini all created music which reveled in emotion, virtuosic execution and individual indulgences of all kinds.
Raffaele Trevisani, playing his 14-carat gold Miramatsu flute, illustrates the period
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