PECHÉS D’OPÉRA Rossini

Before he inconvenienced everyone by dying, Rossini composed his Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), one of which was the ‘Prélude, thème et variations pour cor’, featured in a new release of charming pieces for horn and mezzo by a variety of 19th-century composers. Alessandro Denabian plays a natural horn from the 1830s with almost alarming alacrity, and Lucia Cirillo sings elegantly, with Francesca Bacchetta as their accomplished pianist.

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