Paisiello - 6 Flute Quartets op.23
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95268
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 24th March 2017
Contents
Artists
Gabriele Formenti (flute)Ensemble Il Demetrio
About
The sonatas are gentle and undemanding works, cast in two movements apart from the single-movement Sixth. The flute carries most of the melodic interest and engages in lively duet writing with the violin, while a cello and harpsichord offer a solid foundation and deft accompaniment. Even the quicksilver passagework of the flute part lies within the range of a competent amateur, and there is much pleasure to be taken from melodies of a quality that made Paisiello the toast of Europe as an opera composer, pleasing public taste with more immediate success than Mozart.
Indeed his most famous admirer was none other than Napoleon Bonaparte, who had appointed the composer maestro di cappella nazionale to the republic in May 1799 (although he afterwards claimed he had not wanted this post), which got him in hot water when Naples was recaptured by the forces of its king a month later. While these sonatas were composed, the heads of Europe were wrangling over who would have first call on Paisiello’s services. Napoleon won, and the composer spent several profitable years in France before he sought release and a return home, though Napoleon continued to reward his service with a pension and membership of the Legion d’Honneur.
This is Gabriele Formenti’s second album for Brilliant Classics, after his participation in the album of trio sonatas by a less familiar Neapolitan figure, Carlo Tessarini (BC93983).
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