Viotti - Flute Quartets op.22
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 95645
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Chamber
Release Date: 9th April 2020
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Artists
Viotti QuartetAbout
On this new recording, the flautist Stefano Parrino is joined by his brother, the Viotti expert and violinist Francesco Parrino, as well as two of the other string players who, as the Viotti String Quartet, have recorded the composer’s complete works in that medium for Brilliant Classics (95264). The set met with a warm critical reception for its ‘top-notch’ musicians (Fanfare).
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755–1824) was one of the leading Italian violin virtuosos in the period between Tartini and Paganini. Having settled in Paris in 1782, he became a teacher of such influence that he is now counted the founder of the French violin school, though he moved to London in 1792, where he remained for the rest of his life, performing as a soloist in Salomon’s concerts and forging a friendship with Haydn.
Giovanni Battista Viotti (1755-1824) received his musical education from Gaetano Pugnani. He served for a short time at the Savoy Court in Turin but soon he spread his wings and travelled to Paris, where he was an instant success as a supreme violin virtuoso. He served for a time at the court of Versailles before he founded an opera house in Paris. The French revolution urged him to go abroad and he settled in London, where he featured in the Hanover Square concert series and was active as a concert organizer and impresario, as well as one of the founders of the Philharmonic Society of London.
Viotti was an influential musician violinist and teacher, and he composed extensively for his instrument. This new recording however presents his only opus dedicated to the flute: the three Flute Quartets, op.22, for solo flute and string trio. These delightful works are in Early-Classical style. Based on the principles of the Viennese Classics it hints at more romantic feelings of times to come.
Played by the Italian Viotti Quartet, paying an impressive tribute to their name giver Giovanni Battista Viotti. They already successfully recorded the complete Viotti String Quartets for Brilliant Classics.
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