In the monumental overture to the opera La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) Gioachino Rossini employs themes from the opera itself in order to prepare the audience for the material to come. The overt...
Nimrod ist der Name der neunten und bekanntesten Variation in Edward Elgars Enigma Variations, einem Orchesterwerk mit 14 Variationen über ein ursprüngliches Thema, das zwischen 1898 und 1899 komponie...
Giuseppe Verdi is one of the most famous composers of Italian opera. Here, Cesarini has masterfully arranged Nabucco.
Franz Liszt's 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies are characterised by melancholy, great expressiveness and wonderful gypsy rhythms. No. 2 is the best known of all, mainly thanks to the use of various passages fo...
L'arrangement pour orchestre d'harmonie de "L'Arlésienne Suite n° 2" de Georges Bizet par Franco Cesarini a été réalisé après que le compositeur ait longtemps cherché une version de l'œuvre qui le sat...
Franco Cesarini presents this valuable collection of pieces, intermediate in difficulty, from the Baroque period to the Impressionists at the beginning of the 20th century. Using these carefully selec...
Le compositeur suisse Franco Cesarini est né en 1961 à Bellinzona. Avec ce quatuor pour flûtes, Cesarini a voulu écrire une musique qui permette un approfondissement tant didactique que musical, accor...
FROM BACH TO BRAHMS leads through 200 years of music history. The arrangements of these 16 small, easily accesible pieces, that were originally written for various instruments, are a wonderful additio...
Following La fl te au salon and Belle Époque, Franco Cesarini dedicated himself once more to French chamber music: Joueurs de fl te presents a delightful selection of compositions for flute and piano...
The term 'salon music' - making music in private salons - was coined in the 19th century. During this period, the invention of the Böhm System and the resulting new sound and technical capabilities of...