Franco Cesarini

This collection will give you the opportunity to concentrate on all the technical and expressive aspects of flute playing, switching from 'brilliant' pieces to works with a more cantabile character, i...

It is often the case that at the end of a concert a soloist is requested to perform an additional item not listed in the programme, in other words an encore. In general the piece that is chosen is sho...

Under the title LUX NORDICA, this edition contains a selection of Romantic pieces by various composers of northern origin. Franco Cesarini collected seven works from Niels W. Gade and Carl Nielsen (De...

German Romanticism includes selected works from some of the most important composers of the style, to whom-in terms of musical history-the Austrian Franz Schubert also belongs. Besides Carl Maria von...

The variation form is one of the oldest and most fundamental forms of musical technique. Franco Cesarini has chosen the well known French folk melody, Sur le pont d'Avignon as the basis for this piece...

The Cossacks played an integral part in Russia's history which finally ended with the Soviet occupation in the 1920s. Franco Cesarini had the opportunity to attend performances by an ethnic group of C...

American author Mark Twain spent seven years writing Huckleberry Finn - the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on t...

Après le grand succès de la « Suite de chants populaires grecs », qui connaît un succès ininterrompu depuis plus de vingt ans, Franco Cesarini explore une nouvelle fois la longue et riche tradition de...

Giuseppe Verdi is one of the most famous composers of Italian opera. Here, Cesarini has masterfully arranged Nabucco.

Often, individual parts of operas become very successful, independent instrumental pieces. An outstanding example is the Anvil Chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore. Thanks to its symphonic...

Often, individual parts of operas become very successful, independent instrumental pieces. An outstanding example is the Anvil Chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore. Thanks to its symphonic...

The Gran Finale from the second act of Verdi's famous opera Aida, composed in 1869, is a complex part of the drama as in one single scene many different characters, allwith contrasting emotions, appea...

The Barber of Seville is based on the first of Beaumarchais' (1732- 1799) two sequential plays, The Marriage of Figaro being the second, although unusually the overture does not contain any themes fro...

Camillo De Nardis' Il giudizio universale (The Universal Judgement) was awarded first prize at the Competition for Band Composition held in Naples. This composition was inspired by Verdi's Requiem wit...

The title refers to the historical period that marked the transition between the baroque and classical styles. Rococo music is characterised by a profusion of ornaments, by graceful elegance and light...

La Passacaille est un ensemble de variations reposant sur une basse ostinato. La Passacaille et Fugue en ut mineur pour orgue de Bach est l'apogée de ce qui avait été réalisé jusque-là. La version po...

La Passacaille est un ensemble de variations reposant sur une basse ostinato. La Passacaille et Fugue en ut mineur pour orgue de Bach est l'apogée de ce qui avait été réalisé jusque-là. La version po...

Fanfare viennoise de Richard Strauss, une version courte de Festmusik der Stadt Wien, composée à l’origine pour dix trompettes, sept trombones, deux tubas et timbales, a servi de base à l’arrangement...

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) était un compositeur d'opéra allemand d'origine juive, décrit comme étant peut-être le compositeur de musique de scène le plus prolifique du XIXe siècle. De 1831 à sa mor...

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) était un compositeur d'opéra allemand d'origine juive, décrit comme le compositeur de théâtre le plus réussi du XIXe siècle. Il est resté une figure dominante du monde de...

César Franck, Komponist, Pianist, Organist und Musiklehrer schrieb Amor und Psyché, seine sechste und letzte symphonische Dichtung in 1887. Die Uraufführung fand 1888 in Paris statt und war ein großer...