CD's

Flute Masterpieces

Franco Cesarini, Flute & Anna Somaschini, Piano

Product Category Chamber Music
Year of Release 2005
Product Type CD
Label M-DISC
Item number M-DISC 205-025-3

Flute Masterpieces

On this CD a number of works in various styles and from different centuries are represented. The selection has been made by composer and flautist Franco Cesarini, who has carefully adapted the originals to suit the technique and unique expressive nature of the flute. The resulting arrangements and transcriptions are true ‘flute masterpieces’. Franco Cesarini presents the works as a flute soloist, together with Anna Somaschini at the piano.

The CD takes the listener from the world of the Baroque, to music by the French pre-impressionists of the 19th century. Great masters like Bach, Chopin, Elgar, Dvorák, Massenet, Saint-Saëns and others are featured: brilliant works – in which the virtuoso character of the flute is especially noticeable – alternate with works in a cantabile style.

Flute Masterpieces makes all the nuances and colours of the flute shine!

Content

1

Greensleeves to a Ground

3:48

Sheet music

Anonymous, arr. Franco Cesarini

2

Gavotte

2:28

Sheet music

François-Joseph Gossec, arr. Franco Cesarini

3

Badinerie from Suite No. 2 in B minor

1:33

Sheet music

Johann Sebastian Bach, arr. Franco Cesarini

4

Scène des Champs-Elysées from the opera Orphée

7:35

Sheet music

Christoph W. von Gluck, arr. Franco Cesarini

5

Tambourin

2:22

Sheet music

André Ernest Modeste Grétry, arr. Franco Cesarini

6

Variations on a theme by Rossini

6:48

Sheet music

Frédéric Chopin, arr. Franco Cesarini

7

Humoreske Op. 101 No. 7

3:56

Sheet music

Antonin Dvorák, arr. Franco Cesarini

8

Russisches Zigeunerlied Op. 462 No. 2

2:48

Sheet music

Wilhelm Popp, arr. Franco Cesarini

9

Morceau de Concours

2:23

Sheet music

Jules Massenet, arr. Franco Cesarini

10

Song of India from the Legend Sadko

3:21

Sheet music

Nikolai Rimsky Korsakov, arr. Franco Cesarini

11

Méditation from the opera Thaïs

4:46

Sheet music

Jules Massenet, arr. Franco Cesarini

12

Sicilienne Op. 78 from Pelléas et Mélisande

4:56

Sheet music

Gabriel Fauré, arr. Franco Cesarini

13

Salut d'amour Op. 12

3:11

Sheet music

Edward Elgar, arr. Franco Cesarini

Total duration: 49:55

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