Patrick Gallois – The Art of Patrick Gallois, Vol. 1: Morceaux de concours de Paris (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:05:27 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Virtus Classics
This is the first album of the series by Maestro Patrick Gallois plays masterpieces for flute under the label VIRTUS CLASSICS. Here is a beautiful and charming collection of “morceaux de concours” (examination pieces) of the Paris Conservatory, starting from Faure in 1898 and the beginning of the 20th century.
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Czech Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra Pardubice, Patrick Gallois – Cimarosa: Overtures, Vol. 6 (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:41 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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Domenico Cimarosa’s operas were remarkably successful, being staged and re-staged in opera houses all over Europe. Success in his home town of Naples led to court appointments and royal commissions, including his best-known work Il matrimonio segreto (The Secret Marriage) composed for Austrian emperor Leopold II. Other hits include L’impegno superato (‘The Broken Engagement’), an instant success and soon to become one of the most frequently performed of Cimarosa’s comic works, and Penelope that was produced as far away as London in 1817. The Cantata per Ferdinando IV was, however, written as an act of repentance, Cimarosa having made the mistake of backing the failed republican government in 1799.
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