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...
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...
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...
In his 1st flute quartet, Swiss composer Franco Cesarini (born in 1961) is mainly trying to combine musical and didactic contents. In the progress of its musical development, the harmonic dissonances...
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...
Il tema principale di questa ouverture si basa su un'antica canzone indiana della tribù degli Arapaho. Il nome Colorado deriva dalla parola spagnola che significa "colorato". Questo termine era origin...
Franco Cesarini has used four anonymous renaissance pieces as the basis for this four-movement composition, and, by exploiting the many colours of the brass band, he has recreated the atmosphere of th...
Questi "quadri di città" non vogliono tanto evocare immagini visive, quanto piuttosto un quadro d'atmosfera di una grande città moderna. La musica riflette gli stati d'animo della vita contemporanea e...