Rossini: Excerpts from Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. 7 Alessandro Marangoni

• Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868): Complete Piano Music Vol. 7
• 1 No. 1. Quartettino, I gondolieri 05:23
• 2 No. 12. Quartettino, La passeggiata 06:19
• 3 Andantino mosso 00:36
• 4 No. 1. Toast pour le nouvel an 03:08
• 5 No. 6. La notte del Santo Natale 06:18
• 6 No. 12. Choeur de chasseurs democrates 03:44
• From Vol XIV
• 7 No. 3. Canzonetta, La Venitienne 05:58
• From Vol. III: Morceaux réservés
• 8 No. 1. Choeur, Chant funebre a Meyerbeer 03:47
• 9 No. 4. Ave Maria 06:04
• 10 No. 6. Le chant des Titans 04:01
• 11 No. 10. Cantemus 02:12
• 12 No. 12. Tyrolienne sentimentale, Le depart des promis 02:59
• From Vol X: Miscellanée pour piano
• 13 No. 1. Prelude blagueur 07:12
• 14 No. 2. Des tritons s'il vous plait [montee-descente] 01:27
• 15 No. 3. Petite pensee 02:10
• 16 No. 6. Petit caprice [style Offenbach] 02:35
• From Vol XI: Miscellanée de musique vocale
• 17 No. 8. Il candore in fuga 02:41
• From Vol XIV: other Péchés de vieillesse
• 18 No. 2. Canon antisavant a 3 voix, Vive l'empereur 00:42
• 19 No. 1. Canone perpetuo, Or che s'oscura il ciel 02:02
• 20 No. 11. Cianciafruscola musicale, Brindisi 01:51
• From Vol. III: Morceaux réservés
• 21 No. 7. Preghiera 04:41
• From Vol. XI: Miscellanée de musique vocale
• 22 No. 9. Salve amabilis Maria, Hymne a la musique 02:36
• Total Runtime 01:18:26

Info for Rossini: Excerpts from Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. 7

Volume 7 of Rossini’s complete piano music, Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), ranges across six of the fourteen albums to include works for both solo piano and for piano and voices. Two of the pieces – Andantino mosso (track 3), recently discovered in manuscript, and La notte di Santo Natale (track 5) receive their first recording. ‘Alessandro Marangoni sounds completely at home... and he presents the music with style, good humour and no mean virtuosity’ (MusicWeb International on 8.573107 / Volume 6).

Alessandro Marangoni, piano, organ
Ars Cantica Consort
Ars Cantica Choir
Marco Berrini, conductor

Alessandro Marangoni
was born in Italy in 1979. He studied piano with Marco Vincenzi, obtaining the diploma with honours (summa cum laude) and he continued his studies at the 'Scuola di Musica di Fiesole' with Maria Tipo and Pietro De Maria. Besides his musical studies he also obtained a graduated with honours in philosophy at the 'Università di Pavia' with a thesis about Fernando Liuzzi's philosophy of music. He was also a merit student of the Almo Collegio Borromeo, one of the most ancient and important European colleges.

After winning several national and international awards, Alessandro has appeared in many important musical events in Europe, both as a soloist and as a chamber musician. His most recent performances were in Florence (Accademia della Crusca), Lucca (Associazione Musicale Lucchese), Ischia (the Walton Foundation), Cittadella in Assisi, as well as at the Engadiner Internationale Kammermusik-Festspiele, Sagra Musicale Umbra, the Italian Cultural Institute in London, the 'Teatro Dal Verme', Milan, the Saint John's College, Cambridge.

La Bottega Discanticas a chamber musician he collaborated with some of the most important Italian musical personalities and groups, including Mario Ancillotti, Vittorio Ceccanti, Fanny Clamagirand, Daria Masiero, Stefano Parrino, Quirino Principe, Carlo Zardo and the Nuovo Quartetto Italiano. He played with great success of public and critics in Spain with the Malaga Philharmonic Orchestra and in Bratislava with Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by the great Italian conductor Aldo Ceccato. He has recently started an artistic cooperation with the Italian actress Valentina Cortese. He plays the piano for the Trio Albatros Ensemble, with whom he has won a relevant acclaim and an enthusiastic appraisal all over the world. Composers such as B. Bettinelli, L. Chailly, G. Gaslini, F. E. Scogna, I. Fedele, have written works for the Ensemble.

In 2007 Alessandro has recorded a CD (La Bottega Discantica) with the piano works written by Victor de Sabata, for the 40th anniversary of his death, that he will play in important venues like Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro “G. Verdi” in Trieste and Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. He is recording the complete piano works by Rossini (Pechès de vieillesse) for Naxos. In 2007 he won the prestigious “Amici di Milano” International Prize for the Music.

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