ROSSINI

Instrumental Music

 

1 La Scala di seta - Overture

Dudu Carmel – oboe

2 Serenata per piccolo compresso

Violetta Eckhardt - violin

Dudu Carmel - oboe

Erika Sebök - flute

Balázs Kovács - English horn

György Kertész – cello

3-5 String Sonata in G major

Zsolt Fejérvári - double bass

6 Le Rendez-vous de chasse

Mikós Nagy, András Szabó, Dávid Bereczky,

Zsombor Nagy – horns

7 Variazioni a più strumenti obbligati

József Lendvay - violin

György Porzsolt - viola

Gabriella Pivon - flute

Péter Szabó - cello

Ákos Ács – clarinet

8 Andante, e Tema con Variazioni per

quattro strumenti a fiato

Gabriella Pivon - flute

Ákos Ács - clarinet

 

Budapest Festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer

 

Rossini was a genius, especially as a melody-composer. His instrumental music is like colourful opera arias or ensembles without words. To perform these melodies one needs to declamate, articulate and characterize like actors on stage. And of course one needs to have a brilliant, fast tongue and fast fingers. Italians talk fast with beautiful diction, especially in a heated discussion. It has been great fun to record this music with members of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, where it is our aim to offer creative opportunities for individual members. I believe that this music needs clarity of sound: like that of the dry but transparent Italian theatres, sparkling of vitality.

Ivan Fischer

 

Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra give us a brilliantly realized Beethoven 7th; I can't really say that I've ever heard anything by this orchestra and conductor that I wasn't thoroughly impressed with. As usual, Channel Classics provides a spectacular Meitner/Pyramix-based DSD recording, and the sound is absolutely to die for.

Audiophile Audition

 

Channel Classics SACD CCSSA27708