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The Italian Collection, Volume 1
[br0025]

This CD brings back into the light concertos by talented composers Viotti and Platti. Viotti’s masterpiece is said to be a reworked violin concerto by Daniel Steibelt and the two Platti concertos curiously lay gathering dust for around 200 years.

Giovanni Viotti - Piano Concerto in G minor
Felicja Blumental - piano
Alberto Zedda- conductor
Torino Symphony Orchestra

• Allegro maestoso (18'49)
• Adagio non troppo (8'19)
• Rondo (11'59)

• Allegro assai (5'07)
• Largo (5'42)
• Allegro assai (5'14)

Giovanni Benedetto Platti - Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor
Felicja Blumental - piano
Theodore Guschlbauer - conductor
Salzburg Symphony Orchestra

• Andantino molto mosso (4'46)
• Adagio (4'34)
• Allegro (2'46)

Total running time (66'35)

Liner Notes:

The Italian Collection, Volume 1

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