Franco Cesarini

The variation form is one of the oldest and most fundamental forms of musical technique. Franco Cesarini has chosen the well known French folk melody, Sur le pont d'Avignon as the basis for this piece...

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...

American author Mark Twain spent seven years writing Huckleberry Finn - the book Hemingway claimed is the basis for all American fiction. The story of Huck's and Jim's quest for freedom on a raft on t...

Tras el gran éxito de la «Suite de canciones populares griegas», que lleva más de veinte años en el candelero, Franco Cesarini vuelve a explorar la larga y rica tradición de la música folclórica grieg...

Giuseppe Verdi is one of the most famous composers of Italian opera. Here, Cesarini has masterfully arranged Nabucco.

Often, individual parts of operas become very successful, independent instrumental pieces. An outstanding example is the Anvil Chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore. Thanks to its symphonic...

Often, individual parts of operas become very successful, independent instrumental pieces. An outstanding example is the Anvil Chorus from Giuseppe Verdi's opera Il Trovatore. Thanks to its symphonic...

The Gran Finale from the second act of Verdi's famous opera Aida, composed in 1869, is a complex part of the drama as in one single scene many different characters, allwith contrasting emotions, appea...

The Barber of Seville is based on the first of Beaumarchais' (1732- 1799) two sequential plays, The Marriage of Figaro being the second, although unusually the overture does not contain any themes fro...

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...

Camillo De Nardis' Il giudizio universale (The Universal Judgement) was awarded first prize at the Competition for Band Composition held in Naples. This composition was inspired by Verdi's Requiem wit...

The title refers to the historical period that marked the transition between the baroque and classical styles. Rococo music is characterised by a profusion of ornaments, by graceful elegance and light...

Franz Liszt's 19 Hungarian Rhapsodies are characterised by melancholy, great expressiveness and wonderful gypsy rhythms. No. 2 is the best known of all, mainly thanks to the use of various passages fo...

The Passacaglia is a set of instrumental variations based on an ostinato bass. Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C-minor for organ represents the pinnacle of what had been achieved in this compositional...

The Passacaglia is a set of instrumental variations based on an ostinato bass. Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C-minor for organ represents the pinnacle of what had been achieved in this compositional...

Viennese Fanfare by Richard Strauss, a shorter version of Festmusik der Stadt Wien, originally composed for ten trumpets, seven trombones, two tubas and timpani, was the basis of Franco Cesarini's arr...

Viennese Fanfare by Richard Strauss, a shorter version of Festmusik der Stadt Wien, originally composed for ten trumpets, seven trombones, two tubas and timpani, was the basis of Franco Cesarini's arr...

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) was a German opera composer of Jewish origin, described as perhaps the most successful stage composer of the 19th century. He remained a dominant figure in the world of o...

Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791-1864) was a German opera composer of Jewish origin, described as perhaps the most successful stage composer of the 19th century. He remained a dominant figure in the world of o...

César Franck, Komponist, Pianist, Organist und Musiklehrer schrieb Amor und Psyché, seine sechste und letzte symphonische Dichtung in 1887. Die Uraufführung fand 1888 in Paris statt und war ein großer...

César Franck, Komponist, Pianist, Organist und Musiklehrer schrieb Amor und Psyché, seine sechste und letzte symphonische Dichtung in 1887. Die Uraufführung fand 1888 in Paris statt und war ein großer...