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Six Sonatas for Strings.
Rossini: Six Sonatas for Strings. Antonio Janigro, I Solisti di Zagreb. Vanguard Classics SVC-144.
Here is one of my favorite old groups, I Solisti di Zagreb, performing the ever-delightful Sonatas for Strings by Gioacchino Rossini. I could hardly recommend a set of performances more highly.
Rossini claimed much later in life that he wrote the six little sonatas for string orchestra when he was 12 years old and knowing next to nothing about musical composition. Some people take him at his word; others think the old man was embroidering his youth or just plain kidding around. In any event, Rossini did rearrange the works for string quartet some time afterwards, but these chamber orchestra versions, discovered in the mid-20th century, are the ones we usually hears nowadays. They are charming in every way, displaying the vigor and zest of youth with lovely, tranquil interludes. Of the various recordings available, only Marriner on Decca and I ...
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