Six Sonatas for Strings.

From: Sensible Sound | Date: August 1, 2001| Author: | Copyright information

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 ...

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