L'800 per flauto e pianoforte Michele Marasco, flute Folco Vichi, pianoforte

The programme of this recording offers an assay of the production of chamber and drawing-room music composed between the the second and third decades of the XIXth century or, more specifically, from 1817 until 1829. The authors presented belong to different cultures and generations, ranging from composers of the Germanic area such as Beethoven and Schubert in the age of their maturity, to the young Chopin, to Rossini at the end of his career as composer of operas. As you will note, the selection sufficiently varies to provide a panoramic picture of the different styles and trends in composing. Another motive of interest is represented by the formal typology of the pieces which all adopt the structure of Varaitions. A typology which in the XIXth century, recurs both in serious chamber music and in the lighter, drawing-room music. Typical of the latter, is theme selection from the arias of then fashionable melodramas and the possibility to interchange instruments. In this sense, draws from operas by Rossini; the Beethoven piece is for flute or violin, while that of Rossini is for clarinet or violin or flute. In the works of all four composers mentioned, we can thus recognise several prominent features of a drawing-room type creation.

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