Par TOSTI FRANCESCO PAOLO. This unique and exciting series gives you the chance to learn some of the greatest songs of Francesco Tosti with full orchestral backing tracks. A selectionof operatic showstoppers have been presented in full notation with concert accompaniments for Piano. Furthermore, a professionally recorded CD is included that features the full-scale orchestral arrangement of each ar…

Par MARCHETTINI PAOLO. I always considered the fugue the most perfect and pure of all musical forms. The possibility to build an entire piece of music from only one main idea represented an intriguing challenge for composers from different times. With this work, which I consider as a whole, I wanted to pay homage to this old, and beloved, form. I tried to infuse it with my personal view, hoping to…

Vocal score based on the critical edition of the orchestral score edited by Paolo Fabbri, 2 volumes. Donizetti's Anna Bolena premiered at Milano's Teatro Carcano during Carnival season 1830-31 is considered the composer's first major success in serious opera, which brought him to the attention of all Europe. In terms of production, in Italy he was an anomaly, in that he remained actively involved …

Par HAENDEL GEORG FRIEDRICH. When the librettist Paolo Rolli and George Frideric Handel composed an Italian opera about Scipio's conquest of the Iberian port city of Carthago Nova in 1726, these events from 209 BC were already almost two thousand years in the past. Research on the critical edition of the opera “Scipione” in the Halle Handel Edition suggests that the librettist and composer had so…