Classical Music

Classical Music

� A 2011 concert performance by Italian mezzosoprano Sonia Ganassi singing French arias of Bizet, Gounod, Massenet, and others. � Conductor Carla Delfrate leads the Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana. � Recipient of the Italian Abbiati prize in 1999, Ms. Ganassi has appeared in many of the world's major opera houses, and is scheduled to appear with the Vienna State Opera as Jane Seymour in Donizetti's Anna Bolena during the 2013/14 season.

The pianist Sandro Baldi presents these seminal piano works of Debussy and the release includes two different periods in Debussy's development. The first more youthful and still imbued with a certain romanticism in some aspects, and then from the peak of his maturity as Debussy reached the apex of his artistic and compositional mastery. Thus this release presents a rare occasion for a full immersion in Debussy, observed from a double angle that is fascinating in itself, but also revealing how his arc of his genius. Gifted from his early years with a preternatural and keen understanding of writing for the piano, this CD displays Debussy's prodigious gifts in full display as rendered by Baldi's sensitive playing.

The Neapolitan pianist and composer Maria Gabriella Mariani, following her studies and competition successes, performed in major concert houses in Italy and Europe more broadly, to both critical and public acclaim. She first began improvising as a child and, recently, has also demonstrated this aspect of her creativity in concert. Her compositions are generally conceived for piano solo, or piano with other instruments and voice. Her ability to instill emotional continuity with the listener has been noted. “Secure, imaginative, very artistic, never predictable.” - Martha Argerich

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Classical Music

Starring Fiorenza Cedolins.