Gaetano Donizetti: Trio for Flute, Bassoon, and Piano, A. 507 (18XX)

00:00 - I. Larghetto
05:43 - II. Allegro
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Bassoon: Francesco Bossone
Flute: Carlo Tamponi
Piano: Stefano Micheletti
Year of Recording: 2012
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"This Trio by the great master of bel canto opera, Donizetti, is one of his few excursions into chamber music and was probably written for performance at one of the well-known salon concerts hosted by Lady Marianna Pezzoli Grattaroli in Bergamo, at which Donizetti often played the piano. Although Donizetti was still a student at the time, his style is already highly lyrical and operatic, and the unusual choice of flute and bassoon foretells his striking and original use of these instruments in his later orchestrations – the flute in the “Mad Scene” of Lucia di Lammermoor and the bassoon in the well-known aria Una Furtiva Lagrima from L’Elisir d’Amore." (Chamber Music NZ)
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