Rossini’s operas have remained amongst the most popular in the repertoire but over the last decade of his life he turned largely to piano music. The Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age) occupy thirteen volumes, and the deliciously informal and comic fourth is called Quatre hors d’oeuvres et quatre mendiants. Its theme is food, and Rossini lavishes all his abundant abilities of characterisation in his descriptive passages, not least the introduction of a parakeet.
Rossini: Peches de vieillesse, Vol. 10: 'Miscellanee pour piano' Rossini: Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. 14, Altri péchés de vieillesse Rossini: Peches de vieillesse, Vol. 4: 'Quatre hors d'oeuvres et quatre mendiants' Rossini: Péchés de vieillesse: Vol. 6, Album pour les enfants dégourdis Rossini: Quatre Hors d'oeuvres Rossini: Sins of Old Age Rossini: Valser in E flat major Groups & Artists Marangoni, Alessandro
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