COMPANY: Naxos
ARTIST: Emmanuele Baldini
CATEGORY: CD
COMPOSER: Marco Bossi

Product: 747313451579

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Bossi: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1 and 2

Emmanuele Baldini (violin), Luca Delle Donne (piano)

Marco Enrico Bossi achieved fame as one of the most influential Italian organ virtuosos of his time and as a composer who helped to lay the foundations for a new tradition of instrumental music in a country dominated by opera. Bossi's first violin sonata has cyclical forms and a density of ideas that puts it on a par with the famous sonata by César Franck, with melodies as expressive as those of Rachmaninov. The second violin sonata is reminiscent of a classical style that refers more to Beethoven and Brahms and at the same time shows the eloquence of Bossi's personal idiom. Both works reveal a composer whose chamber music is in no way inferior to the most famous works of the late 19th century. Marco Enrico Bossi is best known as a composer for the organ, and his works in this genre are quite well represented in recordings, including a Naxos release (8572177) of the Concert Piece in C minor and other works that the American Record Guide calls "a good introduction to Bossi's style."

Marco Enrico Bossi (1861-1925)