Romanza

Romanza MSR Classics ROMANZA is the second disc in the long term recording and commissioning project directed by Nadina Mackie Jackson and Guy Few with the Toronto Chamber Orchestra, pairing double concerti with solo concerti for trumpet and bassoon. The title of this recording is inspired by the lyrical slow movements that figure in each of these nineteenth century concerti for trumpet, bassoon, corno and orchestra.

Courtly yet amiable, the romanza frequently followed a rondo pattern and was the perfect vehicle for the wind virtuosi of the nineteenth century, players demonstrably capable of delicately persuasive expression and dazzling flights of fingers. Track Listing Johann Nepomuk Hummel: Concerto for Trumpet and Orchestra in E-flat major Hummel: Grand Concerto for Bassoon & Orchestra in G major Ignaz Lachner: Concertino in E Flat major for Corno, Bassoon and Orchestra, Op. 43 Carl Maria von Weber: Andante and Hungarian Rondo for Bassoon and Orchestra, Op. 35

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