RARE VINTAGE CLASSICAL SYMPHONIC MUSIC FROM GAETANO DONIZETTI Biography by Steven Coburn Gaetano Donizetti was among the most important composers of bel canto opera in both Italian and French in the first half of the nineteenth Century. Many of Donizetti's more than 60 operas are still part of the modern repertoire and continue to challenge singers for their musical and technical demands. Donizetti stands stylistically between Rossini and Verdi; his scenes are usually more expanded in structure than those of Rossini, but he never blurred the lines between set pieces and recitative as Verdi did in his middle-period and late works. Often compared to his contemporary, Bellini, Donizetti produced a wider variety of operas and showed a greater stylistic flexibility, even if he never quite achieved the sheer beauty of Bellini's greatest works. Five Overtures from Don Pasquale, Linda di Chamounix, Marin Faliero, Les Martyrs and Maria di Rohan performed by the National Orchestra of the Monte-Carlo Opera directed by Claudio Scimone Biography by Joseph Stevenson Claudio Scimone is one of the international leaders of the chamber music and early music movements. He studied with Dimitri Mitropoulos and Franco Ferrara, and also studied early music and interpretation. In 1959, he formed the chamber orchestra I Solisti Veneti in Padua and has remained associated with it ever since. It quickly achieved a reputation for excellence, and in 1975, Scimone took the orchestra for its first appearance at the annual Salzburg Festival in Austria, only to be invited back every year since. He has also led the orchestra on several world tours, appearing in 60 countries. Although the orchestra specializes in early music, Scimone has also been instrumental in commissioning works by Cristobal Halffter, Franco Donatoni, Marius Constant, and Sylvanno Bussotti, among others. THE MUSICAL HERITAGE SOCIETY STEREO MHS 4225 SLEEVE IS IN GOOD CONDITION - LP IS IN EXCELLENT CONDITION

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