Opera Fantasies for Violin, Vol. 2
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.8573403

By Benjamin Loeb, Geoff Nuttall, and Livia Sohn. By Bohuslav Martinu, Christoph Wilibald Gluck, Daron Hagen, George Frideric Handel, Giuseppe Verdi, Jeno Hubay, Jonathan Berger, Pablo de Sarasate, and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Classical. Listening CD. Published by Naxos (NX.8573403).

UPC: 747313340378.

At a time when there were limited opportunities to attend the opera house, and before the existence of recordings, the operatic fantasy proved a popular and ingenious way to spend great melodies to a wider audience. Some classics of this genre are heard in this second volume - not least Wilhelmj's arrangement of Handel and Kreisler's beautifully tranquil arrangement of Gluck - but there are also memorable examples from Verdi and Hubay's piquant opera Le Luthier de Cremone, as well as two vivid contemporary examples that continue the genre into the twenty-first century.

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