DISCOGRAPHY
Francesco Zappa (1717 – 1803)
6 DUETS FOR VIOLIN AND CELLO
ALLA MANIERA ITALIANA ENSEMBLE
Giacomo Coletti, violin
Anna Camporini, cello
His six Duets for violin and cello, published in Paris and presented here, sound like a polite parlour conversation. If Zappa chooses a classical gallant style, his music is never superficial, and he clearly proves a first-rate composer whose unmistakable trait is his Italian melodiousness.
Francesco Pasquale Ricci (1732- 1817)
SIX STRING QUARTETS OP. VIII
ALLA MANIERA ITALIANA ENSEMBLE
Giacomo Coletti, first violin
Alessandro Pensa, second violin
Clelia Gozzo, alto
Anna Camporini, cello
Giovanni Paganelli, harpsichord
In cooperation with ARCHIVIO DELLA SINFONIA MILANESE
Mozart defined it as a Minor light inside the European musical panorama. However the Galant style of F.P. Ricci had great success still around the 1770, reasserting an Italian way of understanding music.
