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Fiona Maddocks, Nicholas Kenyon and Stephen Pritchard The Observer, Sunday 14 June 2009 Article history |
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For a long time, the Venetian Baldassare Galuppi (1706-1785), born on the lace-making island of Burano, was only known to English speakers, if at all, because of Robert Browning's poem "A Toccata of Galuppi's". Now his time has come. One of his impressive operas, L'Olimpiade, has just been released on DVD (Dynamic 33545) and Italian pianist Andrea Bacchetti has recorded eight of the short, charming keyboard sonatas. These apparently simple works, played here with elegance and zest, work wonderfully on piano, rather than the more usual harpsichord. You can't help smiling when you listen. FM |
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