Sebastiani: Fantasie d'opera per clarinetto e pianoforte Aldo Botta & Giuseppe Galiano

• Ferdinando Sebastiani (1803 - 1860): Fantasia (After Bellini's "La sonnambula"):
• 1 Sebastiani: Fantasia (After Bellini's "La sonnambula") 11:18
• Scherzo (After Verdi's "Il trovatore"):
• 2 Sebastiani: Scherzo (After Verdi's "Il trovatore") 12:31
• Fantasia variata (After Bellini's "Norma"):
• 3 Sebastiani: Fantasia variata (After Bellini's "Norma") 13:13
• Scherzo (After Verdi's "La traviata"):
• 4 Sebastiani: Scherzo (After Verdi's "La traviata") 05:20
• Fantasia (After Rossini's "Semiramide"):
• 5 Sebastiani: Fantasia (After Rossini's "Semiramide") 10:13
• Total Runtime 52:35

Info for Sebastiani: Fantasie d'opera per clarinetto e pianoforte

The Italian 19th Century is characterized by an unparalleled opera bulimia, the theaters tirelessly program stagings to be submitted to the perennial abstinents of “belcanto” and the music publishing industry that revolves around the phenomenon flourishes and gears up to not disappoint the fleets of music lovers. This inexhaustible desire is counterbalanced by the other “case” represented by the nascent idolatry for instrument virtuosos who build around themselves a legendary aura - very closed to the configuration of the romantic hero with a fascinating and mysterious biography - and an adequate literature to inflame the delirious audiences. The relapse of similar “obsessions” has an extraordinary confirmation in the salon and academic consumption of pages intended to “evoke” the emotions felt in crowded theater halls, a secular celebration is consumed between more or less prestigious salons aimed at the beloved entertainment between the promotion of young talents, noble amateurs, damsels to marry, prestigious guests. The work of Ferdinando Sebastiani, one of the most accredited clarinetist of the nineteenth century and founder of a recognized “school” which enjoyed great prestige in the national and international context, fits into this so articulated landscape. Aldo Botta on the clarinet and Giuseppe Galiano on the piano try their hand at this fascinating challenge in the name of a funambolic virtuosity and a marked theatrical expressiveness.

Aldo Botta, clarinet
Giuseppe Galiano, piano

Aldo Botta
Born in 1994, he began studying the clarinet under the guidance of his father Renato and Maestro Giovanni D'Auria. He graduated with top marks and honours from the 'D. Cimarosa' Conservatory of Music in Avellino under the guidance of Maestro Antonio Napolitano. He specialised with Maestro Calogero Palermo, his lifelong mentor.

He has taken part in orchestral training courses at the JuniOrchestra of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Youth Orchestra of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome and the Orchestra Academy of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, with workshop-lessons held by the orchestra's first parts. A winner of numerous national and international competitions from a very young age, he has played for RAI television on several occasions both as a soloist and as an orchestral player.

He has collaborated with the orchestras of the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Filarmonica del Teatro Comunale in Bologna, 'LaFil' Philharmonic Orchestra of Milan, Orchestra Filarmonica Salernitana of Teatro Verdi in Salerno, Teatro Gesualdo in Avellino, Orchestra L. Cherubini, Orchestra Internazionale della Campania, Plovdiv Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestra Bulgaria Classic, where he had the opportunity to play with conductors such as R. Muti, Z. Mehta, Y. Abel, J. Bernacer, F. I. Ciampa, M. Boni, R. Abbado, L. Quadrini, P. Nuzzo, N. Paszkowski, M. Seco, A. Pantaneschi, S. Genuini, A. Lonquich, F. Mildenberger, V. Sinaisky, L. Hager, F. Petrac ...

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