Anicio Giustiniani Zorzi * Pergolesi: L'olimpiade [New CD] Rare " Centering around piano

" Centering around piano

2 Szene mit Chor / Scene with chorus

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a quote from Leadbelly who I listened to incessantly as a kid

Brief Candles

Anicio Giustiniani Zorzi * Pergolesi: L'olimpiade [New CD] Rare " Centering around pianoMore than 60 composers have set Metastasio's libretto to music, including Caldara, Vivaldi, Hasse, Leo, Scarlatti, Piccinni, Paisiello, Cherubini and, of course, Pergolesi, who presented his Olimpiade at the Teatro Tordinona in Rome for the Carnival season of 1735. It was to be last his opera seria, as the composer died the very next year, just after he turned twenty six. His version is considered by many to be the most inspired of all, characterised