Even 50 years ago, Rossini's operas were regarded as fun but lightweight, and his piano music was all but unknown. Wagner's self-aggrandizement was to blame for the former state of affairs, and a more general dourness for the latter (High Modernism, to borrow a phrase from Sarah Silverman, tended to resent all laughter). How things have changed in a satire-minded time! The booklet for this inaugural double disc in a new series devoted to Rossini's complete piano music comes very close to dividing the composer's career into ...
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Even 50 years ago, Rossini's operas were regarded as fun but lightweight, and his piano music was all but unknown. Wagner's self-aggrandizement was to blame for the former state of affairs, and a more general dourness for the latter (High Modernism, to borrow a phrase from Sarah Silverman, tended to resent all laughter). How things have changed in a satire-minded time! The booklet for this inaugural double disc in a new series devoted to Rossini's complete piano music comes very close to dividing the composer's career into two halves of equal weight, and the buyer interested in the Péchés de viellesse (Sins of Old Age) can choose from several complete sets and excerpts, including "authentic" versions on pianos from Rossini's time. The acid test for performances of these pieces is the ability to tell a tall tale in music, to sustain a humorous conceit over structures that are in some cases fairly broad. A few of Rossini's piano pieces, like the Petite polka chinoise (Little Chinese Polka, track 3),...
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