Briccialdi - Flute Concertos Release:Flute Concertos Brilliant Classics His low-key vocal on The

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having both virtuosic and didactic purposes in mind

and these organ works share the extrovert quality and awareness of contemporary developments demonstrated by Neapolitan composers which would in due course come to make the city known as the 'conservatoire of Europe'

the full story below by band leader Mark Beiner

Briccialdi - Flute Concertos Release:Flute Concertos Brilliant Classics His low-key vocal on TheThis 2008 recording has been reissued to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giulio Briccialdi. As a principal flautist in the major opera orchestras of Italy and across Europe, Briccialdi attracted renown not only for his performing virtuosity but also his ability to exploit and stimulate the rapid technical evolution of his instrument. Although he wrote an opera and a symphony, his legacy as a composer rests upon his works for his own