Vincenzo Bellini: Oboe Concerto, Es dur, Francesco Quaranta (oboe)

Vincenzo Bellini: Oboe Concerto Es-dur, Francesco Quaranta – oboe, Konzertensemble Salzburg, Alberto Veronesi (conductor) e deciso --- . Allegro polonese. Vincenzo Salvatore Carmelo Francesco Bellini (3 November 1801 – 23 September 1835) was an Italian opera composer, who was known for his long-flowing melodic lines for which he was named “the Swan of Catania“. Born in Catania, at the time part of the Kingdom of Sicily, the eldest of seven children in the family, he became a child prodigy within a highly musical family. The focus of his study (Conservatorio di San Sebastiano) was on the masters of the Neapolitan school and the orchestral works of Haydn and Mozart, with the emphasis put upon the Italian classical era composers such as Pergolesi and Paisiello, rather than the “modern-day“ approaches of composers such as Rossini. Bellini’s fame was closely bound up with the bel canto style of the great singers of his day. He was not a reformer, but he str