Composer: Gioacchino Antonio Rossini
Performer: Alessandro Marangoni
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8570766
Release: 2009
Size: 242 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Péchés de vieillesse, Vol. 6, Album pour les enfants dégourdis
01. No. 1, Mon prelude hygienique du matin
02. No. 2, Prelude baroque
03. No. 3, Memento homo
04. No. 4, Assez de memento: Dansons
05. No. 5, La pesarese
06. No. 6, Valse torturee
07. No. 7, Une caresse a ma femme
08. No. 8, Barcarole
09. No. 9, Un petit train de plaisir comico-imitatif
10. No. 10, Fausse couche de polka mazurka
11. No. 12, Un enterrement en Carnaval
Rossini spent his final years in Paris where he wrote numerous short piano pieces arranged in 13 volumes, which he jokingly called Péchés de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age), that juxtapose irreverence and seriousness.
Volume VI, Album for Smart Children, includes diverse movements whose titles, whether ironic or deeply sincere, reflect their stylistic range. The eleventh (Étude asthmatique) will be included in a future album.
Alessandro Marangoni’s highly praised recording of Volumes VII & IX is available on Naxos 8570590-91.