Paul Agricole Génin: Opera Fantasies For Flute And Piano – Elena Cecconi

This Da Vinci Classics album offers a fascinating perspective on the output of Paul-Agricole Génin, a nineteenth-century French composer who was among the pioneers of the new performing techniques due to the innovations brought to flute-making by Théodore Böhm. Many of his works display the full range of the flute’s technical possibilities, and take as their starting point famous melodies and tunes excerpted, in the main, from the operatic repertoire of French and Italian contemporaneous music. Thus, paraphrases, fantasies and potpourris after composers such as Verdi and Mozart, Rossini and Gounod, but also transcriptions after Schubert, offer us an intriguing itinerary among beloved arias, revisited for the flute.