ANTONIO BUZZOLLA: La Gondola (Venetian Folks Songs and Arias) [CD de audio] Lorenzo Regazzo(bajo-barítono), Dimitri Romano(pian

In the fashionable circles of late 19th century musical Venice, it was a source of pride that among the small number of performances that the great Gioachino Rossini gave at his house in Passy, canzonettas by Antonio Buzzolla were always performed. Buzzolla was then, as now, known as an inspired composer of ariettas in the Venetian dialect. But he also composed two early operas, he was Kapellmeister of the Chapel of San Marco when he wrote a Requiem for Rossini. But his main legacy is seven collections of Venetian ariettas and canzonettas, in total about 80 works. These are the cream of their genre: dialect songs inspired by the barcarolas of the gondoliers of Venice, this enchanted and fantastic place that, especially in the late romantic period, was a ghost hunt for Liszt's dark gondolas. With this album of Venetian songs, most of them recorded for the first time, Lorenzo Regazzo wishes to excite a wider audience with these little-known and underrated gems of vocal chamber music and herald a renaissance of Buzzolla music.