Alessandro Marangoni - Rossini: Peches De Vieillesse

Rossini's operas have remained amongst the most popular in the repertoire but over the last decade of his life he turned largely to piano music. The P�ch�s de vieillesse (Sins of Old Age) occupy thirteen volumes, and the deliciously informal and comic fourth is called Quatre hors d'oeuvres et quatre mendicants. Its theme is food, and Rossini lavishes all his abundant abilities of characterisation in his descriptive passages, not least the introduction of a parakeet.