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Omaggio a Heifetz: Accardo, Manzini

Fonè  196 SACD

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Chamber

Omaggio a Heifetz

Salvatore Accardo (violin)
Laura Manzini (piano)

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Works (18)

• Isaac Albéniz: Suite española No. 1 (8), Op. 47 No. 3 Sevilla
• Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Variations on Il barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini)
• Claude Debussy: Beau soir, L 6
• Pietro della Valle: Preludio XV
• George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (1935) My Man's Gone Now
• George Gershwin: Preludes (3), (1926) No. 2
• Alexander Glazunov: Meditation, Op. 32
• Charles-Francois Gounod: Ave maria, CG 89d
• Ernesto Halffter: Sonatina for Violin and Piano
• Jascha Heifitz: Albéniz: Sevilla
• Jascha Heifitz: Debussy: Beau soir
• Clarence Lucas: Mendelssohn: Hear My Prayer
• Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Hear My Prayer, WoO 15 'O for the Wings of a Dove'
• Francis Poulenc: Presto in B flat major, FP 70
• Serge Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64bis Suite No. 1
• Serge Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33bis Suite
• Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: The Tale of Tsar Sultan (1899-1900) Flight of the Bumblebee
• Robert Russell Bennett: Slow and Lonely