GIOACHINO ROSSINI (1792-1868): Il Salotto, Vol. 13 - Danse Sibérienne for Piano, Songs: Le Sylvain, Le Dodo des enfants, La Chanson du bébé, Au Chevet d'un mourant, Ariette villageoise, L'Esule, À Grenade, Addio ai viennesi, Chanson de Zora, Duets: Les Amants de Séville, Soupires et sourire, Le Déparat des promis, Chorus: Le Chant des Titans, Preghiera, Toast pour le nouvel an, Quartet: Ridiamo, cantiamo che tutto sen va, Bass and Choir: La notte del Santo Natale.

Description: ll but three of these songs come from the neglected part of Rossini's "Sins of Old Age" - the vocal works. Two date from the 1820s and another from the same period as the "Sins" but not part of them. Set up like Hyperion's song-cycle booklets, with notes preceding each song's texts, this will delight both Rossini fans in particular and collectors of the Il Salotto series in general. French, Italian-English texts. Mireille Delunsch (soprano), Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Jennifer Larmore (mezzos), Lawrence Brownlee, Mark Wilde (tenors), Brindley Sherratt (bass), Geoffrey Mitchell Choir, Nicholas Bosworth (harmonium), Malcolm Martineau (piano).