Mercadante: Chamber Music for Flute Brilliant Classics

Composer: Saverio Mercadante Artists: Gian-Luca Petrucci (flute) Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): More Information: A unique compilation of chamber music in new recordings to celebrate the diverse legacy of a noted Italian impresario, a century and a half after his death. At the time of his death in 1870, Saverio Mercadante was known as a director and administrator first and foremost, who had steered opera houses and then conservatoires through choppy waters at an especially eventful time in Italian political history, rising to become the dominant figure in the musical culture of mid-19th century Naples. Secondly, he was acknowledged as an opera composer of distinction and fluency, if not ranked on the level of lyric geniuses such as Rossini and Bellini. A stroke in 1862 left Mercadant