Briccialdi Flute Concertos

Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer, Google Play): Also available for licensing: More Information: Composer: Giulio Briccialdi Artists: Ginevra Petrucci (flute) I Virtuosi Italiani First recordings of four Romantic concertos by a Paganini of the flute. This 2008 recording has been reissued to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Giulio Briccialdi (1818-1881). As a principal flautist in the major opera orchestras of Italy and across Europe, Briccialdi attracted renown not only for his performing virtuosity but also his ability to exploit and stimulate the rapid technical evolution of his instrument. A new flute was invented for him by Boehm and named after him. Further technical innovations were made in flute-manufacture at his instigation by Emilio Piana in Florence, where he was flute