(2019) Boccherini, Franchomme Rossini & Servais: Virtuoso Music for cello and strings Jean Françaix Tonbilder [tone poems] is a

Tonbilder [tone poems] is a collection of twelve previous compositions in well-established genres

he produced a considerable body of work in which the organ is of course favoured

Leonard Slatkin

including some of his most beautiful concertos

Valentina Svyatlovskaya

(2019) Boccherini, Franchomme Rossini & Servais: Virtuoso Music for cello and strings Jean Françaix Tonbilder [tone poems] is aDerived from the viole da braccio family rather than that of the viols, the cello gained its independence in the Cremona cradle of Italian instrument making between the 16th and early 18th century. It adopted the shape of a large violin so large that it cannot rest on the shoulder like a violin or viola and is therefore held between the legs; an adjustable pin planted in the ground was added from the middle of the 19th century to make it more stable