Album release: Rita Costanzi releases Amoroso for harp and oboe
Amoroso
Alex Klein, oboe | Rita Costanzi, harp
Few instruments are as viscerally associated with the idea of grace and beauty as the harp, and few are as apt to express a sense of yearning as the oboe. So what could possibly capture the feeling of love better than a duo composed of these two instruments? Possibly nothing, as harpist Rita Costanzi and oboist Alex Klein rivetingly demonstrate on AMOROSO, an archetypally romantic album of intimate chamber music. Well-known classics by Debussy, Fauré, Massenet, Rachmaninoff, Piazzolla, and Rodrigo shine in a new light, and two new, fittingly romantic pieces by contemporary composers Michael Cohen and Michael Amorosi perfectly complete this wonderful picture.
Podcast
Rita Costanzi joins Jim Cunningham, Manager of WQED – FM Classical Music Radio in Pittsburgh to discuss AMOROSO.
