Antonino PASCULLI : Concerto per oboe e pianoforte su temi da “La favorita” di Donizetti – “Omaggio a Bellini” per corno inglese e arpa su temi da “Il Pirata” e “La Sonnambula” – Fantasia per oboe e pianoforte su temi da “Poliuto” di Donizetti – Le Api, Studio per oboe e pianoforte – Gran Concerto per oboe e pianoforte su temi da “I Vespri Siciliani” di Verdi.

Omar Zoboli, Oboe, English Horn – Antonio Ballista, Piano – Giuliana Albisetti, Harp.

The compositions published here were recorded in the Auditorium of the Radio Svizzera Italiana (RSI) in 1981, as a world première, and remastered in 2017.

Omar Zoboli got some of long presumed lost scores from his former teacher Heinz Holliger. He found more scores by researching the libraries of Italian Conservatories. 1985 he met two of Pasculli’s daughters, Laura and Concettina, in Palermo. On that occasion, the daughters bestowed further manuscripts as well as their father’s musical instruments on Zoboli, in appreciation of his remarkable dedication to Pasculli’s work.