Within this album the Insolito 8cento duo (Angelo de Magistris, violin and Rosaria Dina Rizzo, piano) is rediscovering a little-known feature of the great bel canto master Gaetano Donizetti: his chamber works dedicated to the violin, an instrumental production little mentioned and often completely ignored. In fact Donizetti never ceased to deal with the composition of instrumental chamber music, giving life to brilliant works that, in the same way as for his vocal works, testify to his extraordinary creative vein in which one can recognise great inspiration, almost like a continuous improvisation, yet always refined and elegant as well as completely devoid of that formal negligence typical of the ‘utility music' or composed for mere exercise or pastime.