Musical Output
Zappa composed symphonies, trios, sonatas, divertimenti and songs, but nothing more of his output has been transmitted.
1984 brought "His First Digital Recording in over 200 Years," as Frank Zappa performed Francesco Zappa's Opus 1 trios and Opus 4 sonatas on Synclavier and released the resulting album on CD and LP. While assumed by many to have been related, Frank Zappa stated in his biography, The Real Frank Zappa Book, that in fact they were not.
There is a new recording of two of Francesco Zappa's symphonies with the New Dutch Academy directed by Simon Murphy; PentaTone Classics PTC 5186 365, released in 2009. The recording features American Baroque cellist Caroline Kang in the solo role in Zappa's "cello symphonies".
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