The last couple of years, Francesco Zappa has been put back in the spotlight.
In 2009, the Pentatone record label released "Zappa Symphonies", an album by the New Dutch Acadamy, cond. Simon Murphy, presenting 7 pieces by 18th century composers (and only one by Francesco Zappa).
A bit of a misleading title if you would ask me. I guess some people even ordered it thinking it would be an album with compositions by Frank Zappa, and not Francesco...
There's the 2021 "Francesco Zappa - Duette für Violine & Cello Nr.1-6" album by Giacomo Coletti and Anna Camporini, released on the Italian Urania record label.
And last year, another release on the Urania record label:
"Francesco Zappa - 6 Symphonies", by the Atalanta Fugiens Orchestra, cond. Vanni Moretto.
This one did mention Frank Zappa on the back cover:
In 1984 Frank Zappa released an album titled “Francesco Zappa”, unknowingly becoming the first contemporary interpreter of the work of this unknown Milanese author, and effectively marking the beginning of his rediscovery. It was an incredible fate that of Francesco Zappa who, after a long life of success and honors in the Dutch and German courts, died in poverty and even experienced a kind of ‘damnation memoriae’ due to the contempt shown to him by Leopold Mozart.
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