19th Century Guitar Music

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Release Date: 24th Jun 2016
Catalogue No: 95024BR
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 66 minutes

Anelli: Guitar Sonatina

Work length6:35

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)

Giuliani, Mauro: Rossiniana No. 1, Op. 119

Work length15:14

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-9 February, 6-8 March 2016
Recording Venue: Studio Emme, Calenzano, Firenze, Italy

I. Introduzione: Andantino

Track length4:58

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II. Andante grazioso

Track length2:33

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III. Maestoso

Track length1:35

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IV. Moderato

Track length3:04

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V. Allegro vivace

Track length3:04

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Excerpt, Legnani: Caprices (36), Op. 20

Work length10:49

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-9 February, 6-8 March 2016
Recording Venue: Studio Emme, Calenzano, Firenze, Italy

Capriccio No. 2. Allegro

Track length0:54

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Capriccio No. 4. Allegretto

Track length0:51

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Capriccio No. 7. Prestissimo

Track length1:22

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Capriccio No. 15: Presto

Track length1:12

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Capriccio No. 19: Allegretto grazioso

Track length1:52

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Capriccio No. 22: Adagio

Track length2:47

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Capriccio No. 24: Allegro molto

Track length1:11

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Capriccio No. 29: Prestissimo

Track length0:40

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Sor: Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 9

Work length9:09

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-9 February, 6-8 March 2016
Recording Venue: Studio Emme, Calenzano, Firenze, Italy

Introduction - Theme

Track length3:02

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Variation 1

Track length1:07

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Variation 2: Minore

Track length1:57

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Variation 3

Track length1:09

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Variation 4

Track length0:45

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Variation 5: Coda

Track length1:09

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Sor: Les Adieux, Op. 21

Work length5:39

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)

Aguado: Fandango variado, Op. 16

Work length8:03

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-9 February, 6-8 March 2016
Recording Venue: Studio Emme, Calenzano, Firenze, Italy

I. Adagio

Track length2:07

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II. Allegro vivace

Track length4:32

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III. Allegro

Track length1:24

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Coste, N: Le tournoi, Op. 15

Work length11:14

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Luigi Attademo (guitar)
Recorded: 8-9 February, 6-8 March 2016
Recording Venue: Studio Emme, Calenzano, Firenze, Italy

I. Introduction

Track length2:05

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II. Allegro Maestoso

Track length9:09

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A guitar compilation out of the ordinary: full of Mediterranean fire and foot-tapping rhythms, but in the context of a historically informed journey through the cultural landscape of the guitar’s spiritual home in the 19th century, and played on original instruments of the time by a musician who has thoroughly researched the technique and technical developments necessary for performances fully within the idiom. There is even a first recording, most unusually for this often-heard repertoire: the Sonatina by Giuseppe Anelli, a guitarist and composer from Turin who probably published these pieces in 1809.

The best-known names on this album are Mauro Giuliani and his rival Fernando Sor, both being famed through the capitals of Europe as virtuoso guitarists in the first decades of the 19th century. Giuliani’s Capricci Op.20 are a synthesis of his musical style, full of virtuoso passages and feature a delightful melodic vein that clearly derives from the bel canto tradition. Meanwhile the Fantasia Op.21 and the Variations Op.9 are fine examples of Sor’s style, with their implicit references to Mozart and Haydn as sources of inspiration.

Less familiar to us now is Dionisio Aguado, who was in Paris during the 1830s. His renown as a composer is less widespread than that of Sor, perhaps because he spent much of his life writing a teaching method (published in 1849) that embodies not only a synthesis of his technical vision of the instrument, but also an aesthetics of sound and an approach to interpretation that are distinctly modern in concept.

The guitar’s technological innovations are more evident in the music of Napoléon Coste, a student of Sor who devised a seven-stringed guitar that responded to the need for greater timbral and harmonic variety, offering extended richness in the lower register. Le Tournoi, a ‘Fantasie chevaleresque’, was conceived for this type of instrument, and derives directly from the programmatic music typical of the romantic symphonic repertoire. It is no coincidence that the piece was dedicated to Hector Berlioz.

19th Century Guitar Music

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