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2021-03-10 08:15:06
Vocal Cords: for his debut recording guitarist Andrea Belmonte explores early 19th-century Italian guitar music
Vocal cords: Italian themes for guitar; Andrea Belmonte; KHA Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 9 March 2021 Star rating: 3.5 (★★★½) A charming disc which creates a collage of lyrical movements from early 19th century Italian guitarist composers, and showcases the singing style of young Italian guitarist Andrea BelmonteUnder the title of Vocal cords, this charming debut recital by guitarist Andrea Belmonte on the KHA label explores the legacy of Italian guitarist and composer Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) with music by Giuliani along with Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello, Niccolo Paganini, Gioachino Rossini, Domenico Cimarosa, Luigi Legnani, Matteo Carcassi, Giulio Regondi, Francesco Molino, Marco Aurelio Zani de Ferranti and Ferdinando Carulli. Born in 1996, Andrea Belmonte is a young Italian guitarist with catholic tastes, his repertoire ranges from baroque to flamenco not to mention contemporary and jazz, and his thesis for his first degree was an in depth study of flamenco […]
2020-04-28 07:37:47
The early Romantic guitar: Johan Löfving takes us into the salons of Europe at a period when the instrument's popularity blossomed
[…] leading to a set of variations. Often regarded as the greatest of 19th century guitar composers, Fernando Sor (1778-1839) was valued as a player and teacher as well as a composer, whilst his compositional output included not only guitar music but operas, ballets and symphonies. His tiny Etude Op.31 No.10 is one of his many pieces written for teaching purposes (and thus to give him a significant publishing income), yet it is also elegantly classical.Giulio Regondi (1822-1872) started out as a child-prodigy in Europe, before settling in the UK where he developed a mastery of the newly-invented concertina as the guitar fell out of favour. His guitar music has only recently been re-discovered, and his Introduction et Caprice Op.23 is a large-scale show-piece with an introspective Introduction followed by the elegant Allegretto scherzando where Regondi combines an attractive lyricism with the necessary showy writing.The final work on the disc is […]
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Clairvoyant Classical Music
2019-12-11 20:19:12
Introduction et Caprice, Op. 23 by Giulio Regondi (classical guitar)
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