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Mauro Giuliani

Concerto Op. 30 Nº 1

in A Mayor

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  Néstor Benito - guitar

  Mayo Chamber Orchestra

  Conductor: Luis Roggero

   

  BG Records Inc.

  MM-36137-2 / USA

• Commentaries of works

       Mauro Giuliani

  • The Giuliani's Guitar Concerto Nbr.1 Op.30 in A Major was premiered on 3 April 1808 and immediately recommended itself to the Viennese audience as the kind of concerto Rossini would surely have written had he been moved so to do.

     

    Cast in the standard Classical form of two robust outer movements in sonata and rondo form respectively, sandwiching a more introspective slower one, the piece is brimful of catchy, singable melodies radiated throughout by typically Italianete delight in Mediterranean sunshine.

     

    The finale bristles with virtuoso guitar writing, ranging from the brilliant employment of tremolo to rapid scalic figurations and wrist-crippling arpeggios.

     

  • Fernando Sor

     

    The was composed “Fantasia Op. 21 No. 6 Los Adioses” in E minor, between Russia. He had left his 1825 and 1826, after Sor left wife there, as well as his friend and mentor, Zar Alexander I of Russiadied in 1825 and it was for him that. Alexander I Sor composed the Funeral March played at his funeral ceremony.

     

    Sor was a composer and guitarist beyond compare. His generous character and his refined spirituality were the engines to his life, made manifest in his compositions.

     

  • Franz Liszt 

     “Consolation Nbr. 3” was composed in 1849 and belongs to a set of six consolations originally composed for the piano. This composition/work has a particular and deep melodic poetry, such as only Liszt’s temperament could express.

  • Carlos García Tolsa

    
    “Estela” - Mazurka [Stella], is one of the many works García Tolsa composed in the form of the XIX Th Century classical drawing room music. Its well-mannered, inspired, guitarist production is a model unto its class and it is, without a doubt, a faithful reflection of the composer’s artistic value.

     

  • Heitor Villa Lobos

     

    "Preludes Nbr. 1 and Nbr.5", composed in 1940, belong to a series of Five Preludes dedicated to Andrés Segovia. Similar to his Twelve Studies, these works opened unprecedented directions, both in technical and expressive terms. They reflect his romantic and electric personality, without loss to the essence of his Brazilian roots.

    Irwin Schwerke said of him: "Villa Lobos summarizes the culture of a country. For, more than any other musical representative from Brazil, seems triggered by the inner fire of his race”.

  • José Franchini

     

    "Melody" was the last work written by Master José Franchini, in October 1983, dedicated to Néstor Benito.

     

  • Néstor Benito

     

    The nocturne "Homenaje a José Franchini" was composed in 1995 for the concert he offered the same year at the Colón Theatre in Buenos Aires, to pay homage to his Master.

     

    Between 1994 and 1995, he composed "Interiores Nbr.2", originally written for guitar and orchestra, which contains three linked movements representing solitude, love and tensions.