Mauro Tortorelli - Violin & Piano Works - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Mauro Tortorelli - Works for Violin & Piano [COMPACT DISCS] Jewel Case Packaging date 02/08/2011

The effervescent creativity of Franco Margola (already featured on the double CD Tactus TC 901390, Chamber Music · Concertos for Soloist and Orchestra) focuses in this recording on music for guitar, both as a solo instrument and in chamber music settings. Margola's approach to the guitar occurred in 1967. In an interview given to Maestro Domenico Lafasciano for the magazine Accademia della chitarra classica, the composer explained that his interest in this instrument matured thanks to his friend and colleague Renzo Cabassi (1908-1988). Initially, Margola was reluctant to compose for the guitar as he barely knew it's tuning, but eventually, the particularities of this fascinating and intimate instrument inspired him more and more, making it one of his favorites. The de Carli catalogue lists over 450 works for guitar, both solo and chamber ensemble, many of which remain unpublished and unknown. Mauro and Luciano Tortorelli - with the assistance of Ludovica del Bagno on violin - perform this first-ever recording of previously unpublished works by the brilliant composer from Brescia.

A transcription for solo violin, of some of the most famous soundtracks of Nino Rota, may seem like a dangerous challenge. However, Mauro Tortorelli manages to keep Rota's style intact, adapting it to a purely virtuoso writing that never overlaps the frankness and freshness of the original material.