Molinaro / Nastrucci - Danze E Fantasie Da Intavolatura Di Liuto - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Album Tracks 1. Act I 2. Sinfonia 3. Ho Formato Già Il Contratto 4. Caro Signor Notaro 5. Signora Baronessa Non Pensi 6. Con Tutto Il Feudo Suo 7. La Rachelina, Molinarina 8. Costei M'incanta 9. Barbaro Amante, Di Un'alma Incostante 10. Guarda Accidente 11. Per Marito a Ussignoria 12. Atto Primo, la Molinara È Un Stabile Eccellente 13. Non So Che Mi Prende 14. Oh, Sta Qui ! Sior Notaro 15. Qual Tromba Rimbombante 16. Per Verità Il Notaro 17. Dite Grazie, Quei Signori 18. Act II 19. Il Cor Mi Dice Sempre 20. A Che Far Le Superbette 21. Salva, Salva Ho Veduto 22. Piano Un PÒ, Che Fate 23. Il Barone Col Notaro 24. Dov'è Quell'indegno? 25. Act III 26. Oimè Voi Qua? 27. Nel Cor Più Non Mi Sento 28. Voi Qua Siete Tornato 29. Mi Sta Nell'anima 30. Ecco, S'apron Le Porte 31. Quanto È Bello L'amor Contadino 32. Dunque Il Notar Tu Sei? 33. Scritti Addio, VI Lascio Andare 34. Dunque la Rachelina 35. Veggo Fra L'ombre 36. Misera Me, Dove Mi Salvo 37. Ahi, Chi Mi Sostiene 38. Ah! Sono Inevitabili I Guai 39. Oh, Il Mio Caro Pupazzeto 40. Sior Rospolone, Portatevi 41. Zitta, Zitta, a Passo a Passo 42. Bonus Miserere, Per Due Soprani E Orchestra D'archi

The compositions on this , which walk along the border between past and present, were dedicated to the guitar by Glauco Cataldo. He is a free-thinking musician, working in self-imposed isolation, and deserving of fame not only for his experience and substantial output, but also for the quality of his work, the fruit of an extremely unusual artistic and intellectual personality. Cataldo was born in Naples in March 1920. He studied music first in Pesaro and later in Milan, with Giorgio Federico Ghedini and Antonio Votto. From 1948 onward, he served as a teacher at the G. Nicolini Conservatory of Piacenza. He passed away in 2009. The works on this album are performed by Italian guitarist Giancarlo Dellacasa. Album Tracks 1. Plenilunio 2. Tema E Variazioni 3. Ciaccona 4. Preludio E Fuga 5. Tarantella 6. Aubade 7. Pigmalione 8. Sonata 9. La Strada Bianca 10. Tre Liriche

The Naples of Antonio Valente was the principal city of the Spanish Empire of the day, second only to Istanbul of Mediterranean cities in population, a cultural and intellectual hub where ideas were traded as readily as goods at the port. This is the context for ready wit and vivid characters dancing before us in the harpsichord manuscript left to us as the principal work of an instrumental virtuoso who was blind from birth. Little else is known of Valente, though he became an organist in one of the city's private chapel between 1565 and 1580, and we know that this Intavolatura was published in 1576, by which time the composer's reputation had spread far beyond the kingdom of Naples. It seems certain that the collection was the first of it's kind to be written in southern Italy. These are popular dances rather than original melodies, and Valente transcribes and elaborates them in various genres of song and dance there are hymns (a Salve Regina), galliards, ricercars, ballads, even a flamboyant 'Bascia Flammignia', placed in exuberant juxtaposition, hardly designed to be heard in strict order but a collection to delight and entertain. The Intavolatura does so here, thanks to the imaginative re-instrumentation and sparkling performances of an Italian early-music ensemble, L'Amorosa Caccia. The songs are reattributed to a pair of singers (Giulia Valentini and Marcos Garcia Gutierrez), accompanied by two violas da gamba and a recorder, with the overall artistic direction undertaken from the keyboard by Fabio Antonio Falcone. Album Tracks 1. Fantasia Del Primo Tono 2. Qui la Dira 3. Chi la Dirra, Disminuita 4. Recercata Del Ottavo Tono 5. Bascia Flammignia 6. Gagliarda Napolitana 7. Recercata Del Primo Tono 8. Lo Ballo Dell'intorcia 9. Gagliarda Lombarda 10. Ballo Lombardo 11. Recercata Del Sesto Tono a Quatto Voce Con Lo Basso in Canone a L'otta