Ricardo Seguel - L'accademia Di Musica - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Leipzig String Quartet / Gollej,Olga - Taneyev Piano Quintet Op.30 Songs Op.34 [COMPACT DISCS] date 04/01/2016

Between 1769 and 1773, Mozart made three travels to Italy, under the guidance of his father Leopold. The present program traces the stages especially of his first two trip from 1769 to 1771, during which the young Mozart played an important role in Milan's musical life, and reconstructs the most important musical encounters. Arias from InchMitridateInch and InchAscanio in AlbaInch (written for the Teatro Regio Ducale Milan) and InchBetulia LiberataInch (written for Padua) can be heard. The program is rounded off by the musical background that Mozart found on the peninsula, illustrated by arias from operas by Guglielmi, Myslivecek and Gluck - all representatives of a style and a search for language that was precisely the reason why the InchViaggio in ItaliaInch was an essential stage in the training of a young composer.

This MarchVivo recording presents remastered excerpts from two recitals given by guitarist Ricardo Gallen at the Fundacion Juan March in 2014 and 2017. The thread linking all the works on the album is the habanera. Although it's name derives from that of the Cuban capital, this genre of song and dance had mixed European and African roots. By the late 19th century, it had travelled back from Cuba to Europe and seduced half the continent with it's sensual, swaying rhythm. Having arrived on ships that docked in the ports of Cadiz and Seville, it discovered it's close kinship with tango and was later assimilated by flamenco. The habanera captured the imagination of Spanish and French composers because of it's power to conjure an exotic vision of InchothernessInch, as conveyed here by the intimate voice of the Spanish guitar.