Santoliquido - Chamber Music
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96589
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 9th September 2022
Contents
Works
Acqueforti Tunisine (2)Aria Antica
Chiarita Lunare
Ex Humo ad Sidera
Giardini Notturni
Notturno
Piccola Ballata
Reverie
Trio Fantasia 'La Favola di Helga'
Violin Sonata in A minor
Artists
Gran Duo ItalianoFederica Del Bagno (cello)
Works
Acqueforti Tunisine (2)Aria Antica
Chiarita Lunare
Ex Humo ad Sidera
Giardini Notturni
Notturno
Piccola Ballata
Reverie
Trio Fantasia 'La Favola di Helga'
Violin Sonata in A minor
Artists
Gran Duo ItalianoFederica Del Bagno (cello)
About
However, Francesco Santoliquido’s own music has fallen into almost complete obscurity, a state which this attractive new recording by the established partnership of the Gran Duo Italiano should help to improve. Born in Naples in 1883 and trained in Rome, Santoliquido never espoused even the mild brand of modernism or the neoclassicism of contemporaries such as Casella, Malipiero and Pizzetti, and he issued diatribes against the evils and origins of modernism in the fascist press.
Beyond the precepts of a classic-romantic style, then, the individual flavour of Santoliquido’s music owes something to his residence in Tunis during the 1910s, and subsequent support of a culture for classical music in north Africa, including the foundation of a concert society and music school in Tunis. Thus the piano music featured here includes a pair of Acqueforti Tunisine, as well as orientally scented nocturnes which were written for his wife to play. The album concludes with Ex Humo ad Sidera, a piece that describes mankind’s terrible struggle in rising from the dark, savage state towards Light.
The main work here is a traditionally structured Violin Sonata in A minor with a turbulent opening movement, a languid and dreamy Andante and then a stormy finale. It is revived here with tremendous conviction by Mauro Tortorelli (violin) and Angela Meluso (piano), who have a string of critically acclaimed albums on Brilliant Classics to their credit, most recently featuring chamber music by Ševčík, Auer (96213) and Castelnuovo-Tedesco (96007). According to Fanfare magazine, reviewing an album of Milhaud’s chamber music (95449), ‘the versatility and fine musicianship of Mauro Tortorelli… maintains its high standards here.’
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