Laura plays Laura
£15.15
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Label: Stradivarius
Cat No: STR37238
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 27th October 2023
Contents
Works
LauraNocturnal after John Dowland, op.70
Fantasia per Laura
Suite for guitar
Smoke gets in your eyes (arr. Fernando Alonso)
Amours perdues (arr. Toru Takemitsu)
Alfonsina y el mar (arr. Fernando Alonso)
The Last Waltz (Les Reed and Barry Mason, arr. for guitar)
Artists
Laura Mondiello (guitar)Works
LauraNocturnal after John Dowland, op.70
Fantasia per Laura
Suite for guitar
Smoke gets in your eyes (arr. Fernando Alonso)
Amours perdues (arr. Toru Takemitsu)
Alfonsina y el mar (arr. Fernando Alonso)
The Last Waltz (Les Reed and Barry Mason, arr. for guitar)
Artists
Laura Mondiello (guitar)About
A milestone of twentieth-century guitar literature, Nocturnal after John Dowland, op. 70 (1963), by Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) joins hands here with two pieces, Fantasia per Laura (2010) and Suite per chitarra (2016), by Giancarlo Facchinetti (1936-2017), a composer from Brescia who ‘with his biographical and artistic story, sums up the fragmented and contradictory course of twentieth-century music’. Alongside the mainland represented by the works of Britten and Facchinetti, the former unanimously historicised and the latter undoubtedly on the way to being so, five well-known songs belonging to the tradition of pop music have been inserted, like a small and intricate archipelago. Seemingly isolated, far removed from the seriousness of the classical context just described, yet dense with their own poetic originality, thanks in part to the inventiveness of the musicians who have succeeded so well in making guitar arrangements of them, the songs surface like water lilies among the leaden atmospheres elicited by Britten and Facchinetti, like an invitation to free our mind and soul from the meditative introversion characterising the Nocturnal, as well as the Fantasia and Suite.
The pieces in our programme alternate as if wishing to lead the listener through the meanderings of an emotional journey that culminates in the concluding Nocturnal.
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