Vacchi - Complete Music for Guitar
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96976
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 28th July 2023
Contents
Works
Apocrifo for solo guitarFlow my Dowland
Plynn for solo guitar
Quintetto notturno concertante
Suite for flute and amplified guitar
Artists
Alberto Mesirca (guitar)Daniele Ruggieri (flute)
Livia Rado (soprano)
Quartetto Manfredi
‘Flow My Dowland’ Ensemble
Conductor
Francesco Di GiorgioWorks
Apocrifo for solo guitarFlow my Dowland
Plynn for solo guitar
Quintetto notturno concertante
Suite for flute and amplified guitar
Artists
Alberto Mesirca (guitar)Daniele Ruggieri (flute)
Livia Rado (soprano)
Quartetto Manfredi
‘Flow My Dowland’ Ensemble
Conductor
Francesco Di GiorgioAbout
The most substantial piece on this new collection of his chamber pieces was commissioned by the Swedish guitarist Magnus Andersson and first performed by him in 1997 as a guitar concerto; this Quintetto notturno concertante dates from 2012 and is a masterful condensation of the complexities of the original, rich instrumental texture, while preserving its fleeing moods and subtly shifting changes of harmony.
At the other end of this collection, Livia Rado sings Flow my Dowland, a rapturous transformation of five songs by the Elizabethan lutenist, in which the original vocal part is richly embroidered by Vacchi’s own modern reimagination of the accompanying part, scored for a small ensemble of winds, strings, vibraphone and harp, to melting and magical effect.
In between come a pair of solo works, though in fact Plynn quotes Britten’s Nocturnal after John Dowland as a study of harmonics on the guitar, evoking its most dreamlike and insubstantial timbres. The earliest piece here is a Suite for flute and guitar, dating from 1971. Here, the 22-year-old Vacchi is at his most experimental in terms of both form and harmony, employing extraneous elements such as pen and paper and sending both instruments to the extremes of their register, though always with an intrinsically idiomatic sympathy. Any listener with an ear for the Italian postwar avant-garde will find this newly recorded album full of delight and discovery.
Played with great dedication by guitarist Alberto Mesirca and various Italian soloists of international renown. Alberto Mesirca has an extensive discography to his name, ranging from Sanz, Giuliani, Regondi to Sylvano Bussotti.
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