Daniele Ruggieri (flute) & Alberto Mesirca (guitar) play =>Giuliani: Complete Music for Flute and Guitar

Composer: Mauro Giuliani

Mauro Giuliani (1781-1629) - Wikipedia

Artists: Daniele Ruggieri (flute)

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Alberto Mesirca (guitar)  

The combination of flute and guitar was a popular and appealing one for many amateur musicians of the early 19th century, and the Italian guitarist-composer Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) realised its full potential with a string of commercial hits based on popular melodies of the time, well-known marches and arias, as well as more substantial concert works.

This is the first time that all of Giuliani’s flute-and-guitar music has been brought together and recorded in a single volume, and it makes for immensely attractive listening. His style is unfailingly pure, classically restrained and beautifully poised in its apparent lightness. Even the most overtly virtuosic moments are free of the pathos associated with masterworks of The Romantic age: this is music conceived to delight and to entertain first and foremost.

Following his birth and training as a musician in Italy, Giuliani enjoyed a profitable stay in Vienna from 1806 to 1819, winning the acquaintance and admiration of Beethoven. He struck up a friendship with a German flautist Johann Sedlatzeck (also admired by Beethoven) and together they gave many concerts together, in Vienna and on tour through Italy. The pieces featured on this collection were written for them to perform together and they accordingly make skilful use of the virtuosity and lyric gifts of both players.

Flutist Daniele Ruggieri completed his studies in Venice where he graduated with the highest marks under Guido Novello and subsequently in Geneva where he was awarded the first Prix de Virtuosité in the class of Maxence Larrieu, after which he built an impressive career as a soloist and ensemble player. Master guitarist Alberto Mesirca is twice winner of the Golden Guitar, for the best recording of the Year. He recorded the complete guitar music by Regondi, Asencio and Sanz, and “Voces de Sefarad” , four centuries of Sephardic Songs.

Tracklist:
Gran duetto concertante, Op. 52:
0:00:00 I. Andante sostenuto
0:04:25 II. Menuetto allegro vivace. Trio
0:08:46 III. Rondò militare allegretto

Variazioni, Op. 81:
0:15:28 I. Thema grazioso
0:16:51 II. Variazione 1
0:17:44 III. Variazione 2
0:18:34 IV. Variazione 3
0:19:34 V. Variazione 4
0:20:32 VI. Variazione 5, un poco più lento
0:22:20 VII. Variazione 6, tempo primo

Gran duo concertante, Op. 85:
0:23:42 I. Allegro maestoso
0:31:05 II. Andante molto sostenuto
0:36:41 III. Scherzo vivace. Trio
0:41:00 IV. Allegretto espressivo

Variazioni, Op. 84:
0:46:49 I. Introduzione. Andantino sostenuto
0:48:00 II. Thema. Allegretto
0:49:04 III. Variazione 1
0:50:08 IV. Variazione 2
0:51:01 V. Variazione 3
0:52:03 VI. Variazione 4
0:52:59 VII. Variazione 5
0:54:01 VIII. Variazione 6

Collection of Variations by Madame Catalani, WoO G&F(V) 5 on Mozart’s “Oh dolce concento”:
0:56:35 I. Introduzione maestoso
0:57:13 II. Tema
0:57:55 III. Variazione 1
0:58:39 IV. Variazione 2
0:59:22 V. Variazione 3

Variations on the Air “La biondina in gondoletta”:
1:00:18 I. Tema
1:01:38 II. Variazione 1
1:02:37 III. Variazione 2
1:03:36 IV. Variazione 3

1:04:36 Rondò “donnette innamorate” in Pot-Pourri: I. Allegretto

Duettino facile, Op. 77:
1:07:14 I. Andantino maestoso
1:08:58 II. Minuetto scherzoso con brio. Trio
1:12:34 III. Rondó allegretto

Sérénade, Op. 127:
1:16:21 I. Maestoso
1:19:19 II. Minuetto Allegretto. Trio
1:22:52 III. Thema andantino mosso
1:24:17 IV. Variazione 1 più mosso
1:25:25 V. Variazione 2 più lento
1:28:01 VI. Variazione 3. Primo tempo
1:29:50 VII. Rondó allegro

1:33:31 The complete tracklist can be found in the pinned comment!