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WORKS
BY ANGELO GILARDINO
SONATA
No 2 ,”HIVERN FLORIT”
(Solo Guitar)
I.
Allegretto semplice
II. Andante molto tranquillo, quasi adagio
III. Allegro vivo e brillante
The Sonata No
2, Hivern Florit, (A Blossomed Winter) written in l986 intends to
pay homage to Ramón Nadal a renowned painter from Mallorca (Spain).
The Sonata was written in 1986 and was inspired in a
Nadal painting of Mallorca’s landscape. It portrays a tender and
lukewarm winter being the snow replaced by flowers of delicate colours
surrounding a farm seen from afar under a grey blue heavenly sky. This
was an unusual Mediterranean new look and Maestro Gilardino commented…
“not a warm brilliant one, but a sweet one and – again –
under a melancholic light. The Sonata form is evocative: the style of
Italian masters of XVIII century is recalled, where the themes were
also melodies and the developments were expansions of those melodies”…
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STUDI DI VIRTUOSITA
E DI TRASCENDENZA
STUDIO
No 13
Canción Triste,
Ommagio a Pablo Neruda
STUDIO No 35
Omaggio a
Manuel María Ponce
STUDIO No 40
Omaggio a
João Guimarães Rosa
Angelo Gilardino
decided to abandon his career as a guitar performer by mid l981 and
concentrated his
efforts to write, research work and teaching music. The three Studies
belong to the cycle entitled Studi
di virtuosita e di trascendenza which absorbed the period from 1961
to 1988. In seven years Maestro
Gilardino wrote 60 Studies and two Sonatas, published by Edizioni Musicali
Bèrben. Since then, the Studies are part of the repertoire of
every international guitar player around the world. The Studies are
of high level of virtuosity due to their exotic character. In Maestro
Gilardino own words… “ The 60 Studies exploit many sides of
the traditional virtuosity with a new approach; also offer a series
of new
patterns, but above all they are poetical works. Each of them is dedicated
to an artist… either a relevant historical figure or a local Italian
artist often a painter – as a homage to… When such a homage
is paid to a musician, no attempt is made to imitate his style, but
the poetical world of each
dedicatee (writers, poets, painters, composers) is evocated from within
the style of the author of each study”…
Sante Tursi has chosen three Studies for tonight’s concert; they
pay homage to Latin American artists, as in the case of the Chilean
poet Pablo Neruda, the Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce and
the
Brazilian writer João Guimarães Rosa. Each one of the
Studies called up memories and emotions related to these three great
influential personages. However, there is an element in common; they
are bound up with a touch of sadness or melancholy.
LIEDERKONCERT
(World première)
For Two Guitars and Chamber Orchestra
I. ABENDLIED – Andante calmo
II. ERLKONIG – Un poco agitato
III. AN DIE ENTFERNTE – Adagio
IV. HARFENSPIELER – Allegro vivo e fluente
The Liederkoncert
for two guitars and chamber orchestra was written in 2000 and is part
of a series of six concertos. Here the guitar combines its sound in
harmony with the rest of string instruments as well as solo parts or
combined with another solo instrument. Gilardino was inspired on Schubert’s
Lieder, some few titles were taking as a starting point during the four
movements of the piece in
where the two guitars are not taken separately, but as two different
instruments in dialogue so on they
constitute a unique 12 string guitar which allowed the composer to expand
the contrapuntual capacities of the instrument, as well as, its colour
palette of the ordinary solo guitar. The composer said… “The
work has been scored so as to allow a performance either with a chamber
orchestra or with just one of the string and wind instruments, plus
a celesta and timpani - as in this occasion.
No quotation has been made from Schubert’s Lieder, beyond their
titles, but again – as in the Sonata No 2 for Guitar, the basic
principle is the identification of ‘theme’ and ‘song’
– hence the nature of the
thematic elements and of their expansions”…
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© Programme
Notes provided by Maestro
Angelo Gilardino
Layout by J Sylvester, LACCS-UK, 2004.
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
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