Cycle
Mirroring worlds

The Spanish guitar

Recital
In the nineteenth century the guitar enjoyed the same popularity among the lower and middle classes as the piano (a much more costly investment) did in the salons of the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie. Reflecting the operatic productions of the time via fantasias or variations, guitarists saw their repertoires expand both in the field of light music and in that of demonstrative virtuosity. While the French school flourished, with major figures such as Napoléon Coste and Alfred Cottin, the influence of Spain (François de Fossa, Dionisio Aguado, Fernando Sor, Francisco Tárrega) and Italy (Ferdinando Carulli, especially) was also manifest in the music composed in France for the instrument.


Concert preceded by a lecture and followed by an aperitif.

Dates

Tue 3 October 2023
19.30
Palazzetto Bru Zane, Venice

Performers

Luigi Attademo guitar

Programme

Works by FOSSA, SOR, CARULLI, AGUADO, COSTE, TÁRREGA, COTTIN and COLLET

François de Fossa
1. Fantaisie sur l’air des Folies d’Espagne op. 12 :
I. Introduction : Largo – II. Thème : Andante – III. Variation 1 – IV. Variation 2 – V. Variation 3 – VI.
Variation 4 – VII. Variation 5 – VIII. Variation 6 – XIX. Coda
Fernando Sor
2. Les Folies d’Espagne op. 15a :
I. Thème – II. Variation 1 – III. Variation 2 – IV. Variation 3 – V. Variation 4 – VI. Menuet
Ferdinando Carulli
3. Les Folies d’Espagne op. 75 :
I. Thème et douze variations en ré mineur – II. Thème et six variations en mi mineur
Dionisio Aguado
4. Fandango varié op. 16 :
I. Adagio – II. Allegro vivace
Napoléon Coste
5. Caprice sur l’air espagnol La Cachucha op. 13
Francisco Tárrega
6. Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Alfred Cottin
7. Habanera
8. Mélancolie
9. Souvenir d’Andalousie (Habanera)
Henri Collet
10. Briviesca op. 67 (Poema para guitarra)