Casarini: 24 Etudes for Guitar / Sebastiani

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Label
Brilliant Classics
Release Date
May 25, 2018
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      CASARINI, STEFANO
    • PERFORMER
      Adriano Sebastiani
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 25, 2018
    • UPC
      5028421956336
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI95633
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Comodo e cullante

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    2. No. 2. Largo e cantabile

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    3. No. 3. Ostinato e incisivo ma sempre flessibile

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    4. No. 4. Cantabile

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    5. No. 5. Allegramente

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    6. No. 6. Un poco rubando

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    7. No. 7. Con leggera malinconia

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    8. No. 8. Leggero e legatissimo

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    9. No. 9. Poco mosso con largo respiro

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    10. No. 10. Un poco ostinato

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    11. No. 11. Sostenuto, con espressione

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    12. No. 12. Tempo guisto, ben ritmico

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    13. No. 1. Vivace e giocoso

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    14. No. 2. Un poco agitato

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    15. No. 3. Allegretto, con grazia

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    16. No. 4. Mosso ed energico

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    17. No. 5. Andante, con espressione

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    18. No. 6. Allegro poco, con leggerezza

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    19. No. 7. Andante sostenuto

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    20. No. 8. Calmo e ben legato

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    21. No. 9. Poco mosso e dolente

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    22. No. 10. Allegretto, un poco languido

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    23. No. 11. Larghetto, con serenita

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani

    24. No. 12. Leggero e legato

      Composer: Stefano Casarini

      Performer: Adriano Sebastiani


Born in 1959, Stefano Casarini has composed an extensive library of concert and educational music for the guitar for different levels of accomplishment. The 12 Grandes Etudes and 12 Petites Etudes recorded here are designed for professional or at least highly accomplished musicians, full of technical challenges yet satisfyingly musical in their own right. The idiom is tonal but modern, often reflective in mood, using repeated motifs which owe something both to the guitar tradition and to Minimalist music. As Adriano Sebastiani remarks in his booklet notes to this new recording, ‘Casarini’s compositions are highly distinctive, never banal, certainly idiomatic and always to the point. By the same token they can also be intrepid, and inclined to create evocative atmospheres and states of mind that can convey deep feelings.’ This is Adriano Sebastiani’s fifth album for Brilliant Classics, after well-received recordings where he accompanies singers in music by Dowland, Spohr, Weber and Rossini. Thus he brings to Casarini’s music a natural feeling for its Romantic character and easy melodic flow. The album also joins an expanding and valuable collection of studies for guitar on Brilliant Classics, including two collections of Easy Studies and volumes dedicated to Sor, to Gangi and Gilardino, among others. This is the projected first volume of a series designed by Sebastiani to bring Casarini’s compositional voice to an international audience and to give a more complete picture of the stylistic variety, the value and beauty of his music