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Music from Mazzini’s Letters, Played on His Guitars / Battaglia
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Music from Mazzini’s Letters, Played on His Guitars / Battaglia

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Composer
Mauro Giuliani, Luigi Rinaldo Legnani, Caspar Joseph Mertz, Luigi Moretti, Niccolo Paganini, Giulio
Artist
Marco Battaglia
Format
CD
Label
Tactus
Released
Aug 04, 2023
Catalog #
TC780001
UPC
8007194108019

About

Giuseppe Mazzini, the greatest revolutionary of the 19th century in Europe, was very passionate about music, he attended theaters and organized an annual concert to support the Italian School he founded in London. He published a very interesting “Philosophy of music” in Paris in 1836 and, as we know from the letters to his mother written in periods of exile from Italy, he loved to play the guitar.

His three guitars, appearing for the first time together in a single recording, are preserved in his birthplace in Genoa, today Museo del Risorgimento – Istituto Mazziniano, at the Istituto Storico Nazionale Domus Mazziniana in Pisa, where he died, and in the private collection preserved in Milan by Marco Battaglia. The album includes a varied and fascinating repertoire of original music by Niccolò Paganini, Luigi Moretti, Giulio Regondi and Luigi Legnani, a song specifically mentioned in a letter from Mazzini, a theme by Giovanni Pacini varied by Mauro Giuliani, also author of a potpourri that includes parts of works by Gioachino Rossini, and a fantasy on Verdi's Traviata, elaborated by Caspar Joseph Mertz.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 No. 16 in G Major: Larghetto (after In cor più non mi sento from La Molinara by Paisiello) 02:35
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 16 in G Major: Larghetto (after In cor più non mi sento from La Molinara by Paisiello)
    Duration
    02:35
    Composer
    Niccolò Paganini
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  2. 2 No. 17 in D Major: Andantino (after Le streghe from Il noce di Benevento by Sussmayr) 02:11
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 17 in D Major: Andantino (after Le streghe from Il noce di Benevento by Sussmayr)
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    Niccolò Paganini
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  3. 3 No. 20 in C Major: Andante (after La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni by Mozart) 02:57
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 20 in C Major: Andante (after La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni by Mozart)
    Duration
    02:57
    Composer
    Niccolò Paganini
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  4. 4 No. 31 in A Major: Minuetto: Andante 01:33
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 31 in A Major: Minuetto: Andante
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Niccolò Paganini
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  5. 5 No. 37 in A Major: Adagietto con espressione (after Rossini) 01:52
    Track
    5
    Title
    No. 37 in A Major: Adagietto con espressione (after Rossini)
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Niccolò Paganini
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  6. 6 No. 38 in A Major: Vivace 00:59
    Track
    6
    Title
    No. 38 in A Major: Vivace
    Duration
    00:59
    Composer
    Niccolò Paganini
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  7. 7 Grand Sonata for Solo Guitar, Op. 2: Andante grazioso 04:51
    Track
    7
    Title
    Grand Sonata for Solo Guitar, Op. 2: Andante grazioso
    Duration
    04:51
    Composer
    Luigi Moretti
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  8. 8 Variazioni sul tema favorito della Cavatina, Op. 128, "Io ti vidi e t'adorai" 09:44
    Track
    8
    Title
    Variazioni sul tema favorito della Cavatina, Op. 128, "Io ti vidi e t'adorai"
    Duration
    09:44
    Composer
    Mauro Giuliani
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  9. 9 Rossiniana No. 5, Op. 123 14:39
    Track
    9
    Title
    Rossiniana No. 5, Op. 123
    Duration
    14:39
    Composer
    Mauro Giuliani
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  10. 10 10 Études: Étude No. 1 in C Major: Moderato 04:11
    Track
    10
    Title
    10 Études: Étude No. 1 in C Major: Moderato
    Duration
    04:11
    Composer
    Giulio Regondi
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  11. 11 Opern-Revue Op. 8: No. 29. La Traviata (after Verdi) 13:35
    Track
    11
    Title
    Opern-Revue Op. 8: No. 29. La Traviata (after Verdi)
    Duration
    13:35
    Composer
    Johann Kaspar Mertz
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  12. 12 Capriccio No. 2. Allegro 01:25
    Track
    12
    Title
    Capriccio No. 2. Allegro
    Duration
    01:25
    Composer
    Luigi Legnani
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  13. 13 Capriccio No. 7. Prestissimo 02:56
    Track
    13
    Title
    Capriccio No. 7. Prestissimo
    Duration
    02:56
    Composer
    Luigi Legnani
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia
  14. 14 Capriccio No. 36: Moderato 01:48
    Track
    14
    Title
    Capriccio No. 36: Moderato
    Duration
    01:48
    Composer
    Luigi Legnani
    Performer
    Marco Battaglia