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

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Label
Tactus
Release Date
August 4, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Mauro Giuliani, Luigi Rinaldo Legnani, Caspar Joseph Mertz, Luigi Moretti, Niccolo Paganini, Giulio
    • PERFORMER
      Marco Battaglia
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 04, 2023
    • UPC
      8007194108019
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      TC780001
    • LABEL
      Tactus
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Guitar
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 16 in G Major: Larghetto (after In cor più non mi sento from La Molinara by Paisiello)

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    2. No. 17 in D Major: Andantino (after Le streghe from Il noce di Benevento by Sussmayr)

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    3. No. 20 in C Major: Andante (after La ci darem la mano from Don Giovanni by Mozart)

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    4. No. 31 in A Major: Minuetto: Andante

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    5. No. 37 in A Major: Adagietto con espressione (after Rossini)

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    6. No. 38 in A Major: Vivace

      Composer: Niccolò Paganini

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    7. Grand Sonata for Solo Guitar, Op. 2: Andante grazioso

      Composer: Luigi Moretti

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    8. Variazioni sul tema favorito della Cavatina, Op. 128, "Io ti vidi e t'adorai"

      Composer: Mauro Giuliani

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    9. Rossiniana No. 5, Op. 123

      Composer: Mauro Giuliani

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    10. 10 Études: Étude No. 1 in C Major: Moderato

      Composer: Giulio Regondi

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    11. Opern-Revue Op. 8: No. 29. La Traviata (after Verdi)

      Composer: Johann Kaspar Mertz

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    12. Capriccio No. 2. Allegro

      Composer: Luigi Legnani

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    13. Capriccio No. 7. Prestissimo

      Composer: Luigi Legnani

      Performer: Marco Battaglia

    14. Capriccio No. 36: Moderato

      Composer: Luigi Legnani

      Performer: Marco Battaglia


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.