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Vacchi: Complete Music for Guitar
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Vacchi: Complete Music for Guitar

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Composer
Fabio Vacchi
Artist
Alberto Mesirca, Daniele Ruggieri, Livia Rado
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Jul 28, 2023
Catalog #
BRI96976
UPC
5028421969763

About

Born in 1949, Fabio Vacchi stands among the pre-eminent Italian composers of his generation. Working primarily in the operatic field, he has had pieces staged at the Teatro alla Scala and by the Opéra Comique in Paris, the Opera de Lyon, the Maggio Musicale in Florence and the Teato Comunale in his home city of Bologna. Vacchi’s instrumental pieces have attracted similar high-profile performances. His chamber cycle Luoghi Immaginari (1987-1992), has been given across the world, including at the Salzburg Mozarteum conducted by Daniel Harding. Other pieces were commissioned by Claudio Abbado and by the Tokyo Quartet.

The most substantial piece on this new collection of his chamber pieces was commissioned by the Swedish guitarist Magnus Andersson and first performed by him in 1997 as a guitar concerto; this Quintetto Notturno Concertante dates from 2012 and is a masterful condensation of the complexities of the original, rich instrumental texture, while preserving its fleeing moods and subtly shifting changes of harmony. At the other end of this collection, Livia Rado sings Flow my Dowland, a rapturous transformation of five songs by the Elizabethan lutenist, in which the original vocal part is richly embroidered by Vacchi’s own modern reimagination of the accompanying part, scored for a small ensemble of winds, strings, vibraphone and harp, to melting and magical effect. In between come a pair of solo works, though in fact Plynn quotes Britten’s Nocturnal after John Dowland as a study of harmonics on the guitar, evoking its most dreamlike and insubstantial timbres. The earliest piece here is a Suite for flute and guitar, dating from 1971. Here, the 22-year-old Vacchi is at his most experimental in terms of both form and harmony, employing extraneous elements such as pen and paper and sending both instruments to the extremes of their register, though always with an intrinsically idiomatic sympathy. Any listener with an ear for the Italian postwar avant-garde will find this newly recorded album full of delight and discovery.

Tracklist 14 tracks

  1. 1 I. — 15:07
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    15:07
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Alberto Mesirca
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Manfredi
  2. 2 II. — 16:43
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. —
    Duration
    16:43
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Alberto Mesirca
    Ensemble
    Quartetto Manfredi
  3. 3 Plynn 02:50
    Track
    3
    Title
    Plynn
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Alberto Mesirca
  4. 4 Apocrifo 02:50
    Track
    4
    Title
    Apocrifo
    Duration
    02:50
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Alberto Mesirca
  5. 5 I. — 01:28
    Track
    5
    Title
    I. —
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Daniele Ruggieri, Alberto Mesirca
  6. 6 II. — 00:42
    Track
    6
    Title
    II. —
    Duration
    00:42
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Daniele Ruggieri, Alberto Mesirca
  7. 7 III. — 01:17
    Track
    7
    Title
    III. —
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Daniele Ruggieri, Alberto Mesirca
  8. 8 IV. — 01:17
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. —
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Daniele Ruggieri, Alberto Mesirca
  9. 9 V. — 02:20
    Track
    9
    Title
    V. —
    Duration
    02:20
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Daniele Ruggieri, Alberto Mesirca
  10. 10 No. 1. From Silent Night 05:39
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 1. From Silent Night
    Duration
    05:39
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Livia Rado, Alberto Mesirca
    Ensemble
    Flow My Dowland Ensemble
    Conductor
    Francesco Di Giorgio
  11. 11 No. 2. Sleep, Wayward Thoughts 02:02
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 2. Sleep, Wayward Thoughts
    Duration
    02:02
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Livia Rado, Alberto Mesirca
    Ensemble
    Flow My Dowland Ensemble
    Conductor
    Francesco Di Giorgio
  12. 12 No. 3. Were Every Thought an Eye 01:50
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 3. Were Every Thought an Eye
    Duration
    01:50
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Livia Rado, Alberto Mesirca
    Ensemble
    Flow My Dowland Ensemble
    Conductor
    Francesco Di Giorgio
  13. 13 No. 4. Can She Excuse my Wrongs? 03:02
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 4. Can She Excuse my Wrongs?
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Livia Rado, Alberto Mesirca
    Ensemble
    Flow My Dowland Ensemble
    Conductor
    Francesco Di Giorgio
  14. 14 No. 5. Flow my Tears 06:37
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 5. Flow my Tears
    Duration
    06:37
    Composer
    Fabio Vacchi
    Performer
    Livia Rado, Alberto Mesirca
    Ensemble
    Flow My Dowland Ensemble
    Conductor
    Francesco Di Giorgio