AMBROSINI Songbook for Guitar

Record and Artist Details

Composer or Director: Claudio Ambrosini

Genre:

Instrumental

Label: Kairos

Media Format: CD or Download

Media Runtime: 74

Mastering:

DDD

Catalogue Number: 0015012KAI

0015012KAI. AMBROSINI Songbook for Guitar

Tracks:

Composition Artist Credit
Arie e danze Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
I‘mbrazilian Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Tre Studi 'en plein air' Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Canzone d‘ombre Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Nulla nox sine linea Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Notturno con sogno Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Priapo assiderato Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Ciaccona in labirinto Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Tantalo sorridente Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Canzone molle Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Rap Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Canzone a perdere Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Song of Innocence, Song of Experience Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Tre Studi sulla prospettiva Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
3 Holograms Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Alberto Mesirca, Guitar
Claudio Ambrosini, Composer
Is it going too far to say that Claudio Ambrosini has written, in his 1975 work for solo guitar Notturno (Tombeau per Jimi H), an elegy rivalling Manuel de Falla’s Homenaje pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy? Not really; for in deploying a combination of techniques associated with blues and rock as well as classical styles – string bends, slides, harmonics, slurs and so forth – with the same heightened spatial, timbral and colouristic sensibilities exhibited in all the remarkable works on this superb recording, Ambrosini evokes a wistful lugubriousness that is as personal as it is intensely intimate.

Alberto Mesirca’s fluent, committed interpretations find a similar mood presiding over certain passages in Ambrosini’s other, more delicately rendered nocturnes, such as the Notturno con sogno. Nevertheless, he equally relishes the more florid and almost violent musical gestures that characterise much of Ambrosini’s work. Take the opening percussive Arie e danze, the hectic Rap or the agitated Priapo assiderato, exploding with string slaps and crazed trills before drifting off in a dreamy glissando. Then there are the jazzy I’mbrazilian, the Impressionistic chiaroscuro of Canzone d’ombre, the Janus-like Ciaccona in labirinto (called Ciaccona del giglio) and the witty ‘Arcimboldo docet’ (Three Holograms), in which the player coughs, sighs and kisses in duet with the guitar.

Ambrosini draws on a diverse range of styles but he does so to forge a unique language, which, in the context of the classical guitar at least, is more introverted than projecting outwards. It’s hard to believe only a handful of these pieces had previously been recorded. Harder to believe none is published – which this outstanding release surely looks set to change.

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