{"id":7417,"date":"2017-07-25T14:28:51","date_gmt":"2017-07-25T21:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=7417"},"modified":"2017-07-25T14:28:51","modified_gmt":"2017-07-25T21:28:51","slug":"recent-releases-tuesday-albums-by-cristiano-poli-cappelli-duo-villa-lobos-and-giancarlo-dipierro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-releases-tuesday-albums-by-cristiano-poli-cappelli-duo-villa-lobos-and-giancarlo-dipierro\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Releases Tuesday: Albums by Cristiano Poli Cappelli, D\u00fao Villa-Lobos, and Giancarlo DiPierro"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the next few weeks, we’re going to break our usual\u00a0bi-weekly Tuesday format of alternating glimpses at new CDs with new sheet music releases, simply because we have so many new CDs coming in we need to catch up a bit! So, here are some of the CDs that have come into the\u00a0Classical Guitar<\/em>\u00a0office recently. We’ll have three more next week.<\/p>\n

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Some of these will be reviewed in the magazine, some not. But we want to at least mention them here. You can listen to some of these on various of streaming services, but we always encourage you to support the artists by actually\u00a0buying<\/em>\u00a0anything you like! Obviously we cannot research and report every outlet or online business where these albums are sold, so check your favorite places that sell CDs and downloads!<\/p>\n

To see our previous listings, scroll to the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n

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\nTansman: Complete Music for Solo Guitar<\/strong><\/em>
\nCristiano Poli Cappelli<\/strong>
\nBrilliant Classics, 2 CDs<\/p>\n

This one has actually been out for a while, but somehow it eluded me until now, and it definitely deserves a mention! Polish composer Alexandre Tansman<\/a> (1897\u20131986) is best known in the guitar world for his contributions to the repertoire of Andr\u00e9s Segovia beginning in the mid-1920s, and stretching all the way into the early 1970s. In Cristiano Poli Cappelli’s<\/a> notes, the Italian guitarist writes, “The music embodies a synthesis of varied or distant cultural elements that comprise the influence of Ravel and Scriabin, with echoes of French neoclassicism. Above all, however, it speaks for the composer’s deep love and respect for his native Poland.” Indeed, there are many styles spread across the nearly two-and-one-half hours of music on these two discs, including specific echoes of Chopin (Hommage \u00e0 Chopin<\/em>) and Bach (Inventions; Piece en forme de passacaille<\/em>), various mazurkas and other explicitly Polish themes (Suite in modo polonico<\/em>), Renaissance lute works (again, the Suite in modo polonico);<\/em>\u00a0and others either stated or implied.<\/p>\n

More than a decade ago, Marc Reignier made a single-CD Naxos album called Tansman: Guitar Music<\/em> (Complete)<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(which I have not heard), but Cappelli’s is apparently more<\/em> complete, with seven pieces not on the Reignier disc, including such wonderful works as the aforementioned Inventions<\/em>, Pi\u00e8ces Br\u00e9ves<\/em>, Quattro tempi di Mazurka<\/em>, and a treat outside the “solo guitar” label\u2014the four-part “Sonatine,” a duo featuring Cappelli with Andrea Pace; they previously recorded an album together of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s music for two guitars. The only fault I can find with this album is that the dates of the pieces were not included. But I’m here to help: You can find them here<\/a> at this website devoted to Tansman. Highly recommended!<\/p>\n

Cappelli’s Tansman<\/em>\u00a0guitar album is available \u00a0through Amazon<\/a>, streamed on Apple Music, downloaded through Spotify or iTunes, or heard in full (one piece at a time) on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ballade<\/em>; Cavatina<\/em>; Danza Pomposa<\/em>; Homage\u00a0\u00e0 Chopin<\/em>; Suite in modo polonico<\/em>; Inventions (Homage \u00e0 Bach)<\/em>; Pi\u00e8ce en forme de Pasacaille<\/em>; Sonatina<\/em>; Variations sur un th\u00e8me de Scriabin<\/em>; Prelude et interlude<\/em>; Suite<\/em>; Homage \u00e0 Lech Walesa<\/em>; Pi\u00e8ces Br\u00e8ves<\/em>, Mazurka<\/em>; Quattro tempi di Mazurka<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s audio of a movement from Tansman’s <\/em>Suite (1956):<\/em><\/p>\n