{"id":8462,"date":"2017-11-29T15:36:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-29T23:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=8462"},"modified":"2017-11-30T09:11:30","modified_gmt":"2017-11-30T17:11:30","slug":"recent-albums-guitar-and-violin-luciano-and-mauro-tortorelli-mezzo-soprano-eva-beneke-and-nerea-berraondo-and-cello-jose-lezcano-and-rebecca-hartka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-albums-guitar-and-violin-luciano-and-mauro-tortorelli-mezzo-soprano-eva-beneke-and-nerea-berraondo-and-cello-jose-lezcano-and-rebecca-hartka\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Albums: Guitar and\u2026 Violin (Luciano and Mauro Tortorelli), Mezzo-soprano (Eva Beneke and Nerea Berraondo), and Cello (Jos\u00e9 Lezcano and Rebecca Hartka)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most weeks we take a peak at recent albums or sheet music releases. Here are three of the CDs that have come into the\u00a0Classical Guitar<\/em>\u00a0office recently.<\/p>\n

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Some of the albums we talk about online will be reviewed in the magazine, some not. But we want to at least mention most of 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

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\nFrancesco Molino: Sonate per chitarra e violino
\n<\/em><\/strong>Luciano Tortorelli (guitar), Mauro Tortorelli (violin)
\n<\/strong>Tactus<\/p>\n

Francesco Molino (1768\u20131847) was a well-known Italian composer, teacher, guitarist, and violinist who made his name in Paris near the beginning of the 19th century. This disc consists of world premiere recordings of two sets of three sonatas written for guitar and violin in 1812 and 1813, all very much products of that Classical, pre-Romantic age. Four of the six follow a three-movement format of Allegro<\/em>, Romanza\/Andantino<\/em> (and in one case, Adagio<\/em>), and Rondo\/Allegretto<\/em> or Allegro<\/em>;\u00a0<\/em>the other two cut out the Romanza <\/em>movement. In Mario Torta’s informative notes, he points out that it is significant that Molino billed these works as being “for guitar with violin accompaniment”; in other words, giving the guitar more prominence than one often finds in works featuring the guitar in tandem with another instrument. Indeed, the guitar parts are delightfully prominent and sumptuous, at least an equal partner throughout. Torta also comments on the “simplicity and restraint of [Molino’s] style… the ‘gracefulness’ of his approach to composition that somehow sets him apart from from the more exuberant models, such as [contemporaries] Giuliani and Carulli. The delicacy and clearness of his writing express his great mastery in the use of instruments… ” The playing by Italy’s Tortorelli brothers is superb. Very impressive, and also a lot of fun!<\/p>\n

Sonata 1, op. 2<\/em>; Sonata II, op. 2<\/em>; Sonata 3, op.2<\/em>; Sonata 1, op. 7<\/em>, Sonata II, op. 7<\/em>, Sonata III, op. 7<\/em><\/p>\n

The album can be heard and purchased through Naxos,<\/a>\u00a0Amazon<\/a>, and, in Europe,\u00a0Tactus<\/a>; and heard on Spotify<\/a> and piecemeal on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n