{"id":8834,"date":"2018-01-05T14:43:03","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T22:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=8834"},"modified":"2018-01-05T14:56:33","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T22:56:33","slug":"video-pick-of-the-week-alessandra-luisi-and-giusi-marangi-play-pierre-wissmers-prestilagoyana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/video-pick-of-the-week-alessandra-luisi-and-giusi-marangi-play-pierre-wissmers-prestilagoyana\/","title":{"rendered":"Video Pick of the Week: Alessandra Luisi and Giusi Marangi Play Pierre Wissmer&#8217;s &#8216;Prestilagoyana&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Between Cinzia Milani&#8217;s fine recent\u00a0<em>A Tribute Ida Presti<\/em> and Candice Mowbray&#8217;s excellent\u00a0<em>Reverie<\/em> album\u2014not to mention some deep listening to my multi-disc <em>L&#8217;Art de Alexandre Lagoya avec Ida Presti<\/em>\u2014I&#8217;ve been wrapped up in the glorious world of Presti and Lagoya (together and apart) for a a few months now. What a duo, and their career was, of course, cut short by Presti&#8217;s death in 1967. Even so, they set the modern standard for guitar duos.<\/p>\n<p>Our first Pick of the Week for 2018 was written two years after Presti&#8217;s death by Swiss-born French composer Pierre Wissmer (1915\u20131992), a highly regarded and prolific writer of symphonies, concertos for various instruments, music for opera, voice, ballet, chamber music\u2014and several pieces for guitar, including a concerto, a work for flute and guitar, and this piece written for two guitars, obviously in tribute to the Presti Lagoya Duo; a very interesting work.<\/p>\n<p>Performing the piece is Italy&#8217;s Duo Fantasque: Alessandra Luisi and Giusi Marangi. Both earned advanced music degrees from the Conservatory &#8220;Nino Rota&#8221; in Monopoli (just south of Bari in Puglia, on the stunning Adriatic coast of southern Italy). They&#8217;ve played together since 2007, winning many prizes in competitions throughout Italy in the years since, as well as playing solo. I think you&#8217;ll agree they play beautifully.\u00a0\u00a0\u2014<em>Blair Jackson<\/em><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-8840\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/duo-fantasque-1-1024x683.jpg?resize=1024%2C683\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/duo-fantasque-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/duo-fantasque-1.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/duo-fantasque-1.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/duo-fantasque-1.jpg?resize=360%2C240&amp;ssl=1 360w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/duo-fantasque-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;ssl=1 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><em>Duo Fantasque: Alessandra Luisi (L) and Giusi Marangi<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Between Cinzia Milani&#8217;s fine recent\u00a0A Tribute Ida Presti and Candice Mowbray&#8217;s excellent\u00a0Reverie album\u2014not to mention some deep listening to my multi-disc L&#8217;Art de Alexandre Lagoya avec Ida Presti\u2014I&#8217;ve been wrapped up in the glorious world of Presti and Lagoya (together and apart) for a a few months now. What a duo, and their career was, of course, cut short by Presti&#8217;s death in 1967. Even so, they set the modern standard for guitar duos. Our first Pick of the Week [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/duo-fantasque-2.jpg?fit=921%2C475&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}