Gaetano Pugnani News
Italian violinist and composer
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2024-03-07 05:00:00
Pugnani: Overtures in Eight Parts (Luigi Mangiacavallo, Academia Montis Regalis)
2024-02-15 07:23:00
A Lionel Tertis Celebration: Timothy Ridout, Frank Dupree, James Baillieu; Harmonia Mundi
[…] from beginning to end very often. That said, Ridout's playing throughout is enough to make a raison d'être for the set. YORK BOWEN (1884-1961) - Viola Sonata No. 1, Op. 18 LIONEL TERTIS (1876-1975) - Sunset FRANK BRIDGE (1879-1941) - Pensiero; Allegro appassionato JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833-1897) - Minnelied ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856) - Romance GABRIEL FAURÉ (1845-1924) - Élégie WILLIAM WOLSTENHOLME (1865-1931) - Allegretto FRITZ KREISLER (1875-1962) - Liebesleid; Praeludium & Allegro (in the style of Pugnani) WILLIM HENRY REED (1876-1942) - Rhapsody ERIC COATES (1886-1957) - First Meeting (Souvenir) RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS (1872-1958) - Six Studies in English Folk Song CECIL FORSYTH (1870-1941) - Chanson celtique JOHN IRELAND (1879-1962) - The Holy Boy FELIX MENDELSSOHN (1809-1847) - Song Without Words LIONEL TERTIS - Hier au soir WILLIAM WOLSTENHOLME - The Question YORK BOWEN - Obbligato to Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata REBECCA CLARKE (1886-1979) - Viola SonataTimothy Ridout (viola)Frank Dupree (piano)James Baillieu […]
2024-02-06 07:24:00
Late romantic at Wigmore Hall: Timothy Ridout & Frank Dupree in York Bowen and Rebecca Clarke
[…] again, the ending with the return of earlier material was one of untrammelled passion. Like Ethel Smyth and Augusta Holmes, Rebecca Clarke shocked some of her contemporaries precisely because the music she wrote was not perceived as 'ladylike'. Ridout and Dupree however revelled in this atmosphere, bringing a youthful muscularity to the performance that was totally engaging.After the interval we heard Fritz Kreisler's Praeludium and Allegro which he initially passed off as being in the style of Pugnani(!). Here we heard it in a transcription which was performed by Tertis. Ridout brought energy and passion to the Praeludium but there was poetry too, whilst the Allegro was pure virtuoso fun and energy. The viola is a bigger instrument than the violin, so that all the bravura elements had a more muscular quality which was very appealing, rendered brilliantly by Ridout.York Bowen was from the other place; rather than belonging to the coterie of […]
2023-11-12 04:01:00
[…] and the progressions basically use the exact same chords except Kreisler indulges in a few more major sevenths, a sonority not super common in Common Practice Period Harmony, but which adds an extra layer of pathos to both sequences.Here they are played one after the other (by Pinchas Zukerman and Tasmin Little) and then - of course! - played simultaneously. Kreisler's work is one of the original pieces he originally credited to an "ancient" composer (Pugnani), but I would guess Kreisler would have known the already Romanticized Nardini concerto and might very well have borrowed these chords, whether purposefully or accidentally. Of course, both works go their own directions after starting these phrases with that identical progression, but each composer leverages the logical structure of a Classical progression (movement by descending fifths has a particularly strong sense of forward […]
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