Announcing Gaetano Donizetti’s Larghetto “Una furtiva lagrima” for Piano Solo What follows is an extract from M° Fabrizio Capitanio’s notes at the beginning of this edition. Find the full edition here and watch the promo video here. NOTE EDITORIALI “Larghetto” [Una furtiva lagrima] Coming back to the composition of the playful melodrama Elisir d’amore, everythingContinue reading “La Bergamasque — Episode 4”
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Knock, knock!?
an Artistic Score Engraving update from July 2024 Dear all, Welcome back to the monthly update. Here in Italy, summer has just arrived, leaving behind a rainy Spring. This instalment will be very brief: only one edition was published, and May was a very busy month. Besides, I’ve been running this series of newsletters forContinue reading “Knock, knock!?”
ARRANGEMENTS – EP. 5
More cellos is always fun! Announcing the updated edition of the “Cello Orchestral Companion to the Suzuki Violin School – Book 2” In schools using the Suzuki Method it is usual to perform music taken from the children’s repertoire books with the orchestra. The main problem with this approach is that, being violinists usually manyContinue reading “ARRANGEMENTS – EP. 5”
La Bergamasque — Episode 3
Together with Gioachino **Rossini** (1792–1868), Gaetano **Donizetti** (1797–1848) was one of the greatest Italian opera composers of the first half of the XIX century to dedicate himself with assiduity and commitment to instrumental music, a production almost entirely relegated to his years of apprenticeship.
Arrangements — Episode 3
_Goyescas,_ an opera in one act and three tableaux by Spanish composer Enrique **Granados** (1867–1916), saw the light in 1915, based on the libretto by Fernando **Periquet** y Zuaznaba and based on melodies taken from the eponymous Suite for piano solo written by Granados himself four years before.
