Guido Fichtner - Paganini: Guitar Sonatas Nos. 1-37 (2007)

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Artist: Guido Fichtner
Title: Paganini: Guitar Sonatas Nos. 1-37
Year Of Release: 2007
Label: Dynamic
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks + booklet)
Total Time: 1:54:56
Total Size: 544 MB
WebSite: Album Preview

Tracklist:

01. I. Minuetto
02. II. Andantino
03. I. (Minuetto)
04. II. Allegretto ossia Rondoncino
05. I. Minuetto
06. II. Valtz
07. I. Minuetto
08. II. Rondoncino
09. I. Minuetto
10. II. Andantino
11. I. Minuetto
12. II. Allegretto
13. I. Minuetto
14. II. Valtz
15. I. Minuetto
16. II. Allegretto scherzando
17. I. Minuetto
18. II. Valtz
19. I. Minuetto
20. II. Valtz
21. Guitar Sonata No. 11 in A Major, MS 84
22. I. (Minuetto)
23. II. Allegretto
24. I. Minuetto
25. II. Andantino
26. I. Minuetto
27. II. Valtz: Allegretto
28. I. Minuetto
29. II. Perligordino: Allegretto
30. I. Minuetto
31. II. Allegretto
32. I. Minuetto
33. II. Perligordino
34. I. (Minuetto)
35. II. Allegretto
36. I. Minuetto
37. II. Allegretto
38. I. (Minuetto)
39. II. Valtz
40. I. Minuetto
41. II. Valtz
42. I. Minuetto
43. II. Andantino
44. I. Minuetto detto il Matto
45. II. Allegretto
46. III. Allegretto
47. I. Minuetto
48. II. Andantino
49. I. Minuetto
50. II. Valtz
51. I. Minuetto per la Signora Marina
52. II. Allegretto
53. I. Minuetto per la Signora Marina
54. II. Valtz
55. I. Minuetto
56. II. Andantino Amoroso
57. I. Minuetto
58. II. Andantino
59. I. Minuetto
60. II. Allegro
61. I. Minuetto
62. II. Rondoncino: Valtz
63. I. Minuetto
64. II. Valtz
65. I. Minuetto
66. II. Andantino
67. Guitar Sonata No. 34 in A Major, MS 84
68. Guitar Sonata No. 35 in E Major, MS 84
69. Guitar Sonata No. 36 in A Major, MS 84
70. Guitar Sonata No. 37 in A Major, MS 84

As well as being an indispensabile instrument for accompanying violin sonatas, trios and quartets, the guitar was often used by Paganini as a solo instrument, especially during the years of his youth. All Paganini’s guitar compositions are written for ”chittarra [sic] francese”, as the musician frequently defined it, that is the guitar with six simple strings. In the last decade of the eighteenth

century this new type of guitar had definitively replaced the old five-string model, also known as the ”Spanish guitar”. The 37 Sonatas M.S. 84 are mostly two-movement compositions (only the eleventh and the last four are single-movement works), on the model of the sonatas for violin and guitar. The one thing that is missing, compared to these sonatas, is a genuine slow movement.

The first movement is always a Minuetto in 3/4 time, and is often of virtuoso character, whilst the second may be an Allegretto, a Valtz, a Rondoncino, etc. This recording was made using a copy of the Panormo guitar of 1822 built by the Renato Barone. In the ritornelli, Guido Fichtner has added occasional little variations and embellishments to Paganini’s score, offering a reading that is highly virtuoso, brilliant and full of imagination to these original, important examples of the history of the guitar in the nineteenth century.

Guido Fichtner - Paganini: Guitar Sonatas Nos. 1-37.rar - 544.7 MB