Calace - Mandolin Concertos Nos.1 and 2 | Naxos 8570434

Calace - Mandolin Concertos Nos.1 and 2

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8570434

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 28th August 2007

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About

The son of a mandolin-maker, Raffaele Calace (1863–1934) became a distinguished virtuoso of the instrument, creating new possibilities by technical modifications of the instrument. He was a virtuoso mandolinist and a prolific composer – he wrote about 170 works for mandolin and piano alone.
 
His Concertos, originally written for mandolin and piano, are substantial three-movement works which contrast, in both cases, a profound and striking first movement, a reflective and emotionally charged slow movement, and a skittish, virtuosic third movement.
 
If a single musical example could demonstrate the range, emotion and expressiveness of the mandolin, it is the slow movement of Concerto No. 1.
 
Alison Stephens clearly loves this instrument and plays it with a passion and flair that Captain Corelli himself would doubtless have relished.” BBC Music Magazine

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