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Leopold Mozart
Sinfonia Pastorella
Giovanni D’Aquila
The great Horn of Helm
Ferenc Farkas
Concertino Rustico
Antonio Iafigliola
Un suono notturno
Nicola Hansalik Samale
Walpurgis Nacht
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ALPHORN AND STRING QUARTET
As a consequence of the many requests from the Artistic Directors to have the Alphorn in their Chamber Music Festivals, I elaborated a purely Alphorn Chamber Proposal which could also fit in small stage, indoors or outdoors, usually used for the Chamber Music.
So, some composers adjusted their works for Alphorn and string quartet.
This has been a great challenge, more then what we expected.
Matter of fact the beauty of the melody, the pleasant atmosphere, the purity of the sound are even more in evidence. |
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REPERTOIRE |
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Giovanni D’Aquila
(1966) |
The great Horn of Helm (2003)
for alphorn and string quartet |
Leopold Mozart
(1719-1787) |
Sinfonia Pastorella (1755)
for alphorn and string quartet |
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Antonio Iafigliola
(1954) |
Un suono notturno (1999)
for alphorn and string quartet |
Nicola Hansalik Samale
(1941) |
Walpurgisnacht (2003)
for alphorn and string quartet |
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SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORKS |
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The great Horn of Helm
“The great Horn of Helm” was written for me by Giovanni D'Aquila and after the Primiere in the magical “Valle dei Templi” in Agrigento (Sicily-Italy), I had the great pleasure to play it all over the world.
Just like the orchestra version the chamber version produces a fine atmosphere and the audience receives a great pleasure.
I performed the Premiere of “The great Horn of Helm” for Alphorn and string quartet in 2009 at the Pirano Chamber Music Festival (Slovenia) with the Salzburg Chamber Soloists Quartet.
Sinfonia Pastorella
Leopold Mozart was impressed by the magnificence of the Alphorn and he decided to include it in his “Sinfonia Pastorella”. This work is very appropriated for a chamber version and to be performer by an Alphorn and a string quartet.
I had the great pleasure to play for the first time the string quartet version at Leopold Mozart Centrum in Augsburg, where Leopold Mozart was born.
Un Suono Notturno
The compositions by Antonio Iafigliola characterized by an extreme essentiality of the material. His works have been performed in Europe, United States, South America, Egypt and Japan.
Iafigliola composed “Un suono notturno” (A night sound) for me in 1999 and I played the Premiere of the chamber version in 2001 at the prestigious Newport Music Festival (USA).
The composer descrive his work as: fews sounds, far away; and others, further still, perhaps. Impalpable, nevertheless distinctive, transparent. Hallucinations. The night, if wachful, can catch subtle impressions.
Walpurgisnacht
Nicola Hansalik Samale, the composer that has completed the Bruckner's Symphony and Mahler's Symphony. The “Samale Version” of Bruckner (Symphony No.9) was recorded by Simon Rattle and the Berlin Philharmonic (EMI Classic). He composed for me “Walpurgisnacht" and after the Premiere in Cordoba (Spain) there were other performances. Mr. Samale has recentely adjusted his work for me and it gives the same beautiful feeling. |
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