Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, a composer featured on this album, dedicated a year of his youth to writing a fugue every day to master the form, despite his teacher believing he was already skilled.
Composition History
Luigi Boccherini, a composer on this album, arranged twelve of his quintets for two violins, two violas, and cello by replacing one viola with a guitar to please his patron, the Marquis of Benavente, who played guitar.
Composition History
Giacomo Puccini, another composer featured, wrote his string quartet Crisantemi (chrysanthemums) in a single night after being deeply moved by the news of Duke Amedeo of Aosta's death in 1890.
Recording & Production
This album features guitars by Rafael Galán (1927) and Francisco Simplicio (1931), recorded in the Chiesa di S. Stefano, Rovato (Brescia, Italy) in 2015 and 2016.
Historical Context
The expansion of the repertoire for guitar duo began in the early 1960s, sparked by the duo of Ida Presti, a great French concert guitarist, and Alexandre Lagoya, an Egyptian-born guitarist of Greek descent.
Composition History
Castelnuovo-Tedesco's Fuga Elegiaca for two guitars was written to commemorate Ida Presti, the great French guitarist, who died unexpectedly in 1967.
Performer Biography
Piera Dadomo and Vincenzo Torricella, the guitar duo on this album, have a friendship spanning 30 years and have collaborated with playwrights and directors on monographic theatrical performances.
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