L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – A Schubertiade with Arpeggione (2020) [Official Digital Download 24bit/176,4kHz]

L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – A Schubertiade with Arpeggione (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/176,4 kHz | Time – 01:03:42 minutes | 2,07 GB | Genre: Classical
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The arpeggione, invented in 1823 by the Viennese luthier Johann Georg Stauffer, had a curious destiny. As its alternative names ‘guitar violoncello’ and ‘guitare d’amour’ suggest, it is in fact a guitar fitted with a bridge, held between the knees like a cello and played with a bow. The instrument enjoyed some success for around a decade, but, oddly enough, almost nothing has survived from its specific repertory except one supreme masterpiece: the sonata Franz Schubert wrote for it in 1824. The guitar was very popular in Vienna at that time, and Schubert was also fond of it; the original version of Die schöne Müllerin was published with guitar accompaniment! Guido Balestracci and the musicians of L’Amoroso have built a delightful Schubertiad around this famous sonata, combining the arpeggione and the piano with voice and guitars to appropriate a rich selection of the Viennese composer’s lieder.

Tracklist:
01. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – Schöne Minka (03:34)
02. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – Sonatine No.1 in D Major, D. 384: I. Allegro molto (04:33)
03. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – Sonatine No.1 in D Major, D. 384: II. Andante (04:18)
04. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – Sonatine No.1 in D Major, D. 384: III. Allegro vivace (04:32)
05. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – Schwanengesang, D. 957: Ständchen (05:42)
06. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – An die Laute D. 905 (02:00)
07. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – Sonate für Arpeggione in A Minor, D. 821: I. Allegro moderato (12:07)
08. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – Sonate für Arpeggione in A Minor, D. 821: II. Adagio (03:56)
09. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – Sonate für Arpeggione in A Minor, D. 821: III. Allegretto (09:52)
10. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – Die schöne Müllerin, D. 795: Pause (04:04)
11. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – Schwanengesang, D. 957: Liebesbotschaft (03:04)
12. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – An die Nachtigall, D. 497 (01:46)
13. L’Amoroso & Guido Balestracci – Valse Le printemps, VWV 1177 (04:07)

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