Sandrini, Paul : Musique de Chambre avec guitare

Description

Paul Sandrini’s Musique de Chambre avec guitare is an album devoted to rediscovering and showcasing a composer long forgotten by history. His chamber works — duos for flute and guitar as well as for voice and guitar — reflect the characteristic style of the early 19th century, music that enjoyed great success in the cities of the Austro-Hungarian Empire at the time. This recording offers a carefully selected choice of Sandrini’s most significant and representative works, providing an insight into his musical writing. The album opens with a theme and variations for solo guitar, which highlights the main compositional techniques for guitar in the early 19th century. The Duo concertant for flute and guitar, Op. 12, as well as the Sonata for flute and guitar, are both devoted to this instrumental combination. The pairing of flute and guitar, widely appreciated by Sandrini’s contemporaries, proves particularly effective here: it offers a subtle balance of tonal colors and allows the flute to unfold passages of great virtuosity, while retaining a light and brilliant character.