Thank you very much, dear Sibarit101 for the rare and most enjoyable upload … Wonderful and always so enchanting music by Mauro Giuliani and beautiful performance … Also for your instructive notes … TY
This is a very interesting choice of piece from this album containing Giuliani complete concertos. I wonder if Giuliani arranged the original piece for Guitar and String Quartet himself or someone else has dabbled with it along the line? And also did the original work include the Polonaise, as it sounds slightly out of place following the previous music. More like a work on its own. Still, it's a delightful listen as is all the music by this composer.
Giuliani's quintet contains all three moves, but I do not know who made the orchestral part. I have already written that the record is from 1974, at that time there was not much information. Sorry. (I really thought the orchestral version was the original one, then I discovered on the net that only the quintet is registered as op.65. As a result I wrote the above note.)
@@DavidA-ps1qr my 5 cents... Orchestral part's caliber is so tiny, slightly more than sort of link between individual variations that I tend to guess Giuliani quickly did it on his own to adapt piece for an "en plan air" execution where a chamber version would not work. Perhaps during Schönbrunn team music days. I'm not a guitarist but I think guitar part is not that easy to be played by an amateur for occasional circumstances. Crisp and delightful piece. Variations are not at all a cliché on the contrary of several pieces using same air (including Beethoven's one that is very poor whereas Paganini set is genial).
