Utwory na płycie:

• PICCONE “Sinfonia per la mandola” in d minor - Allegro
• ARRIGONI “Sonata à Mandolino e Basso” in e minor - Allegro
• SCARLATTI Sonata in g minor K 88 - Minuet

Francesco Piccone (ca. 1685-ca. 1745):
“Sinfonia per la mandola” in d minor

Ludovico Fontanelli (ca. 1682-1748):
Sonata Transcription Filippo Della Casa (1736-post 1811)

Giovanni Battista Sammartini (1700 or 1701-1775):
“Sonata per Armandolino” in G major
Attributed to Leonardo Leo (1694-1744):
Grave Transcription - Filippo Della Casa

Carlo Arrigoni (1697-1744):
“Sonata a Mandolino e Basso” in e minor

Anonymous (Naples):
Grave Transcription - Filippo Della Casa

Domenico Scarlatti (1685 – 1757):
Sonata in g minor K 88

Giovanni Battista Gervasio (ca. 1725-ca. 1785):
“Sonata Per Camera di Mandolino e Basso” in D major

The ‘idea’ of the mandolin is mainly associated today with Italian folk music (primarily from Naples) and with the small pear-shaped instrument, its bent top and moveable bridge, and its tuning in fifths, identical to that of the violin. Duilio Galfetti and Luca Pianca present several pieces e.g. from Arrigoni, Piccone and Sammartini, composers, who use the instrument to the limits of its possibilities. The writing is in some cases extremely virtuosic and the musical forms correspond to those of the traditional Baroque aesthetic.

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Recorded in October 2011, at Auditorio Stelio Molo, Radiotelevisione Svizzera (RSI), Lugano (CH)