Abloniz / Milani: Tribute to Ida Presti
Abloniz / Milani: Tribute to Ida Presti
Format: CD
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Artist: Abloniz / Milani
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421955285
Genre: Classical
One of the greatest guitarists of all time,' remarked John Duarte in his entry on Ida Presti for Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Best-known in posterity as one half of the celebrated Presti-Lagoya duo, she is celebrated on this album as a composer and virtuoso in her own right, half a century after her unexpected death in the middle of a US concert tour, at just 43 years of age. In her booklet-note, Cinzia Milani remarks that she has always considered Presti a role-model, not only for her prodigious talent as a guitarist, but as a female musician in a culture and industry still often dominated by male authority. She presents here six studies by Presti herself, a Danse rhythmique and an Etude du matin, and Presti's tribute to her own hero, Segovia. Just as Presti dedicated the dance to her husband Lagoya, so Milani follows it with two works which he in turn dedicated to her. Then there are various works by composers little known outside guitar circles such as Miguel Ablóniz and indeed Duarte. Through all these works may be traced the joyous personality of Presti herself, summed up by her granddaughter Isabelle in the booklet as 'elegant nimbleness, luminous musicality and wonderful self-confidence'. She was friends with many of the composers such as Gontran Dessagnes, who wrote his Tendesse for her in 1954. The work by Guy Morancon is a tribute to her memory, composed in the wake of her death. Finally, Milani has written her own tribute, Quattro Mi, in admiration for the extraordinary facility of Presti in holding down the note E (Mi in solfege) on four different strings simultaneously. By it's nature, the album is unique in the catalogue, of immediate interest to guitarists and anyone curious about a great artist of the last century. The booklet contains contributions by the artist as well as by Isabelle Presti, granddaughter of Ida Presti.
Tracks:
1.1 Danse Rythmique
1.2 Caprice
1.3 Rêverie
1.4 Pequeña Romanza
1.5 Etude Du Matin
1.6 Idylle Pour Ida
1.7 Concert Study No. 1
1.8 Concert Study No. 8
1.9 Segovia
1.10 Tendresse
1.11 Quattro Mi
1.12 Sarabande
1.13 Etude 1
1.14 Etude 2
1.15 Etude 3
1.16 Etude 4
1.17 Etude 5
1.18 Etude 6
1.19 Analecta
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