Dopium appointment, in recent days, in the Old City Of Taranto with the same denominator: the guitar. The first at 6pm at the Giovanni Paisiello Conservatory of Music in via Duomo, had as its protagonists the kids from the guitar class Maestro Andrea Monarda who have interpreted music belonging to a varied repertoire, from the Beatles to Berkeley, through Brouwer, Chopin, Dyens, Gilardino, Mertz, Mignone, Milan, up to Piazzolla, Tarrega and Sauget.
Students belonging to different years of the course: Giovanni Amatulli, Adriano Basile, Claudio Cossu, Dario Costantino, Alessandro d’Alessandro, Sofia Moscogiuri, Nicola Russo, Sofia Polito And Giovanni Casulli student of the flute class of Maestro Angelo Malerbashowed through the music performed, the progress achieved during the last year of study.
Followed on the same evening, but at 9pm, at the MuDi (Diocesan Museum) it was the turn of the guitar duo formed by Fabio Renda And Beniamino Trucco as part of the review “The strings that ring” organized by Friends of Music Arcangelo Speranza of Taranto.
The consolidated Turin duo, perfected at the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland in Lugano, already boasts ten years of concert activity, and on the MuDi stage they played with two XXX anniversary model twin guitars of the renowned luthier Paco Santiago Marín from Granadaa craftsman who in 2016 specially created two guitars for them using the same woods and the same construction techniques in order to ensure the two instruments have a substantially identical sound and the same acoustics, the best way for a guitar duo to express themselves.
In performance important authors both for the guitar but also for music more generally: the transcription of a sonata by Domenico Scarlatti by Alexander LagoyaThe Grand Duo Of Napoleon Coste which is one of the cathedrals of masterpieces for guitar duos, then Consonancias y Redobles Of Azio Corghi, song included in the aforementioned album which is based on a fragment of a fantasy by Louis de Milan (Spanish author of 1500), then the very famous Tango suite Of Astor Piazzolla originally written for two guitars in 1984 and the grand finale ofOvertour Of Gioacchino Rossini in the transcription made by Mauro Giuliani of the work Elizabeth Queen of England.
In general we can say that the guitar enjoys greater consideration today than in the past in concerts and chamber music events also thanks to the fact that guitarists have become more enterprising, coming out of the strictly guitarist shell to embrace new dimensions in ensembles of duo or quartet with other instruments, but also guitar and voice. Despite having a mainly solo repertoire like the piano, the guitar has a lot of chamber repertoire for guitar duos or quartets.
The Renda Trucco duo has a recording project to his credit which has already resulted in a record dedicated to Italian authors who wrote for a guitar duo called Prospettive italiana for the Milanese label Stradivarius, the same was recorded in the Molfetta recording studio with the sound engineer and teacher from Bari Giovanni Chiapparino and as director of recording the Maestro Andrea Monarda.
The audience applauded for a long time.
Daniele Lo Cascio
