Ferdinando Carulli: Duo for Guitar and Fortepiano in E minor, Op.86, L. Saracino, M. Polumbo

Ferdinando Carulli - Gran Duo in E minor, Op.86 Leopoldo Saracino plays an original guitar Gaetano Guadagnini, 1820, Massimo Palumbo plays an original fortepiano Felix Gross, Wien 1812. 1. Allegro- 00:00 2. Largo – 07:12 3. Allegro – 12:44 Ferdinando Maria Meinrado Francesco Pascale Rosario Carulli (Naples, 9 February 1770 – Paris, 17 February 1841) was an Italian composer for classical guitar and the author of the influential Méthode complète pour guitare ou lyre, op. 27 (1810), which contains music still used by student guitarists today. He wrote a variety of works for classical guitar, including numerous solo and chamber works and several concertos. He was an extremely prolific writer, composing over 400 works for the instrument. „The works of Ferdinando Carulli evince the genuine and constant interest in this unusual instrumental combination (piano and guitar) of the Neapolitan composer, who was a convinced chamber musician and maintained a steady balance between virtuosity and didactic intent. The Gran Duo opus 86 is one os Carulli&most extensive and elaborate concertante compositions. It was published about 1814 in Paris by his friend and fellow-countryman Raffaele Carli (owner of the "Collection Carulli", the most substantial collection of Carulli publications) and shortly afterwards by Breitkopf and Hartel in Leipzig. The first movement, a Sonata Allegro, is characterised by the sorrowing insistence on cells that are reiterated from the initial theme, exposed...