Music for Flute and Guitar Daniele Ruggieri & Alberto Mesirca

• George Rochberg (1918 - 2005):
• 1 Muse of Fire for Flute and Guitar 19:01
• 2 Ora pro nobis for Flute and Guitar 11:08
• Terry Riley (b. 1935): Cantos desiertos for Flute and Guitar:
• 3 Cantos desiertos for Flute and Guitar: I. Francesco en Paraiso 05:16
• 4 Cantos desiertos for Flute and Guitar: II. Cancion desierto 06:54
• 5 Cantos desiertos for Flute and Guitar: III. Quijote 04:22
• 6 Cantos desiertos for Flute and Guitar: IV. Llanto 03:56
• 7 Cantos desiertos for Flute and Guitar: V. Tango ladeado 03:18
• Marc Ribot (b. 1954):
• 8 Bateau for Guitar 04:55
• Osvaldo Golijov (b. 1960):
• 9 Fish Tale for Flute and Guitar 11:20
• Charles Wuorinen (b. 1938):
• 10 Hexadactyl for Guitar 02:26
• Ruth Crawford Seeger (1901 - 1953): Diaphonic Suite for Flute:
• 11 Diaphonic Suite for Flute: I. Scherzando 00:49
• 12 Diaphonic Suite for Flute: II. Andante 02:15
• 13 Diaphonic Suite for Flute: III. Allegro 01:02
• 14 Diaphonic Suite for Flute: IV. Moderato ritmico 00:50
• Mark Delpriora (b. 1959):
• 15 Elegia for Guitar 02:22
• Total Runtime 01:19:54

Info for Music for Flute and Guitar

A brief history of 20th-century American music and a valuable, offbeat addition to the comprehensive Brilliant Classics library of guitar music.

Among the most extensive works here is the cycle of Cantos Desiertos (1996) composed for flute and guitar by Terry Riley. The cycle was later incorporated within The Book of Abbeyzoud, an album with a character suspended between the Biblical, the mystical and the exotic. Francesco en Paraiso is a tender memorial to the countertenor Frank Royon Le Mée (1952-1993). The cycle continues with an Indian melody, and a melancholy lament before ending with a sultry Tango Ladeado (Tango Off-Centre).

Hardly less substantial is Muse of Fire (1990) by George Rochberg, written in the shadow of the Gulf War: hence the sudden stops and starts, the military evocations, the funeral marches, the moments of dream-like lyricism and the rhapsodic soliloquies. Ora pro nobis (1991) is based on the slow movement of Bach’s Italian Concerto: a plea for release at a deeply troubled time.

Bateau is a song from the 2003 album Ceramic Dog by Marco Ribot, who works mostly with jazz and post-rock musicians: this is the work’s first performance on classical guitar, and Alberto Mesirca brings out the delicate textures that evoke light shimmering on water. Of similar aquatic origins, Fish Tale is a ‘watercolour for flute and guitar’ by Osvaldo Golijov: ‘I wanted everything to be beautiful,’ said the composer, ‘even at the expense of some sense.’

This unique compilation concludes with shorter solo pieces alternating between flute and guitar, taking in the satisfyingly intricate textures of Crawford Seeger and Wuorinen at each end of American modernism, as well as a touching elegy by Mark Delpriora in memory of a student of his, Basil Keiser.

This is the third solo album on Brilliant Classics by the guitarist Alberto Mesirca after his collections of music by Regondi (94841) and Sanz (95396).



Daniele Ruggieri, flute
Alberto Mesirca, guitar

Daniele Ruggieri
completed his studies in Venice where he graduated with the highest marks under Guido Novello and subsequently in Geneva where he was awarded the first Prix de Virtuosité in the class of Maxence Larrieu. He has been awarded several prizes including international competitions for chamber music in Stresa, Trapani, Caltanissetta and Casale Monferrato. He has been intensely active on the concert circuit for several years taking part in major European festivals. These have included: Settembre Musica, Turin; Settimane della Scarlatti, Naples; Musica '88, Strasbourg; Eco & Narciso, Milan; MiTo, Turin; Nuove Musiche, Teatro Massimo, Palermo; Concerts Ville de Genève; Gulbenkian, Lisbon; The Venice Music Biennale; HCMF, Huddersfield, RomaEuropa, Villa Medici; Warsaw Autumn Festival; Akademie der Künste, Berlin; Gaudeamus Foundation, Amsterdam; Italia-España, Madrid; Festival d'Avignon; Ars Musica, Brussels, Time for music, Vitasaari, Finland; Suså Festival, Denmark, and the chamber music season of the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, the Salzburg Mozarteum, La Scala, Milan, the Teatro S. Carlo in Naples, the Hamburg Musikhalle, the Kaufmann Concert Hall, New York and the Chicago Cultural Center. Moreover he premiered Salvatore Sciarrino’s Adagio accompanied by the La Fenice Orchestra and made his Japanese debut at the Denki Bunka Kaikan in Nagoya accompanied by the Central Symphony Orchestra. He actively collaborates with the Ex Novo Ensemble of Venice of which he is a founding member; with the Ensemble and as a soloist he has recorded more than twenty CDs for ASV, Black Box, Brilliant Classics, Resonance, Denon, Dynamic, Naxos, Stradivarius, Tactus, Ricordi and other labels. He has also recorded concerts and programmes for all the principal European Radio stations: BBC, RAI, Radio France, Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), Belgian Radio (RBFT), the Swiss German language Radio (DRS) and Swedish Radio.

Alberto Mesirca
The American Record Guide praised his Scarlatti as “The best Scarlatti I’ve heard on solo guitar”, and Classical Guitar Magazine wrote: “Superb recording from the prodigiously talented Mesirca”.

Alberto Mesirca is an Italian guitarist born in 1984.

He completed his Bachelor and Master of Arts at the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto, in the class of the eminent teacher Gianfranco Volpato, ending them with highest score, “Summa cum laude” and special honor mention. Further studies were made at the Music Academy of Kassel, in Germany, with Wolfgang Lendle. His Konzert-Examen was praised with highest Honors. He won for two times the “Golden Guitar”, for best recording in 2007 and as Best Upcoming Artist of the Year in 2009.

With the collaboration of Hopkinson Smith and Franco Pavan he published the previously unknown and unpublished compositions by Francesco Da Milano which appeared in the Castelfranco Veneto 1565 Lute Manuscript, distributed now by Orphee Editions. The re-discovery led Dusan Bogdanovic to write a composition for Alberto on a theme of Da Milano called “Tre Ricercari sulla Compagna”.

He was nominated in 2009 assistant of the Guitar Class at the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto.

In hundreds of concerts he had the chance to work with excellent musicians such as Dimitri Ashkenazy, Vladimir Mendelssohn, Martin Rummel, Daniel Rowland, Domenico Nordio, Marco De Santi, Andras Adorjan, Peter and Jonas Giger, Mirko Satto, the Enesco, Ardeo and Acies string quartets, Quartetto d’Archi di Venezia, ChamberJam Europe and Ex Novo Ensemble. The past two years have been characterized by an intensive period of performances, lectures and masterclasses which brought him at the Auckland University (New Zealand), at the Guitar Foundation of America Convention (Georgia, USA), at the Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival (Finland), playing the national premiere of a composition of György Kurtàg, after the recent collaboration with the composer, and for the Stradivari Foundation, at the Silesian Guitar Autumn in Tychy (Poland) and the Festival Classique in The Hague, at the Beethoven Festival in Melbourne (Australia) among many others, as well as performances at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Regio in Parma, Auditori Nacional in Valencia, Kunsthalle Wien, and for the Italian Insitutes of Culture of Paris, Oslo, Helsinki, Stockholm, and Barcelona.

In collaboration with Marc Ribot he recorded the complete guitar works of the Haitian composer Frantz Casséus; for this recording he is candidate for “Best Solo Performance” at the 2012 Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

In december 2011 Alberto was responsible of the digitalization and creation of the Musical Archive of the Beyazit Library in Istanbul, Turkey.

Alberto Mesirca has premiered a composition at the 2013 Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival composed for him by Leo Brouwer.

In 2013 his recording British Guitar Music, published by Paladino Music OG, has won the Golden Guitar for “Best Recording of the Year”.

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