TRAVEL NOTES New music for the viola da gamba
Paolo Pandolfo with Andrea Pandolfo, Laura Polimeno et al.
GCD P30407
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Performing artists
Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba Andrea Pandolfo, trumpet Laura Polimeno, voice Álvaro Garrido, percussion
Production details
Playing time: 61’31 Recorded by Manuel Mohino in Namur (Belgium) in September 2003, except ‘Baghdad’s Spring’, recorded by Isidro Matamoros in Robledo de Chavela (Spain) in June 2003 Produced by Manuel Mohino, Andrea Pandolfo and Paolo Pandolfo Executive producer: Carlos Céster Editorial assistant: María Díaz Artwork: oficina tresminutos 00:03:00 Booklet essay: Paolo Pandolfo Booklet in English-Français-Español-Deutsch
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TRAVEL NOTES
Note di viaggio - New music for the viola da gamba
1 Keep Going 2 Albanese 3 Brothers 4 La Florentine 5 Metamorphosis 6 Nana Bobò 7 8 Maggio 8 Il Sogno di Proserpina 9 Baghdad’s Spring10 Prairies
All compositions by Paolo Pandolfo, except ‘Albanese’ by Andrea Pandolfo
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Pandolfo es un músico comprometido con su instrumento y con su tiempo, de mente inquieta, en ocasiones atormentada, que se plantea sin cesar su papel como violagambista casi tres siglos después de la práctica desaparición de su instrumento. El pasado año 2003, se dieron por fin las circunstancias necesarias para la realización de una idea de contornos imprecisos e inciertos...
Concebido al principio como proyecto discográfico para viola sola, días antes de comenzar las primeras sesiones de grabación, y casi por casualidad, se unieron a la aventura la cantante Laura Polimeno y el hermano de Paolo, el trompetista Andrea Pandolfo. De esta manera se materializaron las condiciones para dos verdaderas sorpresas: por una parte, un disco de viola de gamba enteramente hecho con música actual, moderna, y por otra la creación de una sonoridad absolutamente inédita y fascinante, producida por la viola unida a latrompeta y la voz.
El resultado es de una profunda e inusual belleza. Grabado en España (Robledo de Chavela) y Bélgica (Namur), estamos ante un disco verdaderamente importante, de los que dan sentido a un sello discográfico comprometido no sólo con la cuidadosa reconstrucción de sonoridades del pasado, sino también –y sobre todo– con la proyección de toda esta inmensa riqueza hacia un futuro tan necesitado de planteamientos estéticosinteligentes.
It seemed that the music of Carl Friedrich Abel was proving singularly impervious to modern performance initiatives. More is known about the life and times of this Köthen-born composer than about his actual music (he can be placed as a pupil of JS Bach and as someone who died in the year of the 17 year-old Beethoven’s first visit to Vienna). Yet it was as a virtuosic improviser on the by then (surely?) outdated instrument of the viola da gamba that Abel was equally known for by his contemporaries. So, the most suitable candidate in the 21st century for bringing back Abel’s music to its rightful place needs to be not only a supreme interpreter on the viola da gamba and steeped in its repertory but one capable of understanding the almost lost art of improvisation. [read more...]
Widely admired as a virtuoso exponent of the viola da gamba through his concert performances and recordings of key composers from Germany, France, Spain, England and his native Italy, Paolo Pandolfo has in recent years been concentrating on his instincts and skills for improvising and composing (not to mention continuing with his teaching). An artist who can bring out the expressive vitality and poetry in the viol music of composers such as Sainte-Colombe, Marin Marais or J.S. Bach is plainly also relishing the challenges of other musical explorations that have included, on disc, an unaccompanied tour de force in A Solo and a travelogue (from this artist who is a modern, high-tech nomad himself) in Travel Notes. [read more...]