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CARULLI, F.: Guitar and Piano Music, Vol. 2 (Franz and Debora Halasz)

Composer(s):Carulli, FerdinandoCarulli, Gustavo
Artist(s) Halasz, Franz, guitar • Halasz, Debora, piano
Period(s) Classical (1750-1830)
Genre Classical Music
Category Chamber Music
Catalogue 8.570588
Label Naxos
Quality   320kbps
Album Price
 
MP3
USD 6.99
 

 


Franz and Débora Halász continue their revelatory exploration of Ferdinando and Gustavo Carulli’s neglected yet highly appealing music. As popular with the glamorous Parisian salon set as with music-loving families who played them at home, these sparkling and melodious works brim with virtuosity and vivacity. Original compositions rub shoulders with mélanges of beloved opera melodies and arrangements of operatic overtures, variations, waltzes and dazzlingly dancing duos. The artists have been praised for their ‘perfect rhythmic and tonal agreement’. Volume 1 is available on 8.570587.


   




Review By ,www.agas-schmitz.com,January 2010

agas gesteht, das im Frühjahr letzten Jahres vorgestellte erste Album mit Musik für Gitarre und Piano von Ferdinando und Gustavo Carulli [Naxos 8.570587.9], nicht extra dafür noch einmal angehört zu haben, um für das Nachfolgealbum “Music for Guitar and Piano 2” wieder beider Tonsetzer [8.570588] und wieder der beiden Interpreten Franz und Débora Halász besser gewappnet zu sein. Das war gar nicht nötig. Zwar hat sich in Sachen komplexerer Harmonien nichts weiter getan. Die Carullis bleiben, was sie 2009 auch schon waren, sympathische, immerzu angenehme, im Grunde aber nicht überwältigend gehaltvolle oder technisch sonderlich provozierende Komponisten. Das musste man Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts auch nicht

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Review By Glyn Pursglove,MusicWeb International,October 2009

Most of the music to be heard here is in a fairly direct line of descent from Haydn and Mozart, though it owes more to their ideas of symmetry and grace than to their profundity. The Three Waltzes (Op.32) are attractive pieces, not least in terms of the echoic dialogue between the two instruments. The Duos (Opus 11, 150 and 151) show Carulli slowly—the opus 11 duo was published in 1809, the others in the 1820s) coming to terms with the problems involved in blending the sounds (and dynamics) of these two instruments and often hitting on some very interesting solutions to the inherent problems; as he shifts the focus from one to the other, spotlighting each in turn, the results are never less than engaging. The Grand Duo, which appears to have

Carulli’s Rossini arrangements (including one prepared in collaboration with his son Gustavo) are great fun, capturing much of Rossini’s wit and zest. Opus 168, an arrangement of the Grande Marche by Ferdinand Ries is something of a curiosity. The attempt to give the guitar a martial air has a slight element of the absurd about it, heard alongside the far greater power and authority of the piano. The outcome can’t quite avoid a sense of pastiche, even of parody, though the piece is entertaining enough (Carulli is very rarely dull).

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