The combinations of instruments on this disc of Classical-era chamber music -- violin, clarinet, and two guitars, or flute, clarinet, violin, two guitars, and cello -- look pretty strange, but there's a principle in operation that explains them. Filippo Gragnani (1767-1812), an Italian who went to make his fortune in Russia, was one of a group of composers, little known today, who wrote music in which one or more guitars would stand in for keyboards. In the years around 1800, as it is today, a guitar offered a way of ...
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The combinations of instruments on this disc of Classical-era chamber music -- violin, clarinet, and two guitars, or flute, clarinet, violin, two guitars, and cello -- look pretty strange, but there's a principle in operation that explains them. Filippo Gragnani (1767-1812), an Italian who went to make his fortune in Russia, was one of a group of composers, little known today, who wrote music in which one or more guitars would stand in for keyboards. In the years around 1800, as it is today, a guitar offered a way of reproducing a full musical texture that was inexpensive compared with a piano. A disc like this really shows the value of performance on historical instruments, for the combination of performance practice and engineering here makes you hear what Gragnani was up to. Hear especially the opening Quartetto, Op. 8, for clarinet, violin, and two guitars. The then-fresh sounds of the clarinet are set off by the accompaniment of the guitar pair, which is deployed so that it sounds a great deal...
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