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Plucked strings: guitar and mandolin Julien Martineau and Philippe Mouratoglou form an exceptional duo, in which the mandolin and guitar sometimes sound like a single instrument, so fluid and natural are their dialogue and…

Plucked strings: guitar and mandolin

Julien Martineau and Philippe Mouratoglou form an exceptional duo, in which the mandolin and guitar sometimes sound like a single instrument, so fluid and natural are their dialogue and their sonorities.

They celebrate the richness of the repertoire for mandolin and guitar through pieces by Italian composers, great South American masters, and Ludwig van Beethoven. They invite the audience on an enchanting musical journey.

If it is often the same handful of "hits" that is put forward to present the classical guitar (the Concierto de Aranjuez, Asturias – which, let us recall, is a piece for piano…), the immense richness of its repertoire – which spans more than five centuries of music in the most varied aesthetics – is no longer in need of demonstration.

The fact is less well known: some of the greatest masterpieces of the catalogue were written… for guitar duo! In this format, freed from the constraint of having to share melody and accompaniment together, the instrument shows the full measure of the infinite gradations of nuance and colour of which it is capable, as Rémi Jousselme and Philippe Mouratoglou illustrate in the pulsating Tango Suite by Astor Piazzolla and in the sumptuous Suite Retratos by the Brazilian Radamès Gnattali.

CAST

Philippe Mouratoglou, guitar

Julien Martineau, mandolin

Rémi Jousselme, guitar

PROGRAMME

Part 1: Guitar & mandolin

Niccolò PAGANINI – Sonata per Rovene MS 14

Romanza MS 3?

Serenata MS 16

Raffaele CALACE – Mazurka VI op. 141

Raffaele CALACE – Saltarello op. 79

Ludwig van BEETHOVEN – Adagio ma non troppo

Egberto GISMONTI? – Agua e Vinho

Carlo MUNIER – Capriccio spagnuolo

Part 2 – Guitar duo

Radamès Gnattali: Suite Retratos

Pixinguinha (Chôro)

Ernesto Nazareth (Valse)

Anacleto de Medeiros (Schottisch)

Chiquinha Gonzaga (Corta Jaca)

Astor Piazzolla – Tango Suite: Deciso, Andante, Allegro