This recording was commissioned by StarLight Office, Tokyo. It is additionally distributed at the Japan Planetarium Society (JPS) conference -Osaka, Japan, 2005- and at the International Planetarium Society (IPS) conference – Melbourne, Australia, 2006-.

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1. Canario* (Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, 1640)
2. Sonata in re minore (Domenico Cimarosa)
3. Sonata in la maggiore (Domenico Cimarosa)
4. Fantasía sobre motivos de la Traviata (Francisco Tárrega)
5. Bergamasca* (Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, 1640)
Sonata in sol minore** (Antonio Vivaldi, 1730)
6. Andante molto
7. Larghetto
8. Allegro
9. Intermezzo alla Follia
10. Romance (Niccolò Paganini, 1804)
11. Andantino variato (Niccolò Paganini, 1804)
Sonata IX** (Giovanni Zamboni, 1718)
12. Preludio
13. Allemanda
14. Giga
15. Sarabanda
16. Gavotta
17. Toccata seconda detta Arpeggiata* (Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger, 1640)


*arranged by Alberto Vingiano
** arranged by Gabriele Natilla

©2005 Gabriele Natilla
©2005 StarLight Office

Notes.

Johannes Hieronymus Kapsberger (c.1575 - Rome, c.1661), ‘il tedesco della tiorba’, son of a German officer in Italy, grew up in Venice and later lived in Rome. He was a virtuoso performer on plucked string instruments. The three pieces here belong to the ‘Libro Quarto d’Intavolatura di Chitarone’ (Rome, 1640).

Domenico Cimarosa (Aversa by Neaples, 1749 – Venice, 1801) was throughout his lifetime one of most famous composers in Europe, but he was later overshadowed by Mozart for operas and by Scarlatti for sonatas for keyboard. Two of these sonatas have here been arranged for guitar.

The Trio in G minor for violin, lute and basso continuo RV85, by Antonio Vivaldi (Venice, 1678 – Vienna, 1741) is here called Sonata for his arrangement for solo guitar. In the original version of this typical Italian baroque concerto, the lute and the violin double each other most throughout most of the piece.

Unlike the other pieces, these works by Niccolò Paganini (Genoa, 1782 – Nice, France, 1840) were originally written for guitar, instrument which, in addition to the violin, the composer so nimbly played. Here are the second and third movement of the “Grand Sonata a Chittarra Sola Con Accompagnamento di Violino” (M.S.3).

The Sonata IX is the most well-known piece by an otherwise quite unknown composer, Giovanni Zamboni ‘Romano’ (c.1674, Rome -17??, Pisa). Player of lute, theorbo, harpsichord and mandolin, Zamboni wrote the piece for archlute in the typical form of baroque suite of dances.

The Spanish romantic composer and guitarist Francisco de Asís Tárrega Eixea (Vila-real, 1852 – Barcelona, 1909) wrote this Fantasía employing, quite faithfully, and adapting to the guitar texture, some themes from Giuseppe Verdi’s famous opera ‘La Traviata’.

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Recorded on April 10-12, 2005 at the Galaxy Planetarium recording studio, in Tokyo, Japan.