CONCERTO A PIZZICO (I) by Victor Kioulaphides - Het CONSORT скачать в хорошем качестве

CONCERTO A PIZZICO (I) by Victor Kioulaphides - Het CONSORT

The 'CONCERTO per orchestra a pizzico' work was composed by Victor Kioulaphides in 2004 and is one of the larger works (aprox. 18 minutes) for plucked instruments by Kioulaphides. It was written for and dedicated to the Dutch Mandolin Chamber Orchestra HET CONSORT conducted by Alex Timmerman and scored for 1st and 2nd mandolins, mandolas, guitars, a mandoloncello and a chitarrone moderno. The premiere of this delightful composition took place in the Concert hall of the Stedelijke Muziekschool in Groningen (Netherlands) on Saturday 19th of March (2005) in the presence of the composer. The Concerto consists of the following three movements: Sinfonia - Notturno - Rondo finale: "Telemanniana". Because the total length of the composition the three movements are shown in two separated into two video films; one with the 1st movement and one film with the 2nd and 3rd movement on it. Victor Kioulaphides about the Concerto per orchestra a pizzico: - The form of the piece was determined during several conversations with Alex: We mused over the idea of a concerto in the usual sense, one presumptively featuring, accompanied by the rest of the ensemble; we also considered some sort of a concerto grosso with more than one soloist. The final outcome, i.e. taking the multiplicity of soloists to the maximum, was a work that features each and every section as occasional soloists, all the way from the first mandolins to the warm, soulful chitarrone. The Concerto per orchestra a pizzico is, as mentioned above, a work in three movements, fast-slow-fast: a Sinfonia first movement, a Notturno second one, and a Rondo finale, subtitled Telemanniana, fusing the jolly, francophile galantries of the Master from Magdeburg with the modern material of the earlier two movements -. Victor Kioulaphides was born in Athens, Greece, and moved to New York in 1979 where he studied double bass and composition at The Juilliard School and The Manhattan School of Music. Today he is a Member of ASCAP, American Music Center, American Federation of Musicians and his compositions are i.e. published by the Liben Music Publishers and the New York Classical Guitar Society. Besides his busy activities as a classical double bass player is a faculty member at the Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance. The Mandolin Chamber Orchestra HET CONSORT plays solely on Roman instruments of the Mandolin family as there are the 1st and 2nd mandolin, the mandola and the mandoloncello. All the instruments are made by Luigi Embergher (1856-1943) or his direct successors like Domenico & Giannino Cerrone and Pascuale Pecoraro. Besides the mandoloncello, modern Spanish guitars and a chitarrone moderno (a huge guitar kind that is only played pizzicato) are used for the lower voices in the music that is performed by this orchestra. To achieve the best sound the plectrum played instruments are played with the long two pointed Roman plectrum and strung with Bronze round wound CONSORT strings made on the orchestra's request by the German Lenzner/Fisoma string makers company. More info about the Mandolin Chamber Orchestra Het CONSORT can be found at their website: http://www.mandolineorkest.nl/index.html To learn more about the Roman instruments made by Luigi Embergher one can visit the Embergher website: http://www.embergher.com/