A luminous, easily recognizable instrument, and a symbol of Italy's
learned and popular musical tradition, the mandolin has been the subject
of several major compositions throughout the history of music. First of
all, the famous concertos by Vivaldi: two of them appear here on this
intensely romantic album (‘Come une volta’) that Julien Martineau - one
of today’s greatest figureheads of the instrument - has recorded for
Naïve. We also finally get to hear, thanks to the world premiere
recording by Julien Martineau, the legendary, virtuosic and poetic
second concerto (of which the manuscript was lost) by Raffaele Calace
(1863-1934), who was often described as "the Paganini of the mandolin".
The instrument is in fact so close, in many ways, to the violin. The
Caudioso concerto completes an album which, steeped in authenticity and
musical excellence, honors and lends prestige not only to the art of
mandolin, but also to Italian and musical culture as a whole.
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