Wow! I had no idea this piece existed. Being that Regondi is my favorite guitar composer, I've tried to track down as many scores as possible, whether they are for guitar, concertina, song, etc. I was surprised to hear in the middle a passage that has been preserved in the Digital Guitar Archive in a small document called "Giulio Regondi Manuscript Excerpts." That particular manuscript is dated 1854, leading me to believe that he had written it as an album leaf and then eventually worked it into this Salon piece.
I first played this piece about 30 years ago - the head of strings at my school arranged the piano part for string orchestra, and we played it in a variety of very picturesque churches etc when the orchestra made a trip to Spain in the summer between school and university. I then lost the original concertina part... which turned out to be very fortunate! I had thought that this is all there is to the piece (i.e. that the capriccio-mazurka was the solo part in the middle... even though it didn't really feel like it fitted the name!), but then fairly recently I was exchanging emails with someone about Regondi/concertina music and they sent me the whole thing! So there is indeed a flashy (Regondi style) capriccio mazurka that this is just an introduction (warm up!) to. Feel free to PM me for more info.
Just lovely
That was 😍 amazing.
A big thank you to both of you.
Wow! I had no idea this piece existed. Being that Regondi is my favorite guitar composer, I've tried to track down as many scores as possible, whether they are for guitar, concertina, song, etc. I was surprised to hear in the middle a passage that has been preserved in the Digital Guitar Archive in a small document called "Giulio Regondi Manuscript Excerpts." That particular manuscript is dated 1854, leading me to believe that he had written it as an album leaf and then eventually worked it into this Salon piece.
I first played this piece about 30 years ago - the head of strings at my school arranged the piano part for string orchestra, and we played it in a variety of very picturesque churches etc when the orchestra made a trip to Spain in the summer between school and university. I then lost the original concertina part... which turned out to be very fortunate! I had thought that this is all there is to the piece (i.e. that the capriccio-mazurka was the solo part in the middle... even though it didn't really feel like it fitted the name!), but then fairly recently I was exchanging emails with someone about Regondi/concertina music and they sent me the whole thing! So there is indeed a flashy (Regondi style) capriccio mazurka that this is just an introduction (warm up!) to. Feel free to PM me for more info.
How lovely is that! Thank you 😊
The sounds of the guitar combined with the concertina are absolutely amazing. You are great musicians. Both of you. Great work 👏👏👏
Thanks
Wow! This is a real treat ❤ great work!
very beautiful!!!
Thanks! I had to take a break from practising the bandoneon to stop my fingers getting confused, but I'm back on it now!
@@profrat don’t hurry 🤗