ESPOSITO: Music for Violin and Piano

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Composer & Artist:
Composer: Michele Esposito
Artists: Carmelo Andriani (violin), Vincenzo Maltempo (piano)

About this Album:
It might be unusual to find classical music that manages to imbibe the spirit of Irish folk music; it must be even more unusual for that ‘Irish’ music to actually be by an Italian. But Michele Esposito was an unusual composer. Born in southern Italy, financial circumstances led him to settle abroad, and, after a brief spell in Paris, he arrived in Dublin in 1882, making Ireland his homeland for the next 46 years. His time there coincided with the Irish cultural revival that was taking place during the latter half of the 19th century, leading Esposito to find a place at the heart of several prominent cultural institutions.

One of these institutions was the Feis Ceoil, the Irish competitive music festival, at which Esposito won first prize for his Irish Rhapsody No.2 Op.54 in 1902. Folk music also inspired his Irish symphonies, for which he is well known, as well as the simple yet highly effective airs and melodies featured on this release. The three violin sonatas all stem from very different periods of the composer’s life; the first contains elements of Schumannesque piano writing in the third movement, as well as clear echoes of Saint-Saëns, whereas the second – more technically advanced – is more akin to the music of Brahms. Esposito’s last violin sonata, composed in 1913, is tonally much more experimental, and structured in a highly unconventional manner, with the Scherzo movement a slow and solemn minuet, concluding in an unusual sonata form.

Tracklist:
00:00:00 Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 32: I. Moderato
00:06:37 Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op .32: II. Lento
00:14:24 Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Major, Op. 32: III. Allegro vivace
00:19:42 Irish Rhapsody No. 1 for Violin and Piano, Op. 51
00:34:36 Five Irish Melodies for Violin and Piano, Op. 56: No. 3 “Silent, O Moyle”
00:38:46 Five Irish Melodies for Violin and Piano, Op. 56: No. 5 “When through life”
00:41:43 Two Irish Airs for Violin and Piano, Op. 57: No. 2 “The silver tip” (Irish reel)
00:43:20 Five Irish Melodies for Violin and Piano, Op. 56: No. 2 “The Coulin”
00:46:38 Violin Sonata No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 46: I. Allegro moderato
00:54:09 Violin Sonata No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 46: II. Andantino
00:58:55 Violin Sonata No. 2 in E Minor, Op. 46: III. Allegro con fuoco
01:04:50 Violin Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 67: I. Affettuosamente
01:13:55 Violin Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 67: II. Allegretto moderato
01:17:17 Violin Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 67: III. Andante cantabile
01:21:55 Violin Sonata No. 3 in A Major, Op. 67: IV. Allegretto grazioso
01:27:08 Irish Rhapsody No. 2 for Violin and Piano, Op. 54

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