Handel / Mancini / Susani - Intrecci New Compositions & Arrangements For [CD]

The album Intrecci New compositions and arrangements for Guitar, produced with the support of the MiC Ministry of Cultureand SIAE as part of the 'Per Chi Crea' program, presents a singular listening itinerary that sees Giacomo Susani's two souls asan interpreter and composer dialogue in an original way. The program unfolds in four pairs of songs: four original compositions, accompanied by four repertoire arrangements created by Susani himself. "Mine was not an operation of transcriptionas faithful as possible to the originals - says Giacomo Susani - but I decided to move in an arrangement dimension functionalto the narrative arc of the CD and therefore aimed at enhancing the intrinsically identifying qualities of the guitar." The firstpair of songs that opens the album sees two works brought together and characterized by a fundamental contrapuntal architecture: a very short Fuga by G.F. Handel, taken from Voluntary X for organ, and the original piece Dialogo (homage toLauro), born from a commission received by Pixaudio for an upcoming documentary on Antonio Lauro. With a change of interior landscape, we move on to Caprice 4 for solo violin by Pierre Rode, a composer and famous French violinist who livedbetween the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, associated with the piece that gives the album it's title: Intrecci (homage toPaganini) by Susani, a work commissioned by the Paganini Guitar Festival 2024 and which pays homage to Paganini by developing a dialogue between the two gestural worlds, that of the violin and that of the guitar, both loved by the Genoesecomposer. The third pair of pieces leads into the more abstract dimension of melancholy and meditation, with the very famousJune by P.I. Tchaikovsky for piano in the version for guitar created by Giacomo Susani and the original piece by Susani Gemsdreaming which the author considers his most abstract work among those on the album. The listening ends with an arrangement of Moon River by Henry Mancini and an original piece in three movements inspired by three paintings by the Britishauthor Frederic Leighton.An album that develops in an eclectic meeting of sound worlds and artistic illuminations, where the classical repertoire issingularly intertwined with contemporary expression.