A Tribute to Ida Presti

Milani, Cinzia

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‘One of the greatest guitarists of all time,’ remarked John Duarte in his entry on Ida Presti for Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Best-known in posterity as one half of the celebrated Presti-Lagoya duo, she is celebrated on this album as a composer and virtuoso in her own right, half a century after her unexpected death in the middle of a US concert tour, at just 43 years of age. In her booklet-note, Cinzia Milani remarks that she has always considered Presti a role-model, not only for her prodigious talent as a guitarist, but as a female musician in a culture and industry still often dominated by male authority. She presents here six studies by Presti herself, a Danse rhythmique and an Etude du matin, and Presti’s tribute to her own hero, Segovia. Just as Presti dedicated the dance to her husband Lagoya, so Milani follows it with two works which he in turn dedicated to her. Then there are various works by composers little known outside guitar circles such as Miguel Ablóniz and indeed Duarte.

Works:

• Ablóniz: Pequeña romanza
• Dessagnes: Tendresse
• Duarte, J W: Idylle Pour Ida
• Fampas: Concert Study No. 1
• Fampas: Concert Study No. 8
• Lagoya: Caprice
• Lagoya: Reverie
• Milani: Quattro Mi
• Morançon: Analecta
• Poulenc: Sarabande for solo guitar, Op. 179
• Presti: Danse Rythmique
• Presti: Étude du matin
• Presti: Etudes (6)
• Presti: Segovia

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Brilliant Classics

2019-11-13

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