Occhipinti, Sergio Manolo
Inside And Outside: Italian Guitar Music 1904-1961
From Respighis youthful Variazioni (1904) to Malipieros brisk Preludio (1961), this programme maps six decades of Italian guitar writing between tradition and experiment. Castelnuovo-Tedescos Sonata (Omaggio a Boccherini) gleams with neoclassical wit/ Petrassis Suoni notturni chisels sound into abstract sculpture/ Ghedinis Studio da concerto turns virtuosity inward, lyrical and restrained. Alongside these, rarer works show how the guitar became both voice of memory and laboratory of timbre. The tracklist moves between antique dances reframed, nocturnes reimagined, and modernism filtered through intimacy. The album reads as narrative/ tracing how Italian modernism adapted the guitars modest means to its boldest ideas. It is a journey inside tradition and outside boundaries, where the guitar sings its multifaceted Italian modernity.