Artist: Marco Battaglia

Title: Music from Italian Patriot Mazzinis Letters

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Format: CD

Release Date: 2023

Label: Tactus Records

UPC: 8007194108019

Genre: Classical Artists

Album Tracks

1. No. 16 in G Major: Larghetto (After in Cor Più Non Mi Sento from la Molinara By Paisiello) [02:35]
2. No. 17 in D Major: Andantino (After Le Streghe from Il Noce Di Benevento By Sussmayr) [02:11]
3. No. 20 in C Major: Andante (After la CI Darem la Mano from Don Giovanni By Mozart) [02:57]
4. No. 31 in a Major: Minuetto: Andante [01:33]
5. No. 37 in a Major: Adagietto Con Espressione (After Rossini) [01:52]
6. No. 38 in a Major: Vivace [00:59]
7. Grand Sonata for Solo Guitar, Op. 2: Andante Grazioso [04:51]
8. Variazioni Sul Tema Favorito Della Cavatina, Op. 128, "Io Ti Vidi E T'adorai" [09:44]
9. Rossiniana No. 5, Op. 123 [14:39]
10. 10 Études: Étude No. 1 in C Major: Moderato [04:11]
11. Opern-Revue Op. 8: No. 29. La Traviata (After Verdi) [13:35]
12. Capriccio No. 2. Allegro [01:25]
13. Capriccio No. 7. Prestissimo [02:56]
14. Capriccio No. 36: Moderato [01:48]

Giuseppe Mazzini, the greatest revolutionary of the 19th century in Europe, was very passionate about music, he attended theaters and organized an annual concert to support the Italian School he founded in London. He published a very interesting "Philosophy of music" in Paris in 1836 and, as we know from the letters to his mother written in periods of exile from Italy, he loved to play the guitar. His three guitars, appearing for the first time together in a single recording, are preserved in his birthplace in Genoa, today Museo del Risorgimento - Istituto Mazziniano, at the Istituto Storico Nazionale Domus Mazziniana in Pisa, where he died, and in the private collection preserved in Milan by Marco Battaglia. The album includes a varied and fascinating repertoire of original music by Niccolò Paganini, Luigi Moretti, Giulio Regondi and Luigi Legnani, a song specifically mentioned in a letter from Mazzini, a theme by Giovanni Pacini varied by Mauro Giuliani, also author of a potpourri that includes parts of works by Gioachino Rossini, and a fantasy on Verdi's Traviata, elaborated by Caspar Joseph Mertz.