Ielo

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Guitarist Antonino Ielo authors his debut album with a collection of solo guitar works from the early 1900s, written by composers from the Mediterranean area, all of whom were non-guitarists. This last detail is non-negligible: when the guitar, in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, established its morphology with six single strings, its repertoire lived for a long time on the exclusive contribution of composers who were, at the same time, pre-eminent virtuosos of this instrument. One should not be surprised, then, that Hector Berlioz, in his Grand Traité d’instrumentation et d’orchestration modernes, stated that it was impossible to write properly for the guitar without being able to play it. The French composer was just sanctioning a matter of fact, establishing an implicit taboo which would be overcome only in the first years of the twentieth century.

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Antonino Ielo and Giordano Brandini, both natives of Arezzo, met in 2007 during their studies at the Cosenza Conservatory (Calabria, Italy) in the guitar class of Giorgio Albiani and became the Aneis Guitar Duo in 2014, after various experiences in different ensembles and as soloists. The sounds, colours and suggestive atmospheres of the music in Latin America spawned this musical union (the term “Aneis” in the Portuguese means “Rings”), and this first CD may be considered as a project of thanks. Source of inspiration was a verse by Federico Garcia Lorca from Poema de la siguiriya gitana “Arena del Sur caliente que pide camelias blancas” [“Hot southern sands yearning for white camellias”].