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Carlo Munier was one of Italy's greatest mandolinists ever. Born in Naples on July 15, 1859, he was already at a very early age recognized as mandolin virtuoso of the highest rank. Besides his activities as a performer he was also highly regarded as a teacher and composer. Many compositions of his hand - he wrote over 300 works for mandolin in all kinds of strengths - are written for his students and with the idea of elevating the mandolin and its unique possibilities as a concert instrument ...

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Diferencias for solo mandolin by Victor Kioulaphides performed by Alex Timmerman on a new Roman Concert Mandolin by the Dutch luthier Hendrik van den Broek after Concert built in 2009 after a Model No. 6 for concertists by Luigi Embergher made in the 1920-ties.

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Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, was born in 1757 in Ruppersthal (Austria). He was the son of Martin Pleyel, a school teacher, and showed musical talent from a very early age. After first receiving music lessons from Johann Baptist Wanhal he later studied composition under the guidance of Joseph Haydn, with whome he became friends for life. In 1777 Ignaz Pleyel was appointed Court conductor at the Court of Count Ladislaus Erdödy in Pressburg, a patron who also financed Pleyels journey to Italy to study ...

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Toccata by Franz Burkhart performed by the Dutch Mandolin Chamber Orchestra Het CONSORT conducted by Alex Timmerman. A video made on September the 18th, 2009, during a concert in the Saint Nicolas Church in Bancigny, France. Not much is known about the life of the Austrian composer Franz Burkhart (1902-1978). He studied musicology at the University of Vienna as well as the violin, piano, composition and direction under the guidance of Ferdinand Grossmannu. Burkhart composed music for all ...

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Broadway '79 by Victor Kioulaphides, as explained by the composer: is an instrumental jazz ballad, scored for two soloists in alternation, playing one "chorus" each, joining on the refrain, twice over the orchestra of first and second mandolins and mandolas, plus "walking bass" mandoloncello. In this performance by Het CONSORT conducted by Alex Timmerman the original instrumentation is, with permission of the composer, of course, enlarged with a guitar section and a bass. The latter ...

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The Danseries anciennes by John Craton is a composition originally written for mandolin orchestra. It was composed at the behest of the Dutch mandolin Chamber Orchestra Het CONSORT and dedicated to Marianne Timmerman-Hollander and her husband Alex Timmerman, founder and conductor of the orchestra. The Danseries anciennes is a concert suite based on Medieval Dances of France. In total there are five dances; Estampie, Pavane et Gaillard, Basse dance et Tourdion, Carole et Bransle gay and Piva ...

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The Danseries anciennes by John Craton is a composition originally written for mandolin orchestra. It was composed at the behest of the Dutch mandolin Chamber Orchestra Het CONSORT and dedicated to Marianne Timmerman-Hollander and her husband Alex Timmerman, founder and conductor of the orchestra. The Danseries anciennes is a concert suite based on Medieval Dances of France. In total there are five dances; Estampie, Pavane et Gaillard, Basse dance et Tourdion, Carole et Bransle gay and Piva ...

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The Prelude BWV 1007 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) is originally composed for Violoncello. In fact, it is the very first piece of Bachs 1st Suite in G major (BWV 1007) for solo Violoncello. In this video it is played on the mandoloncello, an instrument in the Mandolin family which function best can be compared with that of the violoncello. Indeed the mandoloncello (or mandocello, as it is named in the US) has the same tuning (C2-G2-D3-A3) as the violoncello and the music is likewise ...

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Raffaele Calace (1863-1934) was born in Naples as the son of Antonio Calace, a successful instrument maker. Having been initially trained to become a musician Raffaele discovered the possibilities of the mandolin and became an unequalled virtuoso on this instrument. After he had graduated with the highest honours at the Regio Conservatorio di Musica in Naples, his main goal became to give the mandolin it's rightful place in music life. To achieve this, he toured through Europe and Japan ...

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Part I - The "Perpetua Melomania II for Mandolin Orchestra" by the Dutch composer Jeff Hijlkema is a work written in the Minimal Music style close to that of the American pioneers of this genre, Philip Glass and Steve Reich. In 1998, inspired by the "minimalism" of the above mentioned composeres and with the music of the Englishman Michael Nyman and Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt in mind, Jeff Hijlkema started working on this composition. He first composed separate sections of only a few ...

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