Souvenirs for mandolin and guitar Alison Stephens mandolin Craig Ogden guitar CHAN 10563 Foto Olympia, Athens Souvenirs for Mandolin and Guitar Carlos Vieco Ortiz (1900 –1979) 1 Patasd’hilo*† 1:48 Pasillo Arranged by Fernando León R. Vivo Pedro Morales Pino (1863 –1926) 2 El Fusagasugueño*† 2:17 Bambuco Arranged by Fernando León R. Allegro Luis E. Nieto S. (1898 –1968) 3 Valle del Cauca† 2:15 Pasillo Arranged by Fernando León R. Allegro Dimitris Fampas 3 Manos Hadjidakis (1925–1994) Masaji Nawata (dates unknown) 4 Mother and Sister*† 3:17 12 Sakura* 4:49 from the Era of Melissanthi (A Cherry Blossom) 5 Kemal† 2:43 Alison Stephens (b. 1970) Evangelos Boudounis (dates unknown) premiere recording 13 Mount Fuji (2006)* 3:15 6 Elena’s Tsifteteli (1994)† 3:39 Played on an octave mandolin To Elena Papandreou Freely Allegro con brio (fl. 1895–97) José Antonio Zambrano (b. 1965) E. Zerega 14 *† premiere recording Souvenir de Bovio 2:48 Suite Venezolana (2000)*† 10:05 Arranged by Alison Stephens Andante espressivo – Meno mosso e rubato 7 I Fiesta Criolla (Joropo) 1:16 8 II Tonada. Andante appassionato 3:22 (d. 1938) 9 III El Morenito. Cancion de cuna 2:49 Salvator Leonardi 10 IV Las Mariposas del Bosque. Amoroso 1:16 15 Souvenir de Sicile*† 3:40 11 V Fiesta Criolla (Joropo) 1:20 Tempo di mazurka 4 5 (1921 –1996) Juan Carlos Muñoz (b. 1965) Dimitris Fampas 21 Sousta (c. 1960)*† 4:49 16 El Duende (1997)* 3:12 Allegro Eduardo Angulo (b. 1954) Victor Kioulaphides (b. 1961) 17 De Aires Antiguos (1994)*† 7:49 premiere recording in this version Dem Duo Capriccioso gewidmet 22 * Adagio – Allegro – Adagio – Grandioso – Allegro – Diferencias (2002) 4:51 Gracioso – Allegro Based on the traditional Sephardic song ‘Morenika’ from Thessaloniki, Greece Played on an octave mandolin Clemente Diaz (dates unknown) Lento – Più mosso 18 Polka (1986)† 2:02 (dates unknown) 19 Valse triste (1986)† 3:56 Miroslav Tadić 23 Walk Dance† 3:22 Based on a traditional Macedonian folk dance (b. 1925) Mikis Theodorakis To Scott Tennant 20 Where Has My Boy Flown to?*† 4:04 Allegro vivo 6 7 Armin Kaufmann (1902 –1980) premiere recording 24 Burletta, Op. 62 (1953 –54)*† 2:44 Allegro assai – Poco meno mosso – Allegro assai Courtesy of Elisabeth Kaufmann-Troppina premiere recording 25 Mitoka Dragomirna, Op. 63 (1953 –54)*† 2:15 Vivo TT 79:49 Alison Stephens mandolin* Craig Ogden guitar† Alison Stephens will donate her royalties from all sales of this disc to Macmillan Cancer Support in grateful appreciation for all that they do to help people affected by cancer. Registered charity in England and Wales (261017), Scotland (SC039907) and the Isle of Man (604) Armin Kaufmann 8 century Greek composers, whose output originally written for mandolin and guitar. Souvenirs ranged from popular song and film scores Angulo is from Mexico and draws on his for Mandolin and Guitar to ‘serious’ classical music. The two songs native music as inspiration for much of his Kemal and Mother and Sister are so evocative work. Angulo himself describes his piece as: This CD is a celebration of our ten-year musical across the world. The guitar, in its various that they make for poignant listening even a kind of lullaby which is united with a partnership and of two hardy and adaptable forms, is commonly used in traditional and without the lyrics. Alongside Hadjidakis, vital huapango – always together, always instruments which have the unusual ability classical music in Latin America, North Mikis Theodorakis is one of Greece’s most a continuation of one another. Just like to bridge musical styles and cultures in a way America, throughout Europe, and beyond. The respected and prolific composers. Although my parents. that few other instruments can. mandolin has ‘cousins’ in many countries: the most famous for writing the score to the film In the early and middle parts of the The inspiration for this CD has its origins in bandurria in Spain, the bouzouki in Greece, Zorba the Greek, he has written a vast array twentieth century there was a little surge our first disc together, Music from the Novels the bagˇlama and saz in Turkey, the domra of music, including songs such as Where Has in writing for mandolin in Vienna. Two of the of Louis de Bernières (CHAN 9780), which and balalaika in Russia and the charango, My Boy Flown to? Dimitris Fampas was the more noted composers from this time are contains a combination of solos and duos cuatro, bandola and bandolim in Latin and father of the modern guitar in Greece, much Hans Gál and Armin Kaufmann. Kaufmann drawn from musical references in Louis de South America. The mandolin itself, originally as Tarrega was in Spain, and originally wrote was born in what is now Romania. Burletta Bernières’s ‘Latin American Trilogy’ and, of from Italy, is surprisingly popular, both as Sousta for solo guitar. In Elena’s Tsifteteli, and Mitoka Dragomirna are quirky and course, Captain Corelli’s Mandolin. a classical and folk instrument, in Greece, the Greek guitarist and composer Evangelos characterful, and exude the spirit and drive That first CD marked the beginning of a Israel, Japan, the Balkan states, the USA and Boudounis is inspired by a traditional Greek that are characteristic of much music from fruitful and highly enjoyable partnership. many parts of Eastern and Central Europe. belly-dance, the tsifteteli, and he revels in this part of the world. From a similar part of For the next ten years we continued to play Although mandolin and guitar are the myriad world of colours and contrasts the world comes a solo guitar piece by the together in concert and on tour across the UK commonly paired, much of the music in available on the guitar. The Colombian wonderfully eclectic, Serbian-born guitarist and around the world. We were often asked our repertoire originally had a different duets Patasd’hilo, Valle del Cauca and El and composer Miroslav Tadić. Walk Dance to give themed concerts, either combining scoring. But if we find a piece we like, then Fusagasugueño, along with the two guitar is based on a traditional Macedonian dance music with poetry read by Louis de Bernières, we set about adapting it. We enjoy the solos Polka and Valse triste, were found with the unusual time signature of 11/8. Tadić or on our own. Over the years we developed challenge of arranging a variety of pieces during research for a charity concert in captures all the spirit of the original dance a repertoire of unusual music, from Colombia, to suit our instruments, our playing and our association with the Colombian Embassy. while simultaneously creating a mini-study in Mexico, Greece and many other countries, programmes. Many of the pieces on this disc The three singularly spirited and rhythmic spectacularly varied guitar techniques. to go alongside our more classical concert have been in our repertoire for many years. duets were originally written for bandola (a The Suite Venezolana was written for two repertoire. These pieces form the core of our The poetry and music recitals with Louis Colombian instrument extremely similar to mandolins. The three inner movements of new disc. de Bernières often have a Greek or Latin the mandolin) and guitar. this suite are very atmospheric and lyrical Both the mandolin and the guitar are American theme. Manos Hadjidakis was one Eduardo Angulo’s De Aires Antiguos is and are framed by renditions of the fiery intrinsically linked to indigenous music of the most famous and prolific twentieth- one of the few pieces on this disc that was ‘Fiesta Criolla’ which possesses a pronounced 10 11 Venezuelan flavour. Though by different traditional Sephardic tune called ‘Morenika’ previous discs on Chandos: Music from the instrumentalist to receive a Fellowship composers from different countries – Leonardi and draws on both traditional Greek music Novels of Louis de Bernières with the guitarist from the Royal Northern College of Music in was Sicilian and Zerega Spanish – Souvenir and classical mandolin techniques. Craig Ogden in 1999 and a CD of works by Manchester. His many recordings, including de Sicile and Souvenir de Bovio have their The remaining work for solo mandolin on Hummel, including his Mandolin Concerto more than half a dozen for Chandos, have roots in the ‘Golden Age’ of the mandolin. Both the disc, El Duende, is both Spanish in flavour in G major, with the London Mozart Players received wide acclaim. His debut solo album composers were important figures in the and provenance. This fun little piece in under Howard Shelley in 2001. As well as the led the magazine BBC Music to dub him ‘a mandolin movement of the late nineteenth flamenco style demonstrates a very different Louis de Bernières CD, Alison Stephens has worthy successor to Julian Bream’, and it century: Leonardi a prominent and talented method of writing for the mandolin, treating worked on several projects in connection was also nominated for a Grammy award. He player and Zerega an influential conductor of the instrument more like a ‘mini-guitar’. The with Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, including a regularly appears as a soloist and chamber mandolin and guitar bands. title (a literal translation of it would be ‘the sell-out stage show, the soundtrack for the musician at the major London venues, and The classical mandolin first became goblin’ or ‘the sprite’) is an idiomatic phrase Hollywood film, a BBC Radio 4 dramatisation, has performed as soloist in concertos with popular in Japan as far back as the late used to describe someone who is full of a Bookmark Documentary on BBC 2, and all the major orchestras in the UK and also nineteenth century.