Laura Lootens - Diabolico (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Laura Lootens’s first collaboration with naïve, ‘Diabolico’ leads us into a world of strange tales and pacts with the devil and other ghostly apparitions which actually form the core of a magnificent journey in sound, covering an extremely varied range of styles.

A soothingly tranquil introduction, the opening movement of The Devil’s Trill Sonata of Giuseppe Tartini (1692–1770) here serves as a prelude to the transformations of the last of Paganini's Caprices, the supreme incarnation in music of the devil, composed by George Rochberg (1918–2005).

These Caprice Variations make up an intriguing musical kaleidoscope of fifty-one variations which sometimes remind one of Bach, Brahms, or indeed Paganini's own wild flashes of lightning, yet they are also founded upon more modern, even experimental ideas - a captivating play between past and present which Laura Lootens represents here with eleven of her favourite movements.

Afterwards comes a work by Niccolò Paganini (1782–1840) himself, the Grand Sonata for violin and guitar, played here by guitar alone. In this piece, the fruit of an utterly devilish joke, Paganini made sure that the more difficult part was given to the guitar, with the violin in fact playing only a simple accompaniment.

TRACKLIST

1. Laura Lootens - Violin Sonata in G Minor, B.g5 "Il trillo del diavolo": I. Larghetto affettuoso (Arr. for Solo Guitar by Roberto Zadra)
2. Laura Lootens - Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 1. Allegro energico
3. Laura Lootens - Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 2. Presto
4. Laura Lootens - Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 27. Aria
5. Laura Lootens - Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 7 after Beethoven, Op. 74 [Scherzo]. Presto
6. Laura Lootens - Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 5. Poco agitato ma con molto rubato
7. Laura Lootens - Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 12 after Brahms, Op. 35 [Book 1, No. 12]. Andante con moto
8. Laura Lootens - Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 44 after Mahler, Symphony No. 5 [Scherzo]. Scherzo
9. Laura Lootens - Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 43. Andantino
10. Laura Lootens - Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 20. Quasi cadenza
11. Laura Lootens - Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 22. Molto espressivo e cantando
12. Laura Lootens - Caprice Variations for Unaccompanied Violin (Transcr. for Solo Guitar by Eliot Fisk): Variation 51. Paganini's theme [Caprice XXIV]. Quasi presto
13. Laura Lootens - Grand Sonata per chitarra e violino in A Major, Op. 39, MS 3 (Arr. for Solo Guitar by Laura Lootens) in A Major, Op. 39, MS 3: I. Allegro risoluto
14. Laura Lootens - Grand Sonata per chitarra e violino in A Major, Op. 39, MS 3 (Arr. for Solo Guitar by Laura Lootens) in A Major, Op. 39, MS 3: II. Romanza
15. Laura Lootens - Grand Sonata per chitarra e violino in A Major, Op. 39, MS 3 (Arr. for Solo Guitar by Laura Lootens) in A Major, Op. 39, MS 3: III. Andantino variato
16. Laura Lootens - Capriccio diabolico, Op. 85a (Omaggio a Paganini)
17. Laura Lootens - Due canzoni lidie: I. Espressivo
18. Laura Lootens - Due canzoni lidie: II. Agitato
19. Laura Lootens - Invocación y danza. Homenaje a Manuel de Falla



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