Rosetta: Music For Guitar

A conservative, yet inspired and masterful, composer, Giuseppe Rosetta (1901-1985) reflects in his music the influence of those Italian composers who formed the Generazione dell'Ottanta: Respighi, Casella, Malipiero and Pizzetti. His music never received any attention in Italy, because he deliberately kept it unpublished, except for a few short organ/harmonium pieces which were published during his lifetime by Edizioni Carrara, Bergamo, a company specialising in church music. A modest person, Rosetta agreed to have his guitar music published in a series with international distribution only because, with the income from royalties, he could help poor families.

Canti della Pianura (Songs of the Plain, a personal evocation of the countryside of the huge Po Valley, where he was born and lived) dates from 1970. The four movements correspond to times of the day: the dawn (Mattutino), the afternoon (Meridiana), the evening (Vespertina) and the night (Serenata). The "Preludi per Gilardino" were written for his pupil, guitarist Angelo Gilardino, who actually inspired him to write for the guitar. o Played with warmth and sincere feeling by master guitarist Gian Luca

Barbero.