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Full Album available // Ida Presti & Alexandre Lagoya: Classical Music for two Guitars 🎧 Qobuz (Hi-Res) Tidal (Hi-Res) 🎧 Deezer Spotify 🎧 Amazon (soon) Apple (soon) Idagio (off) Youtube Music 🔊 ***Download the album (Hi-Res MASTER - WAV uncompressed)*** Claude Debussy (1882-1918) 00:00 Suite bergamasque. Clair de lune (transcription: Alexandre Lagoya) (2024 Remastered, Studio 1962) Ferdinando Carulli (1770-1841) 05:22 Serenade in G Major, Op. 96, No. 3. I. Largo, Allegro moderato (2024 Remastered, Studio 1966) 10:11Serenade in G Major, Op. 96, No. 3. II. Andante sostenuto con variazioni (2024 Remastered, Studio 1966) 14:14 Serenade in G Major, Op. 96, No. 3. III. Finale: Presto, Larghetto, Presto (2024 Remastered, Studio 1966) Guitars : Ida Presti & Alexandre Lagoya Recorded in 1962 & 1966 New Mastering in 2024 by AB for 🔊 Join us with your phone on our WhatsApp fanpage (our latest album preview): 🔊 Find our entire catalog on Qobuz: 🔊 Discover our playlists on Spotify: ❤ Support us on Patreon The classical guitar is capable of producing a wide spectrum of tonal colors and individual effects, which modern players and composers have expanded upon. Presti-Lagoya fully utilized these possibilities, even elevating some of the most well-known techniques to a new level of development—for example, the muted notes (resembling pizzicato on the violin) and sharp staccato. Beethoven is said to have described the guitar as “a miniature orchestra,“ and he very well might have said this if he had heard this duo. When Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya met in 1950, they had already firmly established their solo careers. They married in 1952 and formed the Presti/Lagoya Duo. Although other guitar duos had existed since the early 19th century, the one they formed was the first of its kind. After its creation, both abandoned their solo careers to devote themselves to developing their duo internationally. Previously, guitar duos were either occasional collaborations between two soloists or established duos where the members also pursued separate careers of lesser significance. The Presti-Lagoya duo represents an exceptional musical partnership, and its abrupt end due to Ida Presti's untimely death was perhaps the most tragic loss in the world of classical guitar—a loss of a duo of great historical importance and, in the case of Ida Presti, one of the greatest guitarists of all time. Like all marriages, it likely involved reconciling different temperaments, which enriched their musical activity. Their timing was impeccable in every rubato or tempo change, as was their unity in every nuance. There was a deep bond between them, probably enhanced by the fact that Ida Presti possessed a mysterious sixth sense, as demonstrated during the intermission of a concert at Wigmore Hall in London. Sitting back to back, each talking to different people with no visible means of communication between them, they suddenly stopped speaking and, as if responding to an invisible conductor, began playing a very difficult passage from one of the pieces in their program. How could this have happened? Today, there are other guitar duos of remarkable quality, whose technical prowess rivals that of Presti and Lagoya, but none can compare with them in terms of warmth of expression, passion, and the love they had for each other, which, combined with their shared love of music, made them the duo of the century entirely in the service of art. Other Album available // Debussy: Danses pour Harpe, La Mer by Igor Markevitch 🎧 Qobuz (Hi-Res) Tidal (Hi-Res) 🎧 Apple Music (Lossless) Deezer (Hi-Fi) 🎧 Amazon Music (Hi-Fi) Spotify (mp3) 🎧 Youtube Music (mp4) Idagio (Hi-Fi) (off)
