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VIVALDI - THROUGH 4 SEASONS
Carlo Aonzo plays Vivaldi with the Ensemble Il
Falcone. Complimenti! Fantastico! You can’t
play the 4 Seasons on a mandolin, except when
Carlo Aonzo plays! Amaaaaazing!!! Il Falcone is
top-class,too! More info at: www.carloaonzo.com
PAGANINI - SONATAS
Carlo Aonzo and René Izquierdo. The guitar
sounds wonderful and the mandolin is brilliant.
Perfect for the virtuosismo of Paganini. The two
muscians are on the absolute highest level.
More info at: www.carloaonzo.com
GIMOSAMLINGEN - THE GIMO COLLECTION
Duo Acquavella with Bach Collegium San Diego
plays this music so beautiful. It is the best inter-
pretation of the sonatas and triosonatas ever!
More info at: www.chrisacquavella.com
GIMOSAMLINGEN
The Gimo Collection
THE VIRTUOSO MANDOLIN
Keith Harris on a CD. I clearly remember New Year's
Day, 1983. That was when I first heard Keith Harris, live,
at a concert in Linköping, Sweden. It was an amazing
experience for me to hear, for the first time in my life, a
genuine mandolin virtuoso playing in person. Then,
starting the next day, Keith Harris was special guest
teacher at our first Mandolin Seminar, with my mandolin
and guitar ensemble Musica Festiva, which later became
the Camerata Mandolino Classico, in the idyllic Swedish
town of Vadstena, on Lake Vättern.
Thanks to modern technology, we can still marvel at his
superb musicianship on this wonderful CD, a
remastering of an LP he recorded in London in 1980.
Since our first encounter 34 years ago, Keith and I have
seen the world through our involvement with the
mandolin, and we still enjoy working with each other as
much as on the first day. The Mandolin World is a
wonderful microcosm.
More info at: www.mandolin-lessons.com
All reviews written by:
Lars Forslund, Artistic Director of The Mandolin Academy
in Sweden and Venice, Italy.
OLOF NÄSLUND
On this record plays
Camerata Mandolino
Classico music
composed by Olof
Näslund. Conductor:
Keith Harris Soloists:
Gianni Fassetta,
accordion, Kenneth
Frejd, guitar & Stefanie
Rauch, mandolin