Una Madre Romanza per Mezzosoprano, Flauto e Pianoforte. - Giulio Briccialdi
edited by Angelica Celeghin
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The romance A Mother is, among the numerous works by Giulio Briccialdi (Terni 1818-Florence 1881), the only example of a composition for this seductive type of ensemble - voice, flute and piano - one which splendidly evokes nineteenth-century drawing room settings. Two other excellent concert-masters concertisti of the same period, Cesare Ciardi and Vincenzo De Michelis, also composed works of this kind, respectively the vibrant scherzo The Nightingale and the elegant, melancholy romance Sweet Remembrances. His friend Ciardi made his adaptation of Alabieff’s aria, which he transcribed for soprano, flute and piano, so famous that Ricordi produced two successive editions of it, in Italian and English.
Briccialdi’s widow noted in her diary that in 1838 the soprano Virginia de’ Blasis, a famous singer of that period, proposed to Briccialdi, who was then just twenty, that the two of them should perform together in a concert which was to be held at the Piccolini Theatre of Florence. The accounts of the time also tell us of numerous subsequent artistic experiences with vocal and instrumental ensembles during European tours with the soprano Bennati, the young pianist Martucci and the already famous cellist Piatti. We can therefore suppose that on account both of his substantial busy concert activity and of his activity as first flute in the most important opera houses, the prolific Briccialdi also decided to turn his attention to vocal composition: we in fact find in the catalogue five lyrics for voice and piano, including a Stornello in E flat major entitled The Garden of Perugia, published unnumbered by Venturini, of which there is also a Solo for flute and piano accompaniment Op. 135 with the same theme and the same title, and his second Romance in Venetian dialect for mezzo-soprano, The Love of the Philharmonics from the poem by Zanetti, which was unpublished. A much weightier vocal work, which in truth afforded Briccialdi small gratification given its lack of success with the public, was his Leonora De’ Medici, which he wrote on his return to Italy and which was performed in 1855 at the Teatro Carcano of Milan.
In his romance A Mother the reassuring key of C major chosen by Briccialdi clashes harshly with the expressive setting of the work, and the alternating play between the major and minor keys dramatically portrays the contrasting states of mind evoked by the memories: the mother, who has received the terrible news of the loss of her son, snatched from her by fate, weeps desperately but, even in her despair, at the same time vividly recalls her joy as she used to watch the child’s endearing gestures.
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9790215811294
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