Hugues: Opere per flauto e pianoforte Paolo Dalmoro & Maurizio Fornero

• Luigi Hugues (1836 - 1913): Sonata Fantastica op. 100:
• 1 Hugues: Sonata Fantastica op. 100 09:02
• Capriccio “Le Silfidi” op. 29 n. 2:
• 2 Hugues: Capriccio “Le Silfidi” op. 29 n. 2 07:24
• Serenata in re minore op. 3:
• 3 Hugues: Serenata in re minore op. 3 05:58
• Sonata Romantica op. 57:
• 4 Hugues: Sonata Romantica op. 57 08:14
• Sonata in do Maggiore op. 119:
• 5 Hugues: Sonata in do Maggiore op. 119 07:22
• Dans le Bois op. 67:
• 6 Hugues: Dans le Bois op. 67 07:13
• Sonata in Fa op. 95:
• 7 Hugues: Sonata in Fa op. 95 08:03
• Total Runtime 53:16

Info for Hugues: Opere per flauto e pianoforte

Among the most interesting personalities needing to be rediscovered in the musical world of late-nineteenth￾century Italy, a very distinctive one is undoubtedly the Piedmontese composer Pietro Eugenio Luigi Hugues (Casale Monferrato, 27 October 1836 – 5 March 1913). The available information about Hugues is no longer as scanty as it used to be. Thanks to the data obtained by archive researches, Hugues has been revealed as an unexpected figure: he was not only a renowned flutist, organist and composer, but also an important geographer, a university professor, and one of the main supporters of the study of geography in Italian schools.

His life shows surprising similarities with that of a contemporary of his, the flutist-composer-chemist Aleksandr Borodin (1833–1887). So this recording is quite precious. In the first place, because of its monographic character (it is the first disc entirely devoted to Luigi Hugues); secondly, for the exclusive performance of original works such as Sonata in C major op. 119, Studio da Concerto in D minor op. 3, Sonata Romantica op. 57, Capriccio “Le Silfidi” op. 29 no. 2, Sonata Fantastica op. 100, “Dans le Bois” op. 67 and, lastly, Sonata in Fa Op. 95: a masterly selection among the best original works of Hugues’s vast production of flute pieces (which is even more vast after the recent discoveries). These works are essential for understanding the deep soul, the truest nature of this composer.

Paolo Dalmoro, flute
Maurizio Fornero, piano

Paolo Dalmoro
obtained his diploma from the Conservatoire of Turin with the highest mark and first class honours degree. He specialized with Renate Greiss and Mathias Allin. In 1987 he won the “Lessona” prize as best graduate for wind instrument. He cooperated as solo flute with the Orchestra of the Regio Theatre of Turin by playing in symphonic concerts, making recordings and going on tour in Tunisia. He has played in many Italian and foreigner cities (Sofia, Wolfburg, Addis Abeba, Nairobi, Koln, Dulssendorf, Washington DC- NFA Convention, Huntington WV, Gallipolis OH) for important musical institutions and has recorded numerous Cds also of previously unpublished works for flute and piano which include the works of J.Demersseman, Giulio Briccialdi, Raffaele Galli, Marco Enrico Bossi. He taught flute at the Conservatoire of Turin and Benevento, Scuola di Alto Perfezionamento of Saluzzo and recently he has been Distinguished Professor at J.Marshall University (Huntington WV).

Currently he is specialized in ‘800 repertoire on historical instruments (Simple System flutes 5 – 14 keyed).

In 1996 he became the artistic director of the Opera Munifica of Turin where he also organises musical reviews dedicated to young musicians.

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