Aniello Desiderio: A Guitar Virtuoso's Concert at Teatro Sannazaro

Guitarist Aniello Desiderio is the protagonist, Thursday, March 14th at 20:30 at the Teatro Sannazaro, of the next concert of the musical season of the Alessandro Scarlatti Association chaired by Oreste De Divitiis. Music by Gaspar Sanz, Federico Moreno Torroba, Enrique Granados, Joaquim Malats, Emilio Pujol creates a musical program that combines some cornerstones of the universal guitar repertoire that also includes the "Chaconne" from Bach's "Partita No. 2 in D minor". "A piece - emphasizes Tommaso Rossi, artistic director of the Scarlatti Association - that, although originally a piece for solo violin, has now also become a "classic" of the guitar and Aniello Desiderio's version makes us discover unexplored musical horizons". The concert program at the Teatro Sannazaro in Naples is completed by a piece expressly written for Aniello Desiderio: the "Suite Verismo" by Stephen Goss (composer, guitarist, and academic, born in Wales in 1964), which combines, with great enjoyability and expressive capacity, themes from the most famous works of Italian verismo. From the Intermezzo of "Manon Lescaut" by Puccini to that of "Cavalleria Rusticana" by Mascagni, then returning to Puccini with an aria from "La Bohème" and continuing with "La traviata" and "Rigoletto" by Verdi, up to "The Barber of Seville" by Rossini. "Immortal melodies - adds Tommaso Rossi - that acquire in the interpretation of Aniello Desiderio a charm and a sonority really special, combined with the virtuosity and brilliance of the writing". The Neapolitan musician is considered by the world critics as one of the absolute reference points for the guitar. At the age of eight, Aniello Desiderio performed for the first time in public, and then quickly established himself as a concert performer when he won numerous first prizes in national and international competitions. Among these stand out the 1st Prize and the Special Prize for the best interpretation of South American music at the Havana International Guitar Competition, Cuba (1988), the 1st Prize and Special Prize for the best interpretation of the music of Tarrega at the Francisco Tarrega International Competition in Benicasim, Spain (1992), and the 1st Prize at the "Guerrero" International Competition, Madrid, Spain (1994).