Felice Santelli & Luca Marazzi - Rare Masterpieces for Flute And Guitar (2017)

Duo only recently arrived at its full and true appearance, the flute and guitar duet has always been in the early days almost at the margins of the most distinguished chamber groups and often relegated to the interchangeability of a violin and a harp or even a violin and a piano. The interchangeability that the flute would have known for almost the whole of the ‘700 and a part of the nineteenth-century was derived from a fortunate stratagem adopted by many publishers and composers to increase sales of compositions originally intended solely for the violin or which in general part of a large-scale repertoire that was primarily used and consumed by amateur educated people. Perhaps one of the first attempts of matching these two instruments in an original work dates back to Jean-Baptiste Bédard (ca.1755 – ca.1815?) with La Gavotte de Vestris et les Folies d’Espagne Op.39.