Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana

  1. Martin Jonas
    Martin Jonas
    Pietro Mascagni: Intermezzo, from "Cavalleria Rusticana" (1890)

    This short but very atmospheric piece of incidental music from Mascagni's one-act opera Cavalleria Rusticana is a classical standard and has been widely used as film music, e.g. in "Raging Bull" and "The Godfather III".

    This is a reduction to two mandolins and (tenor) guitar, based on an anonymous mandolin quartet arrangement from our group repertoire.

    1898 Giuseppe Vinaccia mandolin (x2)
    Vintage Viaten tenor guitar


    https://youtu.be/VzAjmGbO9xA

    Martin
  2. Ginny Aitchison
    Ginny Aitchison
    I enjoyed this piece Martin. It sounds beautiful on your bowlback with nice even tremolo and dynamics in the presentation.I don't think I have ever played that high before. Perhaps that is why you are using the mandolin you have there. Is it best for doing that?
  3. Christian DP
    Christian DP
    A nice piece of mandolin music, me too, I enjoyed it, Martin.
  4. Martin Jonas
    Martin Jonas
    Thanks, Ginny and Christian. It's a classic piece, and suits the mandolin well. The most difficult part is keeping the tempo slow -- I kept taking it too fast.

    Martin
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