Recorded for the film Ensaio, directed by Tania Lamarca, soundtrack by Alberto Heller.

Luiz Mantovani, guitar
André Ehrlich, clarinet

Recorded at The Magic Place, Florianópolis.

J.S.Bach/Alberto Heller - Prelúdio (filme ENSAIO)

John Dowland (1563-1626) - Now, O now, I needs must part
Christy Steele, soprano and Luiz Mantovani, guitar
Instrument: Sérgio Abreu 1997
Recorded live February 1999 at the New England Conservatory, Boston, U.S.

Text:

Now, O now, I needs must part,
Parting though I absent mourn.
Absence can no joy impart,
Joy once fled cannot return.
While I live I needs must love;
Love lives not when Hope is gone.
Now at last Despair doth prove
Love divided loveth none.
Sad despair doth drive me hence;
This despair unkindness sends.
If that parting be offence,
It is she that then offends.

Dear, when I am from thee gone,
Gone are all my joys at once.
I loved thee and thee alone,
In whose love I joyed once.
And although your sight I leave,
Sight wherein my joys do lie,
Till that death do sense bereave
Never shall affection die.
Sad despair doth drive me hence;
This despair unkindness sends.
If that parting be offence,
It is she that then offends.

Dear, if I do not return
Love and I shall die together;
For my absence never mourn,
Whom you might have joyed ever.
Part we must, though now I die,
Die I do to part with you.
Him Despair doth cause to lie,
Who both lived and dieth true.
Sad despair doth drive me hence;
This despair unkindness sends.
If that parting be offence,
It is she that then offends.

John Dowland (1563-1626) - Now, O now, I needs must part

John Dowland (1563-1626) - Come again
Christy Steele, soprano and Luiz Mantovani, guitar
Instrument: Sérgio Abreu 1997
Recorded live February 1999 at the New England Conservatory, Boston, U.S.

Text:

Come again! sweet love doth now invite
Thy graces that refrain
To do me due delight,
To see, to hear, to touch, to kiss, to die,
With thee again in sweetest sympathy.

Come again! that I may cease to mourn
Through thy unkind disdain;
For now left and forlorn
I sit, I sigh, I weep, I faint, I die
In deadly pain and endless misery.

All the day the sun that lends me shine
By frowns do cause me pine
And feeds me with delay;
Her smiles, my springs that makes my joy to grow,
Her frowns the Winters of my woe.

All the night my sleeps are full of dreams,
My eyes are full of streams.
My heart takes no delight
To see the fruits and joys that some do find
And mark the storms are me assign'd.

Out alas, my faith is ever true,
Yet will she never rue
Nor yield me any grace;
Her eyes of fire, her heart of flint is made,
Whom tears nor truth may once invade.

Gentle Love, draw forth thy wounding dart,
Thou canst not pierce her heart;
For I, that do approve
By sighs and tears more hot than are thy shafts
Did tempt while she for triumph laughs.

John Dowland (1563-1626) - Come again

John Dowland (1563-1626) - Come, Heavy Sleep
Christy Steele, soprano and Luiz Mantovani, guitar
Instrument: Sérgio Abreu 1997
Recorded live February 1999 at the New England Conservatory, Boston, U.S.

Text:

Come, heavy Sleep, the image of true Death,
And close up these my weary weeping eyes,
Whose spring of tears doth stop my vital breath,
And tears my heart with Sorrow's sigh-swoll'n cries.
Come and possess my tired through-worn soul,
That living dies till thou on me be stole.

Come, shape of rest, and shadow of my end,
Allied to Death, child to his joyless black-fac'd Night,
Come thou and charm these rebels in my breast,
Whose waking fancies doth my mind affright.
O come, sweet Sleep, or I die forever;
Come ere my last sleep comes, or come thou never.

John Dowland (1563-1626) - Come, Heavy Sleep

Lior Navok (b.1971)
Guitar Concerto

Commissioned by the Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva with funds from the Israel Ministry of culture and the Adele and John Gray Memorial Endowment Fund.

​Premiere Performance:

16 October, 2010 
Beer Sheva, Israel
Luiz Mantovani, guitar
Israel Sinfonietta Beer Sheva
Doron Solomon, conductor

Unknown Album (12/14/2010 8:10:39 PM)

Lior Navok - Guitar Concerto

Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953)
Sonata in E Major for Flute and Guitar
  I. Allegretto (moderato)
  II. Tema mit Variationen
  III. Scherzo: Presto (ma non troppo!) - Trio: etwas maßigeres Zeitmaß (Tempo di Valse)
  IV. Rondo (über einem Beethoven'schen Tema frei nachgebildeten Hauptsatz): Allegretto grazioso

Catherine Hare, flute
Luiz Mantovani, guitar

Recorded at the Royal College of Music Studios on 04/03/2016. Will Gray, recording engineer

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Ferdinand Rebay - Sonata for in E Major for Flute and Guitar

Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953)
Sonata in C Major for Oboe and Guitar
  I. Allegro moderato
  II. Langsam und ausdrucksvoll
  III. Scherzo: Presto - Trio
  IV. Rondo - Finale: Allegretto grazioso

Alex Fryer, oboe
Luiz Mantovani, guitar

Recorded at the Royal College of Music Studios on 24/03/2016. Nick Harding, recording engineer

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Ferdinand Rebay - Sonata in C Major for Oboe and Guitar

Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953)
Sonata in A minor for Clarinet and Guitar
 I. Sehr ruhig und sehr leise beginnend. Allegro ma non troppo
 II. Variationen über das „Volksliedchen“ aus Schumanns Jugendalbum
 III. Scherzo: Presto ma non troppo. Trio: Ruhiger Walzer
 IV. Finale: Allegretto moderato

Melissa Youngs, clarinet
Luiz Mantovani, guitar

Recorded at the Royal College of Music Studios on 06/06/2017. Stephen Harrington, recording engineer

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Ferdinand Rebay - Sonata in A minor for Clarinet and Guitar

Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953) - Sonate für Flöte und Gitarre No.2 in D-Dur
I. Allegro molto moderato; Lebhaft, aber keinesfalls schnell
Duo de Paula/Mantovani (Michel de Paula, flute and Luiz Mantovani, guitar)
Instruments: Muramatsu and David Rubio 1982
Recorded live July 2011 at Centro de Convenções Victor Brecheret, Atibaia, Brazil

Ferdinand Rebay (1880-1953) - Sonate für Flöte und Gitarre No.2 in D-Dur (1st movement)

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - String Quartet No.12 (arr. Tadeu do Amaral)
III. Scherzo - Allegretto (ligeiro)
Brazilian Guitar Quartet (Everton Gloeden, Tadeu do Amaral, Luiz Mantovani and Gustavo Costa, 8 and 6-string guitars)  
From the CD "Brazilian Guitar Quartet plays Villa-Lobos" (Delos, 2011), winner of the 2011 Latin Grammy for "best classical album"

Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) - String Quartet No.12 (arr. Tadeu do Amaral)

Jean Paul Paladin (c.1505-1566) - Alcun non può saper / Fantasia sopra al detto madrigal
Luiz Mantovani, guitar
Instrument: William J. Gilbert 2001
Recorded live April 2001 at Jordan Hall, Boston, U.S.

Giovanni Paolo Paladino (ca.1505-1566) - Tabulature de Luth (1549)

Live recording from my Artist Diploma first recital at New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall, 23 April 2001.

Guitar by William Gilbert (2001).

Sarabande from Bach's BWV 997

Brazilian guitarist Luiz Mantovani has built a thriving international career that successfully combines performance, teaching, and research. Highlights from recent seasons include an all-Villa-Lobos program at the Festival Villa-Lobos in Rio and a performance film of Rebay’s Sonata in E No. 2 at the Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria, funded by the Hermann Hauser Guitar Foundation and released by GuitarCoop. Regular collaborations with contemporary composers have resulted in numerous commissions and premieres over the past two decades, including Israeli Lior Navok’s Guitar Concerto, premiered in 2010 with the Israel Sinfonietta.

A winner of several competitions in his native country, Luiz has also earned significant international prizes, such as the Schadt String Competition (1999), BMOP Concerto Competition (2001) and the Pro Musicis International Award (2002). The latter led to solo appearances in Carnegie Hall in New York and Salle Cortot in Paris, among others. On one of these occasions, The New York Times praised his rendition of William Walton’s Five Bagatelles as “powerful, beautifully shaped and just about flawless.”

A keen chamber musician, he was a member of the Brazilian Guitar Quartet for 11 years, with which he performed extensively across four continents. With the BGQ, Luiz recorded three albums for Delos International. The second of them, Brazilian Guitar Quartet plays Villa-Lobos, was awarded the Latin Grammy in 2011 for “Best Classical Album”. He has also collaborated with German guitarist Nelly von Alven in the NOVA Guitar Duo, resulting in two albums for the Italian label Stradivarius, Sortilegios (2019) and Journey (2022).

Luiz Mantovani holds a PhD from the Royal College of Music in London, where he investigated the chamber sonatas of Viennese composer Ferdinand Rebay. Regarded as a leading expert on Rebay, he was honoured with the Best Paper Award in 2022 from Musicologica Austriaca, the journal of the Austrian Musicological Society. His publications include an entry in Grove Music Online and several articles in peer-reviewed journals. Luiz was the first guitarist to receive the prestigious Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. He also holds a Master of Music degree from NEC and a Bachelor of Music degree from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. His guitar mentors were David Leisner, Nicolas Barros, and Antonio Guedes.

Since 2003, Luiz Mantovani has been a faculty member at the State University of Santa Catarina – UDESC, in Florianopolis, southern Brazil. As a founding member of UDESC’s guitar program, he has successfully prepared students for competitions and for furthering their studies abroad, besides actively engaging his class in the local community. In addition to university teaching, Luiz is frequently invited to conduct masterclasses and deliver lectures around the world.

Luiz Mantovani

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