Pablo Lentini Riva is a teacher and performer of the classical guitar. He studied at the Giuseppe Verdi conservatory in Milan, and has given concerts throughout Europe. His first love is the Baroque, but he is also a subtle interpreter of Romantic and Impressionist music. He now lives in Paris, were he teach at the Conservatoire municipal Frédéric-Chopin and the Ecole nationale de musique Marcel-Dupré in Meudon. His 2005 CD for solo guitar includes the four Tombeaux de Monsieur Blancrocher by Johann Jakob Froberger, Louis Couperin, Dufaut and Denis Gaultier.
"The logic behind the inclusion in the CD of the four tombeaux of Denis Gaultier, Froberger, Couperin, and Dufaut is revealed when we see to whom it is dedicated: the amateur lutist Charles Fleury de Blancrocher who died in 1652 from a fall down stairs. He was a friend and patron of the four musicians.
It is the modern guitar that brings us once again this music - once played on the lute of Gaultier and Dufaut and the keyboard of Froberger and Couperin - embellishing it with its own style and language.
According to French logic Lentini Riva also performs the second Suite of Bach for cello, adding a third instrument to change the music again. The feelings and emotions raised by the death of a friend are relived with expression and depth. The musician artfully uses all the instrument's possibilities to give tone and dynamism to the performance that fully adheres to the expressive logic of the era."
Giorgio Ferraris, Il Fronimo, luglio 2005
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