about "Concerto per Franco Petracchi" by Virgilio Mortari

[Annie.I]

hello, Pro. David Ruby. I'm Annie, a Doublebass student from Taiwan. I'm practicing this Concerto "Concerto per Franco Petracchi" written by Virgilio Mortari recently. I saw the intro said that you've learned from Pro. Franco Petracchi before so I wandered if I can ask you some questions that confused me in this piece.
I check Pro. Petracchi's website, I believe the piece was named by him. There are 4 movements in this piece and every movement has a title.
Q1.Does that mean Mortari dedicate each movement to tose composers that written on the title?
e.x. 2nd movement is "RONDO (BOCCHERINI)". I don't understand whether Mortari just imitated BOCCHERINI or he didecated to BOCCHERINI.
Q2.1st movement dosen't have a title. I couldn't figure out what it means in this piece.

It's my great pleasure if you can reply me these questions. It would be very helpful to me!
Thank you for solving my problem!

Annie Chenilove-ronan@yahoo.com.tw

[JoelQuarrington]

Hello Annie! I noticed that my old friend Dave Ruby was not replying to your question so I wrote him to ask why he wasn't. He is swamped with different projects right now and asked me to reply if I liked. Since the Mortari is one of my favorite pieces I will!
I have played this work several times with orchestra and I believe it is excellent to program for more "pops" oriented concerts, maybe a bit like the Proto "Carmen Fantasy".
The concerto was named for and dedicated to Franco Petracchi. Later compositions from Mortari for Petracchi include the "Duettini Concertanti" for violin and bass, the "Eligiaco Rhapsodica" as well as an orchestration for the Bottesini "Grand Duo".
The four movements of the concerto are each in the style of an Italian composer and actually use music by the composers. The first is the Italian baroque composer and violinist, Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762). Geminiani worked most of his career in England and Ireland which might account for the somewhat Scottish sound to the slower "air" in the movement.
This is followed by a Luigi Boccherini "rondo".
The third unaccompanied movement "Invenzione" is Francesco Antonio Bonporti (1672-1749) which is quite nice, and finally there is the well known "La Campanella" by Paganini.
The orchestration is quite light and very unproblematic to put together.
I hope you have fun learning and performancing this very enjoyable concerto!
Thanks Dave for letting me answer this!

[Annie.I]

Thanks a lot!
It'd be really helpful~

[Jeff Guevin]

That was the sound of my jaw hitting the floor.

Welcome, Mr. Quarrington! What a treat to have you join us here. With Mssrs. Ruby, Neher, Seaton, Bromberg, and Panascia here as well, it's getting somewhat intimidating.

-Jeff

[stiv1]

Is this piece available on cd by chance? I would love to check it out if it has been recorded. Also, it is fantastic to see Mr.
Quarrington contributing here!