Giuseppe Pettine was one of the leading mandolinists in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. A celebrated teacher as well as performer, Pettine also composed numerous pieces for unaccompanied mandolin that were popular at the time and remain part of the classical mandolin “canon” today. A short piece in so-called “duo style”, “Murmuring Brook” was composed in the 1890s. I perform it here on mandola in C (tuned CGDA, like the viola). The instrument is by Weber.
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