“Humberto Bruni is one of the most outstanding personalities of the Latin American musical process, which is one of the most important around the world.”
José Antonio Abreu, Conductor
Classical Guitar
& Inventor
“Humberto Bruni, a truly fine guitarist, truly accomplished, and a worthy representative of the Venezuelan guitar tradition, which is one of the most important on Earth.”
Antonio Lauro, Composer
“An encore, "Natalia" by Antonio Lauro served in a short space of time to display Bruni's virtuosity at its very best.”
Worcester Telegram, Massachusetts USA
Music for Symphony Orchestra
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Humberto Bruni, in addition to being a classical guitar performer, is also a composer. He has written numerous works for various musical ensembles. Some of his compositions are written for full symphony orchestra, such as the "Overture in c minor Opus 121," which can be heard in the link provided below in this page.
Bruni has also made instrumentations of compositions by other authors, including the renowned "Canon in D Major" for strings by the German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel.
Among other pieces, Humberto Bruni has programmed and conducted every instrument of the famous "Adagio for Strings" Opus 11 by Samuel Barber, using Apple Logic with the Vienna Symphonic Library.
"Overture" in c minor Opus 121 by Humberto Bruni
The Overture Opus 121 in c minor, was composed from top to bottom in only 10 hours of continuous hard and intense work. Starting at 1 am of the twentieth day of December 2012 and was finished by 11 am. The recording of that Overture that is presented in this Site, is exactly the same that was finished that Twentieth of December 2012 at 11 am.
Brief Analysis
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The Overture structure is divided clearly in three sections: A-B-A'. The introduction is performed by a brass quartet which performs a
only one fraction of the main theme of the Overture. Then, the full String Section enters and solemnly presents the Overture Theme (Section A) with an impressive and a
majestically intensity, which instantaneously make the audience capture the overall ambience of sadness that will be encountered throughout the whole Overture. Suddenly just the violin section take their turn performing a sequence of arpeggios of "open" chords (triads without the 3rd) accompanied with the percussion, then the whole wind section introduces the second Theme of the Overture. Progressively the music is taken the audience to a quite and peacefully oasis (Section B), where the Harp takes the main role. But the implacable and inexorable sadness that was presented from the beginning,
"Variations on Pachelbel's Canon" by Humberto Bruni
The Canon by German Baroque composer Johann Pachelbel was written for a String Ensemble. The Theme of the Canon in D Major became well known.
This piece is really a "Theme with Variations", where the Theme of the Canon by Johann Pachelbel.
The Theme presented at the beginning and then come several variations that are performed up to fifteen different
instruments.
"Adagio for Strings" by Samuel Barber
This "Adagio for Strings" (1936) by Barber was entirely programmed by Humberto Bruni using Apple Logic, in 2010. All musical decisions about each and every particular note (i.e. articulations, legato (slurs), dynamics, tempo, phrasing, etc.) were totally decided by Bruni. Samuel Osborne Barber II (March 9, 1910 – January 23, 1981) was an American composer of orchestral, opera, choral, and piano music. He is one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century. This Adagio belongs to his String Quartet Opus 11.