Guitar Laureate For 2004 Gfa Competition

Goran Krivokapic

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Cat No: 8557809

Release Date: 01 October 2005

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

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Barcode: 747313280926

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: Guitar Laureate for 2004 GFA Competition

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Goran Krivokapić - Guitar RecitalWerthm??ller J.S. Bach D. Scarlatti BogdanovićFranz Werthm??ller's music sits comfortably betweenJoseph Haydn, 37 years older, and Fernando Sor, nineyears older. Though closer in time to Sor, he seems tohave absorbed more of the older composer's style, atleast in the brisk Allegro that opens his Sonata in Amajor, Op. 17, in a high-spirited fashion, and in theexhilarating momentum of the Presto that concludes it.Haydn, who liked to finish his symphonies with an uptempomovement, might have approved. The warm andeloquent melody of the Lento, however, is more ofWerthm??ller's time, at the beginning of the Romanticmovement that was to usher in Weber, Schumann andChopin. The sonata was transcribed, presumably from apiano version, by the nineteenth-century Austrianguitarist and composer Franz Pfeifer.'Good, great and universal music remains the sameno matter what instrument sounds the notes'. Theopinion of Ferruccio Busoni, composer, piano virtuosoand arranger of formidable skill, is almost universallyechoed by modern musicians and musicologists, but theold belief that it is somehow wrong to play violin musicon the guitar still persists in some quarters. Bach himselfwas a habitual transcriber and arranger, and that surelyought to be enough to convince the doubtful. Theadvantages of a guitar transcription include a greatclarity in polyphony while still retaining an essentiallystring sound. Bach himself arranged movements fromhis Violin Sonatas, so guitar arrangers and transcribersare not working in the dark. Nevertheless, decisionshave to be made - when, or if, to arpeggiate chords, asthe violin necessarily must when more than two adjacentstrings are involved; whether to expand a violin's fournotechord with the guitar's two additional strings,whether to acknowledge that it was originally a violinpiece or whether to treat it as a new piece for guitar, andso on. It is known that Bach owned a lute, thoughwhether he could play it with any degree of proficiencyis uncertain: in performance he remained a keyboardplayerpar excellence. Busoni, among whose studentswas Sibelius, was an arch-romantic, as his arrangementfor piano of Bach's D minor Chaconne shows. Ageneration later, Segovia's Chaconne arrangement forguitar was much less romantic, though nowadays itwould not be considered to be in accordance withmodern thinking and beliefs. An arrangement invariablyechoes the perceptions of its own time, not those of theperiod in which the work was originally composed. Thedemanding fugue of the Sonata in C, BWV1005, isknown familiarly among English-speaking guitarists as'London Bridge', the melody of which can berecognised in the opening bars, although obviously Bachhad no knowledge of traditional English song.Domenico Scarlatti's father Alessandro was asignificant figure in music, the composer of some sixhundred chamber-cantatas. So attractive are the almostequal number of harpsichord sonatas written by his sonDomenico, ho
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