Kontaxakis, Michalis: Guitar Recital

Michalis Kontaxakis

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Cat No: 8570191

Release Date: 30 June 2006

Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 747313019175

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: KONTAXAKIS, Michalis

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Michalis Kontaxakis: Guitar Recital The Mexican composer Manuel Ponce was born in 1882 in Fresnillo. In 1893 he served as a chorister in Aguascalientes and the following year became an organist. In 1901 he moved to Mexico City, studying piano and composition, followed by a period from 1904 in Bologna and then in Berlin. He returned to Mexico in 1907 to teach the piano at the Conservatorio Nacional, establishing himself as a composer, notably with the first performance of his Piano Concerto in 1912, and doing much towards the establishment of a recognisably Mexican musical identity. He served as conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra and in 1925 returned to Europe for further study with Dukas in Paris. In 1933 he returned to Mexico, appointed director of the Conservatorio Nacional. The following year he established a chair of folk-music in the School of Music of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma. In 1923 Ponce had met the great guitarist Andres Segovia, and their friendship bore fruit in a number of compositions for the guitar, including a concerto, Concierto del sur, chamber music, and a number of works for solo guitar, some of them pastiches, following the example of the violinist Fritz Kreisler. Sonata III was written in 1927. It follows the traditional structure of a sonata, with a D minor first movement in sonata-allegro form, its second subject marked pi?? tranquillo ed espressivo. A livelier central development is followed by a recapitulation. The second movement, Chanson, has a gently lilting theme that is heard again after a short contrasting middle section. The last movement is a rondo, its principal theme framing episodes of contrasting mood and key. Born in Havana in 1965, the guitarist and composer Joaquin Clerch studied the guitar and composition in his native city before continuing his studies at the Salzburg Mozarteum, where he was a guitar pupil of Eliot Fisk and worked in early music with Anthony Spiri and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, graduating there with distinction in 1991. He has won an international reputation as a guitarist and since 1999 has held a professorship of guitar at the Robert Schumann University in D??sseldorf. Clerch's Preludios de Primavera (Preludes of Spring), homage to Francisco Tarrega, consist of seven short pieces for guitar, a tribute to a form used by Tarrega. The inspiration for the work came to the composer in April 2005 and the set of pieces was completed in July, each dedicated to a friend or a member of the composer's family. The first prelude, Primavera, slow and expressive at first, is preceded by a line from the Cuban song-writer and lyricist Silvio Rodriguez from his Mariposas (Butterflies), 'Todo lo que tocas se hace primavera' (All that you touch turns to spring), a suggestion of the Latin-American element that lies behind the pieces. Las olas de Moncofa (The Waves of Moncofa), headed by a quotation from Ra??l Roa, was written in April 2005 at Moncofa on the Gulf of Valencia. Homen
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