Release Date: 01 July 2004
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 747313259625
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Guitar Recital
Description
Pablo Sainz - Guitar RecitalTurina ?À Moreno Torroba ?À Rodrigo ?À Segovia ?À Falla ?ÀGerhard ?À TarregaThe composers included here represent the interaction ofmodernism and romantic nationalism current in Spain during the first half ofthe twentieth century. How Spanish composers dealt with integrating theinherited musical wealth of their country's popular tradition with the infusionof new concepts of musical thought in Europe at the time is in itselfrevealing, contributing, in part, to the power of the music. Joaquin Turina (1882-1949) contributed a small butsignificant body of pieces to the guitar repertoire. A friend of Manuel deFalla and student of Vincent d'Indy in Paris, he began his career with a PianoQuintet (1907) influenced by his Parisian studies. The style of that work soongave way to an exploration of the potentialities of Spanish folk-music,especially flamenco. This re-invigorated the harmony and rhythm of his musiceven as he maintained an affinity for cyclical and classical forms. The twoworks here included are Sevillana (Fantasia), Op. 29, (1923) and Homenaje aTarrega, Op. 69, (1932). These are the first and last pieces written for guitarby Turina, both directly inspired by flamenco music. Sevillana begins with astrong, dramatic gesture, somewhat rough and crude, as if a field workerapplied his dirty, calloused hands to the guitar. His fingers, tense from work,are incapable of independent movement, so he slides his gnarled fist around thefingerboard creating striking, expressive dissonances. The music soon evokesflamenco singing. The Homenaje a Tarrega consists of two movements, a garrotinand soleares. The work is nominally a hommage to the great Spanish guitaristFrancisco Tarrega (1852-1909), but is, perhaps, an unwitting acknowledgment ofTarrega's teacher, Julian Arcas.The Sonata-Fantasia by Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982)was found among Segovia's manuscripts in May, 2001, by the great Italianmusician, Angelo Gilardino, and has been published by Berben Edizioni Musicali.Torroba's many solo guitar works consist mainly of short, descriptive pieces,often published in collections. This piece, a full- fledged sonata, is amongTorroba's most ambitious and masterful works. We can only venture to guess whySegovia never performed it, as it is clearly to his taste. Be that as it may,we are fortunate to have available a major contribution to guitar repertoireand to twentieth-century Spanish guitar sonatas in general, a collection thatincludes sonatas by Turina, Jose, Manen, and Espla. Torroba's music is firmlyrooted in Spanish nationalism with elements of impressionism occasionallypresent, such as the use of modes, parallelism, extended chords and a generalappreciation of colour. Those who know Torroba's work will be struck by theopening sonorities of the introduction, sonorities which lead, by way of anarpeggiated altered chord, to a passage of fourths and fifths, horns andtrumpets signaling to the listener the sonata's first theme. Th
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
