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Although Carlos Benell has a Spanish name and Spanish parents, he was Guajira (Evocacion Cubana) and Tango are by the Spanish guitarist- SIDEl born in Camden Town ( 1949), and considers himself a true Londoner. composer-teacher-musicologist Emilio Pujol.one of the more celebrated However, his father. a true Spaniard, played the guitar in the popular of disciples of Francisco Tarrega. In writing them Pujol looked to the 1. Pequeiias Sevillanas Joaquin Rodrigo. Schott&Co Ltd Spanish folk style which Carlos began to learn from him when only popular music of Latin America for inspiration; Cuba in the case of 2. Ya se van las pastores Joaquin Rodrigo. Schott &Co Ltd five years old. At ten he began more formal studies of the guitar and Guajira and Argentina for the Tango, though it must be admitted that music. When he was seve"nteen he gained entrance to the Royal College it has more of Havana than Buenos Aires in its rhythm. 3. Fandango Joaquin Rodrigo. Schott&Co Ltd of Music.where he studied under John Williams and Stephen Dodgson. 4. Burgalesa Federico Moreno Torroba. Schott & Co Ltd In 1972 he was appointed Professor of Guitar at the R.C.M. and in the Sueiio (Mazurka). Maria (Gavotte), Capricho Arabe, and Gran Jota are same year made his successful debut at London's Wigmore Hall. The all from the pen of Pujol's teacher, Francisco de Asis Tarrega Eixea 5. Espaiioleta Gaspar Sanz 6. Canarios Gaspar Sanz following year he was nominated 'Young Musician' by the Greater (b. 1852-d. 1909) who laid the foundations of modern guitar technique. 7. Fantasia Elegiaca (Andante Largo-Marche funebre)Femando Sor London Arts Association, a title granted to young artists who a Suei'io and Maria are salon pieces in a style much favoured at the time. committee of eminen~ musicians consider worthy of sponsorship by the With Capricho Arabe and Gran Jota we are once again in the realms of Association. popular and folk inspired music. Capricho Arabe echos the gipsy music of Andalusia whereas the Gran Jota is firmly based on the Apart from solo concert tours in the U.K .. France, Holland, Sweden and popular Jota Aragonesa. In this version Carlos Bonell has cut the Turkey, he has appeared as soloist with such orchestras as the Nash original and uncharacteristic introduction and two variations thus SIDE 2 Ensemble, The Halle and the BBC Scottish Symphony. He has tightening the atmosphere of the work. also made concert tours with 'John Wil Iiams and Friends', appeared as 1. Guajira(Evocaci6n Cubana)Emilio Pujol. Schott & Co Ltd soloist on the Radio 3 series 'The Classical Guitar' and on Television Brincan y bailan, Don Gato, La Serrana and Ya se va la paloma are four 2. Tango Emilio Pujol. Schot\ & Co Ltd 3.Sueiio Mazu rka traditional Spanish songs which Carlos Benell has arranged for solo A lthough Carlos Bonell's tastes in music are wide, the music on this guitar and they come from a set of his published arrangements of folk 4. Maria Gavotte 5. Capricho Arabe 6. Gran Jota Francisco Tarrega record, seems to reflect the love of popular or folk music of Spain songs which he remembers from his childhood.The style of these 7. Brincan y Bailan. Don Gato. La Serrana. Ya se va la paloma as all the pieces except three have popular or folk roots. arrangements allows the simple charm of these little songs to be fully Four Spanish folk songs. Trad: Arr. Bone!I. Dorsey Bros. Ltd. appreciated.

Pequeiia Sevillana, Ya se van los pastores, and Fandango are by the The guitar which Carlos Benell uses on this record, and on all his celebrated Spanish composer Joaquin Rodrigo (b. 1902). Of these three public performances, was made for him by the English luthier David light pieces, the first evokes the pertness and grace of the girls of Rubio. Seville, Ya se van los pastores, is based on a popular song, and the Fandango owes its inspiration to an old folk dance rhythm. Peter Sensier.

Burgalesa by Federico Moreno Torroba (b. 1891) was written in 1928 when he and other composers such as Joaquin Turina were inspired by the growing success and burning enthusiasm of Segovia, to write music of concert quality for the solo guitar.

Espaiioleta and Cana ries are by the 17th century Spanish composer- guitarist Gaspar Sanz and come from his 'I nstrucci6n de Musica sabre la Guitarra Espanola' first published in 1674, which ran to eight editions by the end of the century. Sanz played and wrote for an instrument which differed from the modern guitar. It had five courses (pairs) of strings with the lower two (the A and the D)tuned an octave higher than on the modern instrument. Carlos Bonell made the transcriptions from the original tablature for these two pieces.

Fantasia Elegiaca (Andante largo-Marche funebre) Op.59 is an intense and beautifully sombre work by the celebrated 19th century Spanish guitarist and composer Fernando Sor. Of this piece Sor said; "I should never have presumed to impose on the guitar a task so onerous as that of producing the effects required by the nature of this piece but for the excellent invention of Mr. Aguado .... " The 'excellent invention' was the tripodion, a device which held the guitar so that only the players hands needed to come in contact with the instrument and the vibrations of the back were not damped by the body of the guitarist. With the added resonance of the modern concert guitar this problem is not so evident.

Enigma Records Limited Produced by John Boyden 129 Groveley Road Sunbury on Thames Art direction Peter Whiteside Middlesex TW 167 JZ Art John Hill Photograph Glyn Mead ®1976 Enigma Records Limited This stereo record can also be played with a suitable mono pick up Sleeve printed and made in England by Gothic Print Finishers Ltd. London SE9 2EQ VAR 1015 STEREO

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