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557596 bk Sainz US 28/06/2004 01:40pm Page 8 Laureate Series • Guitar Pablo Sáinz Villegas 2003 Winner: Certamen Internacional de Guitarra “Francisco Tárrega”, Benicásim Pablo Sáinz Villegas JOAQUÍN TURINA (1882-1949) JOAQUÍN RODRIGO (1901-1999) 1 Sevillana (Fantasia) 5:45 @ En los trigales 3:59 Hommage à Tárrega 4:51 # Invocación y danza 8:31 First Prize: 2 I Garrotin 2:39 (Homenaje a Manuel de Falla) 3 II Soleares 2:12 2003 Tárrega International MANUEL DE FALLA (1876 - 1946) FEDERICO MORENO TORROBA (1891-1982) $ Homenaje ‘Le tombeau de Claude Debussy’ 3:45 Guitar Competition, Sonata - Fantasía * 17:07 4 I Lento - Allegretto 10:01 5 II Allegretto 1:43 ROBERTO GERHARD (1896-1970) Benicásim 6 III Allegro 5:23 % Fantasia: Interlude in Cantares 4:39 from Castillos de España 5:42 7 Torija 3:33 ANDRÉS SEGOVIA (1893-1987) 8 Sigüenza 2:10 5 Anecdotas * 10:36 GUITAR RECITAL ^ IAllegretto 2:39 Suite castellana 8:29 & II Allegro moderato con grazia 1:06 9 I Fandanguillo 1:42 * III Lento malinconico 2:55 0 II Arada 4:07 ( IV Molto tranquillo 1:09 ! III Danza 2:40 ) V Allegretto vivo 2:46 FRANCISCO TÁRREGA (1852-1909) ¡ Maria - Gavota 1:28 FALLA • RODRIGO * World première recordings TURINA • TARREGA A MIS QUERIDOS PADRES PABLO Y MAITE POR TODO SU AMOR MORENO TORROBA SEGOVIA • GERHARD 8.557596 8 557596 bk Sainz US 28/06/2004 01:40pm Page 2 Nachahmung der phrygischen, der spanischsten aller Das letzte hier eingespielte Stück ist die Miniatur Pablo Sáinz - Guitar Recital Kirchentonarten; darüber hinaus macht er sich deren Maria – gavota von Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909), der Turina · Moreno Torroba · Rodrigo · Segovia · Falla · Gerhard · Tárrega bitonale Möglichkeiten zunutze. Die Musik stellt zwei oft als Vater der modernen klassischen Gitarre kontrastierende Abschnitte nebeneinander, einen bezeichnet wird – und somit schließt sich der Kreis The composers included here represent the interaction of mainly of short, descriptive pieces, often published in lyrisch-melodischen Teil mit arpeggierten dieser kleinen Anthologie. modernism and romantic nationalism current in Spain collections. This piece, a full- fledged sonata, is among Akkordbrechungen als Unterstützung hauchzarter during the first half of the twentieth century. How Torroba’s most ambitious and masterful works. We can Flageolett-Töne und einen von rhythmischem Spanish composers dealt with integrating the inherited only venture to guess why Segovia never performed it, Vorwärtsdrall gekennzeichneten Teil. Die Übergänge Mark Delpriora musical wealth of their country’s popular tradition with as it is clearly to his taste. Be that as it may, we are zwischen den einzelnen Abschnitten gestaltet Gerhard the infusion of new concepts of musical thought in fortunate to have available a major contribution to guitar mit äußerster Formvollendung. Deutsche Fassung; Bernd Delfs Europe at the time is in itself revealing, contributing, in repertoire and to twentieth-century Spanish guitar part, to the power of the music. sonatas in general, a collection that includes sonatas by Joaquín Turina (1882-1949) contributed a small but Turina, José, Manén, and Esplá. Torroba’s music is significant body of pieces to the guitar repertoire. A firmly rooted in Spanish nationalism with elements of friend of Manuel de Falla and student of Vincent d’Indy impressionism occasionally present, such as the use of in Paris, he began his career with a Piano Quintet (1907) modes, parallelism, extended chords and a general influenced by his Parisian studies. The style of that work appreciation of colour. Those who know Torroba’s work soon gave way to an exploration of the potentialities of will be struck by the opening sonorities of the Spanish folk-music, especially flamenco. This re- introduction, sonorities which lead, by way of an invigorated the harmony and rhythm of his music even arpeggiated altered chord, to a passage of fourths and as he maintained an affinity for cyclical and classical fifths, horns and trumpets signaling to the listener the forms. The two works here included are Sevillana sonata’s first theme. Throughout the course of the piece, (Fantasia), Op. 29, (1923) and Homenaje a Tárrega, Pablo Sáinz Villegas chooses to finger many passages of Op. 69, (1932). These are the first and last pieces written this sonata campanelas, in imitation of the piano’s for guitar by Turina, both directly inspired by flamenco sustaining pedal, thus allowing for the blurring effect of music. Sevillana begins with a strong, dramatic gesture, the French Impressionists. The second movement, a somewhat rough and crude, as if a field worker applied short intermezzo, is followed by the finale, a his dirty, calloused hands to the guitar. His fingers, tense conventional Rondo. Also included are two movements from work, are incapable of independent movement, so from Torroba’s Castillos de España, the lullaby, he slides his gnarled fist around the fingerboard creating Sigüenza (La infantina duerma) and Torija (Elegía). striking, expressive dissonances. The music soon evokes The Suite Castellana consists of three movements, flamenco singing. The Homenaje a Tárrega consists of Fandanguillo, a setting of a Spanish popular song, the two movements, a garrotin and soleares. The work is expressive Arada with its colourful harmony and nominally a hommage to the great Spanish guitarist indecisive melodic turns, and Danza. This last Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909), but is, perhaps, an movement of the suite was the first piece that Torroba unwitting acknowledgment of Tárrega’s teacher, Julian ever wrote for the guitar in 1920 . Arcas. Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) lived a long, The Sonata-Fantasía by Federico Moreno Torroba productive life and holds a place in the cultural life of (1891-1982) was found among Segovia’s manuscripts in Spain alongside Manuel de Falla. His music was May, 2001, by the great Italian musician, Angelo influenced by the neo-classicism of Stravinsky and the Gilardino, and has been published by Berben Edizioni colourful orchestration of Ravel. In addition, Rodrigo Musicali. Torroba’s many solo guitar works consist had a penchant for sharp dissonances that can be 8.557596 2 7 8.557596 557596 bk Sainz US 28/06/2004 01:40pm Page 6 (Elegía). Die Suite Castellana besteht aus drei Sätzen, verbirgt sich hier mehr, als man zunächst vermuten explained as bi-tonal, but this was often a colouristic concise work of just about three minutes duration, the einem Fandanguillo, der Vertonung eines beliebten würde. Segovia verwendet die Vortragsbezeichnung device, sometimes used for humorous or sardonic effect. work was written for an issue of the Paris Revue spanischen Lieds, der ausdrucksvollen Arada mit ihren humoristico mehrere Male, und die Musik erinnert The two pieces here are among the best solo guitar dedicated to the memory of the recently deceased farbigen Harmonien und unschlüssigen melodischen entfernt, zumindest in den Ohren des Verfassers dieser works of Rodrigo. The first is the brief En los trigales Claude Debussy (1863-1918). In this work Falla Wendungen, sowie dem Finalsatz, Danza. Dieser letzte Zeilen, an Richard Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegels lustige (In the Wheat Fields), the outer sections of which have a combines a habanera dance rhythm with a sighing, Satz der Suite war 1920 das erste Stück, das Torroba für Streiche. In der Quintessenz handelt es sich hier um die most infectious rhythmic lilt. The middle section is a plaintive F-E pitch motif demonstrating the duality of Gitarre schrieb. Musik eines großen Interpreten, der nebenbei auch strange, quizzical march interrupted by syncopated the corporal and the spiritual. Falla quotes Debussy’s Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999) lebte ein langes, komponiert – voller vertrauter, geschickt auf das harmonics and quartal harmonies. Invocación y Danza is piano piece Soirée dans Grenade near the end, the schöpferisch erfülltes Leben. Neben Manuel de Falla Instrument übertragener musikalischer Techniken, aber a great work, a hommage to Manuel de Falla. Rodrigo pitches of which transubstantiate into Debussy’s final nimmt er einen Ehrenplatz in der Kulturgeschichte auch vom inneren Gehalt her nicht ohne Originalität. cleverly quotes El amor brujo in the opening measures breaths. Spaniens ein. Seine Musik wurde von Strawinskys Homenaje, pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy von by simply placing the pitches of Falla’s tune on the first Spiritual tension is nowhere more apparent than in Neoklassizismus und der farbigen Instrumentation eines Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) gehört zweifellos zu den and last notes of each measure and interpolating four the figure of Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970). Born in Maurice Ravel inspiriert. Darüber hinaus hatte Rodrigo Meisterwerken des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Die 1920 notes in between. The tune is so stretched out as to be Spain of Alsatian and German-Swiss parentage, Gerhard eine Vorliebe für scharfe Dissonanzen, die man als entstandene Komposition gehört zu Fallas barely recognisable. Rodrigo quotes other works of Falla identified himself as Catalan. A student of Granados and „bitonal” bezeichnen könnte, aber dabei handelte es sich neoklassizistischen Werken. Evoziert wird das von as well in loving tribute to his mentor. Felipe Pedrell, he later became a student of, and an meist um ein Mittel der Klangfarbe zur Erzeugung von barocken Lautenisten und Gitarristen praktizierte Along with performers such as Artur Schnabel and assistant to, Arnold Schoenberg. Among Gerhard’s early humoristischen Effekten. Die beiden hier eingespielten Tombeau-Genre. Es ist ein kurzes, gerade einmal drei Pablo Casals, Andrés Segovia, too, composed music, activities was transcribing folk-songs from gramophone Stücke gehören zu seinen schönsten Werken für Minuten dauerndes Stück, geschrieben für die Paris Segovia, perhaps, more modestly. His work 5 records, following the example of Bartók. Later he Sologitarre. Das erste ist das kurze En los trigales (In Revue als Hommage an den kurz zuvor verstorbenen Anecdotas, published by Guitar Review in New York in embraced twelve-tone techniques and wrote pioneering den Weizenfeldern), dessen Außenabschnitte mit einem Claude Debussy (1863-1918).