Many of them, supported by Segovia himself, dismantled Berlioz’s peremptory statement. These include the success of Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia, the arrival of the guitar in the most important concert halls, and, in parallel, the discovery of this instrument by excellent composers who were not guitarist.
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This album photographs a historical moment – the early twentieth century – in which a series of deeply intertwined phenomena took place. The French composer was just sanctioning a matter of fact, establishing an implicit taboo which would be overcome only in the first years of the twentieth century. One should not be surprised, then, that Hector Berlioz, in his Grand Traité d’instrumentation et d’orchestration modernes, stated that it was impossible to write properly for the guitar without being able to play it. This last detail is non-negligible: when the guitar, in the last quarter of the eighteenth century, established its morphology with six single strings, its repertoire lived for a long time on the exclusive contribution of composers who were, at the same time, pre-eminent virtuosos of this instrument. It does not store any personal data.Guitarist Antonino Ielo authors his debut album with a collection of solo guitar works from the early 1900s, written by composers from the Mediterranean area, all of whom were non-guitarists. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance".
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Camino is the first fruit of an exclusive collaboration with PENTATONE. Multi-award-winning guitarist Sean Shibe brings a fresh and innovative approach to the traditional classical guitar, while also exploring contemporary music and repertoire for electric guitar. In that respect, Camino also documents Shibe’s personal quest to overcome the challenges of a time dominated by Covid-19, and to ultimately see the world anew. Shibe has deliberately granted Mompou a central role on this album, as his music demonstrates that melancholy, aimlessness and a whole host of other feelings are not things to be avoided or fixed or solved, but experiences to be felt deeply: not with sad nostalgia, but with genuine wonder and excitement at what this means for the future. INTROSPECTIVE EXPLORATION OF FRENCH-SPANISH MUSICAL BORDERSĬamino is guitarist Sean Shibe’s first PENTATONE album, an introspective programme exploring French-Spanish musical borders, a pilgrimage leading from Ravel’s Pavane pour une Infante défunte, Satie’s Gymnopédie No.1 and Gnossiennes 1 and 3, Poulenc’s Sarabande, De Falla’s Miller’s Dance and Homaje, pour le Tombeau de Debussy and José’s Pavana triste all the way to Mompou’s Canços i dansas 6 and 10, as well as his Suite compostelana.