Les Productions d'OZ pubblicano la English Suite No.3 Op.78 di John W. Duarte (1919-2004)

La casa editrice canadese Les Productions d’OZ ha pubblicato la composizione A Night’s Tale del compositore piemontese @Alfredo Franco (1967)

La Naxos pubblica il CD di Duilio Meucci xxxxxxxxxxx, primo volume dell'integrale dedicato alla musica per chitarra sola di Reginald Smith-Brindle.

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Although Smith Brindle composed a variety of works including an opera, he is best known for his guitar music. The poetic and lyrical Etruscan Preludes express the mystery of an ancient and lost civilisation, while the enigmatic El Polifemo de oro expresses poet and playwright Federico García Lorca’s attribution of occult powers to the guitar. From the beautifully expressive Nocturne to the extreme effects of Percussion Piece (from Guitarcosmos, Vol. 3), the sheer virtuosity of invention in Smith Brindle’s guitar music led Julian Bream to commend his diversity of style and clarity of intention.

Reginald Smith Brindle, British composer and writer, born in Cuerden, Lancashire, studied various musical instruments throughout his life including the guitar, clarinet and saxophone, and later the organ. But his gifts lay particularly in the direction of composition and scholarly research. During the Second World War he served in Africa and Italy in the Royal Engineers. From 1946 to 1949 he studied music at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, before going to Italy to further his compositional work with Pizzetti and Dallapiccola, and Germani for organ.

La casa editrice canadese Les Productions d'OZ pubblica la composizione Sonata in D minor Op.4 di John W. Duarte (1919-2004).

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La revisione è stata curata dallo scrivente basandosi sul manoscritto autografo fornito direttamente dagli eredi del compositore.

L'editore canadese Les Productions d'OZ ( @Eric Dussault ) pubblica la nuova Sonata "Saudade" per chitarra sola di cui ho curato la revisione.

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La nuova composizione per chitarra sola In An English Garden di Dušan Bogdanović, è pubblicata da Les Productions d'OZ ( @Eric Dussault ) ed è disponibile in formato digitale (PDF) e cartaceo. 

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Hommage au guitariste-compositeur anglais John Duarte, In an English Garden est un court triptyque néo-baroque basé sur un charmant fragment harmonique du deuxième mouvement de l’œuvre bien connue du compositeur English Suite. Le plan du Prélude est dans le style de l’Ouverture française et la Sarabande accompagnée du Double est calquée sur la Partita n°1 en si mineur de Bach. La citation « Assis dans un jardin anglais, attendant le soleil » est tirée d’une de mes chansons préférées de John Lennon, I Am The Walrus.

 

La casa discografica olandese Brilliant Classics pubblica il CD Margola: Chamber Sonatas  with Guitar dell'Ensemble Counterpoint composto da

Piergiacomo Buso chitarra
Marco Longhi chitarra
Andrea Rinaudo chitarra
Alberto Lauro chitarra
Tommaso Maria Maggiolini flauto
Marcella Mammone violino

Tracklist dettagliata:
https://www.brilliantclassics.com/articles/m/margola-chamber-sonatas-with-guitar/

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Franco Margola (1908–1992) was an Italian composer who was active throughout the 20th century. During his lifetime, he dedicated himself to composing pieces for musicians in the academic sector, where he found fertile ground and was widely commissioned for both pedagogical and non-educational purposes. His career included various teaching and leadership posts at several Italian conservatoires, not least the Conservatorio di Musica ‘Arrigo Boito’ in Parma, where he taught composition from 1963 to 1975. Here, thanks to a collaboration with the guitar teacher Renzo Cabassi, he began to compose numerous works for guitar (approximately 250 opus numbers).

Margola maintained a close relationship with the historic roots of his art form, and although he experimented with the avant-garde in his youth, he abandoned such tendencies in his more mature compositions. His works are characterised by a ‘rhythmic vitality, a “classical” phrase structure, clear diatonicism, and a frequent use of fourths and fifths that recall the elements of his early compositions.’

The aim of this recording is to offer listeners a selection of colourful soundscapes that vary according to the different ensembles. The guitar is the star of this album and takes on new colours in combination with the flute and violin, as well as in guitar duos and trios. Margola’s sonatas often provide opening movements that are diatonic and atonal, followed by lyrical cantabile second movements that culminate in sparkling third movements evoking a medieval or baroque feel.

The guitar trio configuration features some of the composer’s lesser-known works: Sonata (dC 281), the Sonata (dC 228) and Sonata II for three guitars (dC 234). The violin and guitar duo performs the Sonatina (dC 259) and Sonata (dC 754) (first recording). The one-movement Sonata’s affinities with the Sonatina indicate that it was probably a preliminary sketch for the latter piece, with which it shares tonalities and several melodic ideas. To the flute and guitar duo are devoted Sonata IV (dC 191) and Sonata II (dC 197). Finally, the last two sonatas on this disc (dC 661 and dC 662) are for guitar duo. The unpublished Sonata (dC 661) was transcribed from an old copy of a manuscript with several parts that were almost illegible, making the transcribers’ work a musical challenge that involved balancing notational accuracy with interpretive freedom, guided by a profound understanding of the composer’s musical language.

L'editore canadese Les Productions d'OZ ( @Eric Dussault ) pubblica il nuovo lavoro per chitarra sola del compositore americano David Leisner "...empty mind, open heart...".
L'oper si articola in quattro movimenti:

1. empty your mind
2. it is flows through all things
3. the equilibrium crumbles
4. open your heart

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Dédiée à la sommité Steve Cowan, … esprit vide, cœur ouvert… est une suite en quatre mouvements centrée sur les intervalles d'une quinte et d'un triton. Chaque mouvement est inspiré d'une citation du Tao Te Ching de Lao Tseu. Le mouvement d’ouverture est une méditation. Les rythmes aléatoires et le rythme des notes sont guidés par la respiration de l'interprète, selon des instructions spécifiques de la partition. De cette atmosphère émerge une série d’arpèges fluides et sereins aux rythmes irréguliers dans le deuxième mouvement. Chaque nouvel accord ne change qu'une ou deux notes à la fois selon une évolution progressive dans le temps. Le troisième mouvement est une étude du rythme, parfois vertigineuse. Et la pièce se termine par un monologue sincère, plutôt calme.