Six Romances in Old Style di Boris Asaf'ev

[Cristiano Porqueddu]

La prima registrazione assoluta delle Six Romances in Old Style di Boris Vladimirovic Asafiev (1884 - 1949).

"Similarly to the major composers of younger generation S. Gubaidulina and E. Denisov, Asafiev enjoyed an ambitious musical career in which writing for guitar was a small episode.  Very likely his guitar output was connected to his own raving review of Segovia’s concert in 1926. According to Matanya Ophee who unearthed Asafiev’s guitar music in an archive in Moscow and published it in 1994, all of his compositions for guitar solo were created in 1939-1940.  By this time, Asafiev had no contact with Segovia, and it is not completely clear who these short pieces were intended for.  A composer of 11 operas and 28 ballets, as well as many other large-sale symphonic and choral works, Asafiev chose to write miniatures or cycles of such when it came to guitar." - Arcady Ivannikov, 2017