All the compositions featured on this album recorded by Alexandre Bernoud were originally written for the guitar, they were all composed during the 20th century by several contrasting musical personalities.<\/p>\n
\u00abJazz Sonata\u00bb by Serbian composer Dusan Bogdanovic was written in 1982. It is a synthesis of two seemingly divergent compositional techniques. It relies on the Sonata form for its architectural profile, while simultaneously leaving enough space for the improvisational elements. The rhythm is a combination of mostly African and Balkan meters whereas the harmony and melody derive from late Romantic music and Jazz. The first movement is in a relatively strict Sonata form, the second movement follows a Ballad outline, the third movement is based on minimal, irregularly reiterated motifs and the last movement is built on an African pattern in 12\/8 meter. It might be interesting to note that the last movement was originally conceived for a fusion Rock band.
\nDusan Bogdanovic taught for many years at Belgrade Conservatory and then at San Francisco Conservatory. He is currently based in Geneva, the town where he studied guitar with Maria Livia Sao Marcos and composition and orchestration with Pierre Wissmer.<\/p>\n
It is in Geneva \u2013 where he lived from 1930 to 1935 \u2013 that Andr\u00e9s Segovia premiered the \u00ab Sonatina Meridional \u00bb written in 1932 by Manuel Ponce on Segovia\u2019s request : \u201cwhy don’t you write a Sonatina \u2013 not a Sonata \u2013 of purely Spanish character? It could be offered to Schott, to go in the series of medium difficulty\u201d. The Mexican composer\u2019s interest in the guitar dates from 1923, the year of his meeting with Segovia at the occasion of his first recital in Mexico. He dedicates his \u00ab Sonata Mexicana \u00bb to the guitarist who becomes soon a fervent supporter of his music. Segovia plays Manuel Ponce\u2019s compositions in his concerts and helps him to publish his sonatas, preludes, themes and variations, pieces inspired by popular music as well as the famous \u00ab Concierto del sur \u00bb.<\/p>\n
Did Frank Martin attend the premiere of the \u00ab Sonatina meridional \u00bb in Geneva? Either way, he lives in this town where he was born in 1890; he is the tenth and last child of a minister of religion. It is said that Segovia would have given the Swiss composer some pages by Castelnuovo Tedesco in order to make him discover the specific world of the guitar. In 1933, a manuscript copy of the \u00ab Quatre pi\u00e8ces br\u00e8ves \u00bb – Martin\u2019s unique contribution to the repertoire of the guitar \u2013 is offered to the Spanish guitarist. Worried about his silence, the composer realizes, a few months later, an arrangement on the same themes: the work, a suite for piano entitled \u00ab Guitare \u00bb, is a portrait of Andr\u00e9s Segovia\u2026 On request of his friend the conductor Ernest Ansermet, Martin also produces an orchestral version of the \u00ab Quatre pi\u00e8ces br\u00e8ves \u00bb premiered a year later, in 1934.<\/p>\n
South America is present on this recording through works by Colombian Jaime Cordoba and Argentinian Carlos Aguirre.<\/p>\n
Jaime Cordoba started his musical studies with his father. He wrote, at an early age, duos, trios and quartets inspired by popular Colombian music. Later, in Equador where he lives during the 1970\u2019s, he learns a lot about folklore with Homero Hidrovo, guitarist and requinto player. Then, in France, Jaime Cordoba studies at the Conservatoire national de Metz under the direction of Jean-Jacques Griesser and Claude Poletti. He meets Alexandre Bernoud in 2003 and composes \u201cSuite colombiana\u201d for his guitar quartet.<\/p>\n
Thanks to his frequent contacts with Eduardo Isaac who lives in the same town, in South Argentina, pianist, composer and arranger, Carlos Aguirre discovers the world of the guitar. His compositions are a kind of compromise between the technique of classical guitar and popular rhythms from Argentina. \u00ab Romanza \u00bb, \u00ab Rumor de tambores \u00bb (a candombe) and \u00ab La calma \u00bb makes part of his suite \u00ab Imagenes \u00bb which gave its name to Alexandre Bernoud\u2019s album.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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