For his first solo recording, Adrien Brogna highlights \u2013 in a double album \u2013 two highly contrasting musical periods.<\/p>\n
ROMANTIC, Two waltzes by Chopin arranged by Roland Dyens frame works by Legnani, Coste and Sor. Adrien Brogna recorded them on an eight-string romantic guitar (Replica Stauffer) by Bernhard Kresse<\/p>\n
MODERN, features compositions by Brazilian composers S\u00e9rgio Assad and Marlos Nobre, preceded by an Hommage \u00e0 Roland Dyens by Belgian Boris Gaquere. Adrien Brogna recorded them on an eight-string guitar by Peter Barton, as well as the piece called by Osvaldo Golijov his \u00ab V \u00bb gymnopedie. This enigmatic letter V perfectly titles the double album of a musician born under the double sign of Gemini\u2026<\/p>\n
A waltz by their colleague pianist Chopin introduces selected works by three guitar masters, the Italian Legnani, the French Coste and the Spanish Sor. They share the contents\u00a0of the romantic part of this double album.<\/p>\n
The year 1819 is an important year for Luigi Legnani, he publishes his first composition for solo guitar and makes his debut as a guitarist at the\u00a0Scala de Milano<\/em>. This is the starting point of his guitar virtuoso career. He concertizes extensively throughout Europe for many years and publishes some 250 works, the very last one being a method (1) available in several countries. Nowadays, Legnani\u2019s music is mostly known through his 36\u00a0Capricci\u00a0<\/em>opus 20, perhaps inspired by those for violin by his fellow countryman and friend Niccolo Paganini. His\u00a0Fantasia<\/em>\u00a0opus 19 was written when he was about 30 years old.<\/p>\n The Viennese guitar maker Johann Georg Stauffer developed, in cooperation with the famous virtuoso, the so-called “Legnani-model”. This guitar was copied\u00a0 for many yearsb y several guitar makers including Ren\u00e9 Lacote in Paris. On this album, Adrien Brogna plays an eight-string guitar (Replica Stauffer) by Bernhard Kresse.<\/p>\n In 1830, the publication year of Fernando Sor\u2019s \u00ab\u00a0M\u00e9thode compl\u00e8te pour la guitare<\/em>\u00bb, Coste -24 years old – arrives in Paris. He already had made a name as a guitarist in the North of France and seeks to meet the numerous guitar masters established in Paris. He takes lessons with Sor. One says that they play as a duo in an acclaimed concert in 1838.<\/p>\n The selection of 4 studies by Napol\u00e9on Coste recorded here comes from the \u00ab\u00a025 \u00e9tudes de genre opus 38\u00a0\u00bb published in Paris by Richault around 1873. We learn from the foreword that they are presented \u00ab\u00a0to the appreciation of artists and studious amateurs faithful to the guitar\u00a0\u00bb.\u00a0 Coste dedicates those studies of an\u00a0 indisputably didactic and aesthetic quality to \u00ab\u00a0talented amateurs and to dear former students\u00a0\u00bb. He mentions also that he has been using \u2013 \u00ab\u00a0for a long time\u00a0\u00bb an extra floating 7th bass string (D) which is \u00ab\u00a0of great resource\u00bb and \u00ab\u00a0very imperfectly replaced by the 4th string\u00a0\u00bb. Indeed, he was famous for playing the so-called Lacote Heptachord. This instrument is the fruit of his collaboration with the luthier Ren\u00e9 Lacote, active in Paris, rue de Richelieu, known to be open to players\u2018 suggestions. His guitars were endorsed by several guitar masters including Sor, Carulli, Zani de Ferranti, Carcassi and Aguado. Adrien Brogna\u2019s eight-string guitar made possible, in the recording of the studies nr1 and 3, the presence of this D bass dear to the French master.<\/p>\n Coste becomes probably Sor\u2019s most loyal disciple. After his death, he edits and republishes Sor’s original method for guitar, writing and bequeathing for posterity an invaluable expanded version of the work (2) by the great Spanish master.<\/p>\n Sor\u00a0 wrote a dozen fantasies. The last one, his opus 59 composed in 1835, is the \u00ab\u00a0Fantaisie \u00e9l\u00e9giaque \u00e0 la mort de Madame Beslay, n\u00e9e Levasseur<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb. The work dedicated to the memory of a former pupil of his who died in childbirth, stands out by its particular length, its absence of virtuosity and its painful expression throughout the work.<\/p>\n Parisian from 1831 to his death in 1849, would Chopin have crossed Sor\u2019s or Coste\u2019s path? Roland Dyens\u2019 consummate skill for the arrangement makes possible this virtual meeting of the three musicians.\u00a0 Two waltzes by the Polish pianist revisited with art by the French guitarist have no trouble convincing us of it.<\/p>\n (1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Metodo per imparare a conoscere la musica e suonare la\u00a0<\/em>Chitarra, composto colla massima semplicit\u00e0 e chiarezza,\u00a0<\/em>Ricordi, 1847.<\/p>\n (2)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 M\u00e9thode compl\u00e8te pour la guitare par Ferdinand Sor r\u00e9dig\u00e9e et augment\u00e9e de nombreux exemples et le\u00e7ons suivis d\u2019une notice sur la 7\u00e8me<\/sup>\u00a0corde par N. Coste, publi\u00e9e \u00e0 Paris par Schonenberger, boulevard Poissonni\u00e8re 28, propri\u00e9t\u00e9 de l\u2019\u00e9diteur.<\/p>\n Hommage \u00e0 Roland Dyens\u00a0<\/em>is a commission by the GHA label to Belgian guitarist and composer Boris Gaquere, a former student of S\u00e9rgio and Odair Assad. The work, in four movements, was written extremely fast, a few weeks after the death of the incomparable French guitarist. In the four movements of this composition, Roland Dyens\u2019 soundscape is evoked and his spirit captured in an astonishing way.<\/p>\n Like in Roland Dyens\u2019 concerts, the work\u00a0starts with an\u00a0Improvisation.<\/em>\u00a0The title of the second movement –\u00a0Il pleut sur Ville d\u2019Avray –<\/em>\u00a0a touching lament, refers to the place where Boris Vian was born and died and where Roland Dyens lived for several years before moving to Paris. His piece\u00a0Ville d\u2019Avril<\/em>, composed in 1999, is an homage to the French writer. The third movement,\u00a0Claquettes in the Ska\u00ef<\/em>, introduces at the same time swing and a feeling of happiness while the last movement,\u00a0Roll and Rock<\/em>, gives the homage a groovy touch.<\/p>\n In the language Tupi-Guarani used by numerous tribes in Brazil,\u00a0carioca<\/em>\u00a0meant \u00ab\u00a0the house of the white man\u00a0\u00bb referring to the houses built by the Portuguese in Rio. Today, it means \u00ab\u00a0native from Rio de Janeiro\u00a0\u00bb. S\u00e9rgio Assad\u2019s\u00a0Fantasia Carioca<\/em>\u00a0was written in 1994. It belongs, with\u00a0Aquarelle<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Three Greek Letters<\/em>, to his first compositions for solo guitar. The\u00a0Fantasia Carioca<\/em>\u00a0is based on two themes treated to different kinds of development such as canonic, polyphonic, and rhythmic throughout the piece. According to the composer, frequent changes of tempo and of dynamics are directly related to the\u00a0carioca<\/em>\u00a0spirit.<\/p>\n Marlos Nobre wrote\u00a0Reminiscencias<\/em>, the required piece for the 51st International Performer Competition in Gen\u00e8ve, in 1991. It consists of three parts –\u00a0Ch\u00f4ro<\/em>,\u00a0Seresta<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0Frevo<\/em>\u00a0– inspired\u00a0by those Brazilian popular musical genres and rhythms. The term\u00a0ch\u00f4ro<\/em>\u00a0names a group of\u00a0carioca\u00a0<\/em>instrumentalists\u00a0joining to play a music blending European dances (polka, waltz and schottish), Portuguese popular music and Afro-Brazilian influences. This music adopts its definitive form during the second half of the nineteenth century. The word\u00a0seresta<\/em>, which appears in Brazil in the twentieth century, is a new designation for the\u00a0serenata<\/em>\u00a0imported by the Portuguese which became quickly a predominant urban musical genre. Originally, the\u00a0seresta<\/em>\u00a0was a sentimental tune accompanied by guitar chords. It was sung in the streets at night. The\u00a0frevo\u00a0<\/em>names both frenetic and vigorous music and dance performed mainly during the Carnival period in Recife, Marlos Nobre\u2019s hometown. The\u00a0frevo<\/em>\u00a0was inscribed in 2012 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.<\/p>\n The \u00ab\u00a0V\u00a0\u00bb melody by Argentinian Osvaldo Golijov\u00a0 makes part of the music that he composed in 2012 for the film TWIXT by Francis Ford Coppola.\u00a0 V stands for Virginia who is the dead daughter of the main character in the movie. 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