Par STEPHENSON JOSEPHINE. From a short French poem by Antoine Thiollier, Stephenson uses an Oulipian process to amalgamate the words with similar sounding English words to gradually abstract the meaning behind them; the words seemingly melt into musical sounds. The hypnotic nature of the guitar writing allows this to happen almost imperceptibly with long phrases of sustained emotional atmosphere rising and falling quite naturally before the music appears to gently evaporate at the close. The way in which the two languages merge is a touching reflection of the fact that Stephenson and (Héloïse) Werner, friends since childhood in Paris, both moved to the UK to study and there continued their long friendship. (Colin Alexander) / Date parution : 2023-01-24/ Répertoire / Voix et Guitare

Cet arrangement d'une chanson d'opéra de 1953 de Britten ' Gloriana ' Date de 1957. Il a été enregistré par Peter Pears et Julian Bream et souvent inclus dans leurs programmes de récital. Cet arrangement exquis est maintenant imprimé pour la première fois. Julian Bream a appliqué des révisions mineures pour la présente publication. / Voix Et Guitare

Valencian composer Ruperto Chapi (1851 1909) was a popular and important artist in Spain in his time writing symphonic band Choral and chamber works as well as more than one hundred zarzuelas many of which ran more than one hundred nights on the stage in Madrid and elsewhere. This form of comic musical semi-opera employed both spoken dialogue and musical numbers. This song Carceleras Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores from Las Hijas Del Zebedeo has retained its popularity and is frequently performed and recorded.The style is almost a patter song allegretto requiring verbal and Vocal dexterity from the soloist. The text is in Spanish untranslated.