Guitar
SKU:
UT.CH-363
An
Anthology of Contemporary
Music (Rodriguez, Silva,
Zapata Bello) for
Guitar. Edited by
Piero Bonaguri. Piero
Bonaguri Collection.
Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH
363. Published by Ut
Orpheus (UT.CH-363).
ISBN 9790215327375. 9
x 12
inches.
Jhibaro
RodrÃguez: Los
diamantes
EfraÃ
n Silva: Alirio
DÃaz (Danza
Zuliana)
Francisc
o Zapata Bello:
Cancioncilla. Serenata
caracteristica (Homenaje
a Alirio
DÃaz)
I
welcome with great
enthusiasm the
publication of this
collection of music by
Venezuelan
guitarist-composers. I am
certain that my father
would also have been
happy, in that it shows
the productiveness and
continuity of the
Venezuelan school of
composition, ever careful
as to its own
individuality while
adhering to the canons of
so-called cultured
music.
My thanks go to
Maestro Piero Bonaguri
who, with devotion and
gratitude towards one of
his teachers (whose birth
centenary occurs in
2023), has completed this
important work aimed at
spreading the new
Venezuelan musical
heritage, and I also
thank all the composers
who, with great
commitment, have wished
to honour their fellow
citizen:
Alirio.
(Senio
Diaz)
I am very
happy with the release of
this anthology of pieces
written in homage to the
great guitarist Alirio
DÃaz in the
contemporary music series
that I manage.
For
many years I attended his
summer courses, in Italy
and abroad, and meeting
Maestro DÃaz, who over
time also honoured me
with his friendship, was
fundamental for my
education.
I was also
particularly pleased and
honoured when he invited
me to play with him in
Venezuela, and then to
have played, in the
church of the Artists in
Rome, on the sad occasion
of his funeral.
The
pieces in this volume,
which by happy
coincidence comes out
near the hundredth
anniversary of the birth
of the great guitarist,
were written by composers
who are also guitarists
and demonstrate that
impressive integration in
the repertoire of the
cultivated guitar of
themes and colours of
Venezuelan folk music,
which is one of the
fundamental artistic
contributions of Alirio
DÃaz, who wrote that
folk music is as
important and cultivated
as cultivated music
itself.
(Piero
Bonaguri).