Guitar
SKU:
UT.CH-227
Edited by
Piero Bonaguri. Saddle
stitching. Piero Bonaguri
Collection. Classical. Ut
Orpheus #CH 227.
Published by Ut Orpheus
(UT.CH-227).
ISBN
9790215324145. 9 x 12
inches.
Emilio
Calandin: Piccola
sfumatura
Claudia
Montero: Lagrimas
de Buenos Aires
Marco
Reghezza: Como
Preludio
Marco
Smaili:
Preludio
Alessand
ro Spazzoli:
Preludio in Do
maggiore
Roberto
Tagliamacco:
Prelude sur le nom de
Tarrega
Paolo
Ugoletti: Prelude
sur le nom de
Tarrega
Having
been invited several
times onto the jury of
the prestigious
Certamen Tarrega
in Benicasim, I thought I
would involve a few
composers in a gift to
the father of the modern
guitar. So I asked the
composers to write a
Prelude of the kind that
Tarrega wrote and which
count among his most
significant
compositions.
These
Preludes for Tarrega, all
written between August
and November 2015, are
very different from each
other. The common
feature, however, between
these and the Preludes by
Tarrega is their brevity,
an average level of
performance difficulty
and guaranteed easy
listening, even when
written in a non-tonal
language (like the
meditative and melancholy
piece by Emilio Calandin
and the one by Marco
Smaili, with its
Impressionistic feel
reminding one of
Tarrega's most famous
pupil, Miguel
Llobet).
In some
Preludes (the ones by
Paolo Ugoletti, Roberto
Tagliamacco, Claudia
Montero) the reference to
Lagrima, one of
Tarrega's most famous
Preludes, is evident in
form, title and some
citations. Ugoletti and
Tagliamacco work well and
expressively on harmony
and counterpoint, while
the Argentinian Claudia
Montero links Tarrega to
a heartbreaking Buenos
Aires...
In Alessandro
Spazzoli there is rather
more a connection with
Tarrega's sense of melody
and deep simplicity,
while Marco Reghezza
remembers ironically what
was brewing in European
music when Tarrega was
alive: in fact, his
Como Preludio goes
across the 24 keys - and
even a reference to
Wagner's Tristan
raises its head...
I
am delighted for this
volume to come out at the
time of the fiftieth
edition of the Certamen
Tarrega.
(Piero
Bonaguri).
Liam Howe
