Guitar
SKU:
UT.CH-289
Edited by
Piero Bonaguri. Saddle
stitching. Piero Bonaguri
Collection. Classical. Ut
Orpheus #CH 289.
Published by Ut Orpheus
(UT.CH-289).
ISBN
9790215325852. 9 x 12
inches.
Giovanni
Podera: Fantasia
(In memoriam JoaquÃn
Rodrigo)
Marco
Reghezza: Nana
Estrellada
Marco
Simoni: Junto a
Rodrigo
Marco
Smaili: Fronda de
la tarde (Homenaje a
JoaquÃn
Rodrigo)
Paolo
Ugoletti: Fuga a
4
voci
Following
the successful
publication of
Homenaje a Rodrigo
(2015), containing four
pieces by Alessandro
Spazzoli – one of
which was performed in
the presence of the
composer’s
daughter, Cecilia
Rodrigo, during her visit
to the International
Convention in Alessandria
–, here is the
second volume. It
contains more tributes to
Rodrigo written on my
input by five well-known
Italian and Spanish
composers, two of whom
are also guitarists and
have therefore written
the fingering for their
own pieces.
Giovanni
Podera plunges us into a
typically Rodrigo-like
atmosphere with his
evocative
Fantasia, while
the following three
compositions are full of
direct quotations from
pieces also for guitar by
the great composer from
Valencia. Thus, Marco
Simoni, in his expressive
Junto a Rodrigo
– which also
provides the title to the
volume – plays
with themes taken from
Junto al
Generalife and from
Dos piezas
caballerescas for a
cello ensemble as well as
hinting at reminiscences
of Tiento antiguo.
As for Marco Smaili, in
his impressionistic
Fronda de la
tarde, he evokes
quite evidently
Zarabanda lejana
and Invocación y
Danza, but there are
more hidden references to
Caminos de
Santiago and even to
the very famous
Concierto de
Aranjuez. Marco
Reghezza builds his
heart-breaking Nana
estrellada on a
sequence of chords used
by Rodrigo in the
fantasia ¡Que buen
caminito!.
On the
other hand, there are no
direct quotations and
echoes of
Rodrigo’s way of
writing in the Fuga a
quattro voci by Paolo
Ugoletti. However it was
Rodrigo himself who
constructed four-part
imitative passages for
guitar in
Pasacalle and in
the Ricercare of the
Fantasia para un
Gentilhombre. The
close polyphony of the
piece by Ugoletti may be
considered as a tribute
to this kind of craft
shown by Rodrigo who,
like Ugoletti, was able
to write such dense and
idiomatic counterpoint
without being a
guitar-player.
I am
pleased that this volume
comes out in the
imminence of the 20th
anniversary of the
disappearance of the
illustrious Spanish
composer who gave so much
to the musicians –
and not only to
them.
(Piero
Bonaguri)
Mucha
s gracias por este
emotivo y excelente
musical homenaje a mi
padre. La edición es
excelente y la
difundiremos con todos
nuestros medios por las
redes sociales a nuestro
alcance. Ha sido un gran
trabajo por su parte,
fruto de sus grandes
conocimientos
guitarrÃsticos y su
devoción por
JoaquÃn Rodrigo.Â
Le reitero mi gratitud y
mi felicitación con el
ruego transmita a los
cinco compositores mi
felicitación y deseos
de éxito.
(Cecilia
Rodrigo).
Echoes of Kindness
