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Thursday 6th August 2020
Gentle Guitar
Artistes include:
Francisco Correa ♦ David Massey ♦ Jon Gjyalci ♦ Roland Dyens ♦ Gary Ryan ♦ Adam del Monte ♦ Irene Gomez ♦ John Williams ♦ Julian Bream ♦ Andrés Segovia ♦ D&A Duo: Dimitris Kourzakis & Angelos Botsis ♦ Manuel Barrueco
Starts: when you are ready
latecomers will be admitted at your personal discretion
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Gentle Guitar
Programme
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (1876-1946)
La vida breve This short life (1904-05)
performed by Francisco Correa and David Massey
Roland Dyens (1955-2016)
Libra Sonatine
1 India
2 Largo
3 Fuoco
performed by Jon Gjyalci
'Django' Jean Reinhardt (1910-1953)
arr Roland Dyens
Nuages Clouds (1940)
performed by Roland Dyens
Gary Ryan (b1969)
Hot Club Français (2014)
Benga Beat (2011)
performed by Gary Ryan
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921-1992)
from Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (1965-1970)
Verano Porteño (1965) Summer in a Port Town (ie, Bs As)
performed by Gary Ryan
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (1860-1909)
Suite Española No 1 Op 47 (1882-89)
1 Granada
performed by Adam del Monte
2 Cataluña
arr Manuel Barrueco (b1952, Cuba)
performed by Irene Gomez
3 Sevilla
performed by John Williams
4 Cádiz
performed by Julian Bream
5 Asturias
performed by Andrés Segovia
6 Aragón
performed by D&A Duo
Dimitris Kourzakis & Angelos Botsis
7 Castilla
performed by John Williams & Julian Bream
8 Cuba
performed by Manuel Barrueco
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This is Gentle Guitar, a concert for a Gentleman's 80th Birthday
Congratulations to guitar fan and LCAS Trustee Richard Miller
This week I am borrowing a lunchtime concert programme from guitarist Jon Gjyalci (pictured), one he played two summers ago, in London's St Martin-in-the-Fields, on August 3rd, 2018.
As ever, I will take a couple of liberties, beginning with the first item. We open with a duo, Francisco Correa and David Massey, performing Manuel de Falla's La vida breve:
Congratulations to guitar fan and LCAS Trustee Richard Miller
This week I am borrowing a lunchtime concert programme from guitarist Jon Gjyalci (pictured), one he played two summers ago, in London's St Martin-in-the-Fields, on August 3rd, 2018.
As ever, I will take a couple of liberties, beginning with the first item. We open with a duo, Francisco Correa and David Massey, performing Manuel de Falla's La vida breve:
Manuel de Falla y Matheu (1876-1946)
La vida breve This short life (1904-05)
performed by Francisco Correa and David Massey (Duo Correa Massey)
La vida breve This short life (1904-05)
performed by Francisco Correa and David Massey (Duo Correa Massey)
Next comes work written by one of Tunisia's greatest exports. Roland Dyens lived most of his life in Paris where he was guitar professor at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique. Years earlier he had been taught in the same institution by previous postholder and Spanish guitar supremo, Alberto Ponce.
from his wikipedia entry: "As a performer, Dyens was known for improvisation. Sometimes he opened his concerts with an improvised piece, and he might improvise the program itself, without planning or announcing beforehand what he would be playing. He said a journalist once told him he had the hands of a classical musician but the mind of a jazz musician. He played Bach suites and he played with jazz musicians at the Arvika Festival in Sweden. A heavy metal band did a version of the third movement of his Libra Sonatine.
Dyens released several volumes of arrangements that included not only the classical music of Fernando Sor but also the Brazilian music of Villa-Lobos, jazz standards by Thelonious Monk, the French pop of Edith Piaf, and the Gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt."
We probably shouldn't covet each other's performing spaces, but just take a look at Bolton's pride and joy in this next recording from the Victoria Hall.
We are going to hear Jon Gjylaci. He is a guitar tutor for both the Royal Northern College of Music and the Oxfordshire County Music Service. Jon is playing Libra Sonatine by Roland Dyens:
from his wikipedia entry: "As a performer, Dyens was known for improvisation. Sometimes he opened his concerts with an improvised piece, and he might improvise the program itself, without planning or announcing beforehand what he would be playing. He said a journalist once told him he had the hands of a classical musician but the mind of a jazz musician. He played Bach suites and he played with jazz musicians at the Arvika Festival in Sweden. A heavy metal band did a version of the third movement of his Libra Sonatine.
Dyens released several volumes of arrangements that included not only the classical music of Fernando Sor but also the Brazilian music of Villa-Lobos, jazz standards by Thelonious Monk, the French pop of Edith Piaf, and the Gypsy jazz of Django Reinhardt."
We probably shouldn't covet each other's performing spaces, but just take a look at Bolton's pride and joy in this next recording from the Victoria Hall.
We are going to hear Jon Gjylaci. He is a guitar tutor for both the Royal Northern College of Music and the Oxfordshire County Music Service. Jon is playing Libra Sonatine by Roland Dyens:
Roland Dyens (1955-2016)
Libra Sonatine
1 India ♦ 2 Largo ♦ 3 Fuoco
performed by Jon Gjyalci in Bolton's Victoria Hall
Libra Sonatine
1 India ♦ 2 Largo ♦ 3 Fuoco
performed by Jon Gjyalci in Bolton's Victoria Hall
Jazz standard, 'mainstay of the gypsy-swing repertoire', the ever popular Nuages comes next. The twist here is that the arranger and performer is none other than Roland Dyens, just a few weeks before his untimely death.
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'Django' Jean Reinhardt (1910-1953) arr Roland Dyens (1955-2016) Nuages Clouds (1940) performed by Roland Dyens at the Guitar Salon International retail showroom in Santa Monica, California. Roland plays a 1947 Bouchet instrument, the second Robert Bouchet made, and the first he ever sold. |
In more normal times Gary Ryan has an extensive concert schedule alongside his teaching at London's Royal College of Music where he is Professor of Guitar. His Hot Club Français is a solo classical guitar piece in a jazz style, inspired by the music of Django Reinhardt and Stéphane Grappelli. |
Gary Ryan (b1969)
Hot Club Français (2014) performed by Gary Ryan in his closing concert for the 2014, Inaugural, Sandwich Guitar Festival |
I hope you are enjoying Gary Ryan's music as much as I did on first hearing.
Here's another: "Benga Beat is a ground-breaking work for solo guitar. An exciting and entertaining show-piece with an African flavour which uses extended classical guitar techniques and styles that captivates audiences." Will you too be captivated? |
Gary Ryan
Benga Beat (2011) performed by Gary Ryan at the Apex, Bury St Edmunds, at which time he had not committed the piece to paper! Gary plays on a Stephen Hill Guitar. |
We have heard several of the tango works of Argentinian composer Piazzolla over the years. Verano Porteño, however, will be new to many of us. |
Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla (1921-1992)
from Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires (1965-1970) Verano Porteño (1965) Summer in a Port Town (ie, Bs As) performed by Gary Ryan |
Jon Gjyalci opened his concert with Asturias, the 5th movement of Suite Espanola No 1 by Albeniz.
We have a little more time so I have sought out recordings of each of the eight movements, and placed them here at the end of the concert so that you can choose whether to listen to them all at once, pick out favourites, or the less well-known. I have left the timings beside each title. They are all around 4 to 7 minutes.
So, in any sequence of your choice, here is the First Spanish Suite by Albéniz, played by a variety of artistes:
We have a little more time so I have sought out recordings of each of the eight movements, and placed them here at the end of the concert so that you can choose whether to listen to them all at once, pick out favourites, or the less well-known. I have left the timings beside each title. They are all around 4 to 7 minutes.
So, in any sequence of your choice, here is the First Spanish Suite by Albéniz, played by a variety of artistes:
Isaac Manuel Francisco Albéniz y Pascual (1860-1909)
Suite Española No 1 Op 47 (1882-89)
Suite Española No 1 Op 47 (1882-89)
1 Granada (5m15)
performed by Adam del Monte |
2 Cataluña (5m40)
arr Manuel Barrueco (b1952, Cuba) performed by Irene Gomez |
3 Sevilla (4m40)
performed by John Williams |
4 Cádiz (4m10)
performed by Julian Bream |
5 Asturias (7m00)
performed by Andrés Segovia |
6 Aragón (5m00)
performed by D&A Duo Dimitris Kourzakis & Angelos Botsis |
7 Castilla (3m40)
performed by John Williams & Julian Bream |
8 Cuba (4m05)
performed by Manuel Barrueco |
Presenter: Peter Steadman
Assisted by: Jane Forrester & Liz Barnes
Assisted by: Jane Forrester & Liz Barnes
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Did we make it for MENCAP ?
Of course we made it. I believed all along there was £5,000 out there among Mollie's friends and the friends of these concerts.
When I looked on Wednesday afternoon we had reached £5,035. Adding Gift Aid will take us a long way past the target.
A very big thank you (see below) to everyone who took part. I'm told there are quite a lot of 'anonymous' donations, so I'm guessing that accounts for many of you, our generous, and modest, audience.
Below is a very personal thank you to Mollie, from Harry, at MENCAP.
When I looked on Wednesday afternoon we had reached £5,035. Adding Gift Aid will take us a long way past the target.
A very big thank you (see below) to everyone who took part. I'm told there are quite a lot of 'anonymous' donations, so I'm guessing that accounts for many of you, our generous, and modest, audience.
Below is a very personal thank you to Mollie, from Harry, at MENCAP.
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