Duarte - Works for Solo Guitar
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 96658
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Instrumental
Release Date: 2nd February 2024
Contents
Works
Danza eccentrica, op.138Fantasia and Fugue on Torre Bermeja, op.30
Partita, op.59
Prelude en arpeges, op.62
Songs without Words (3) for Carlos Andres, op.45
Valse en rondeau, op.128
Valse lyrique, op.137
Variations on a Theme of Stepan Rak, op.100
Variations on an Italian Folk Song, op.139
Artists
Flavio Nati (guitar)Works
Danza eccentrica, op.138Fantasia and Fugue on Torre Bermeja, op.30
Partita, op.59
Prelude en arpeges, op.62
Songs without Words (3) for Carlos Andres, op.45
Valse en rondeau, op.128
Valse lyrique, op.137
Variations on a Theme of Stepan Rak, op.100
Variations on an Italian Folk Song, op.139
Artists
Flavio Nati (guitar)About
Valse lyrique (2000) is one of the three short dances Duarte wrote late in his career. The second theme, clearly derived from the first, includes some hemiolas as well as combined harmonics and natural notes. The central section features the melody in the bass. Valse en rondeau was written in 1997 for the American guitarist David Starobin. Duarte stated: “I decided to make reference to my origin as a jazz musician and to my interest in early music (the Rondeau form) and to exercise my unshakeable belief in melody.”
The origin of the Variations on a Theme of Štěpán Rak, op.100, is unique. In 1984 Rak was staying with Duarte when Vladimir Mikulka performed a lunchtime concert in London. At the end of the concert Mikulka announced that he was going to perform an unusual encore – a theme, but without variations that had yet to be written. Afterwards he announced that Rak, Koshkin and Duarte should exchange themes with each other to create six new variation works, and he presented Duarte with Rak’s theme on a piece of manuscript paper.
Andrés Segovia, a supreme Anglophile, married his third wife in Gibraltar (“under the British flag, on Spanish soil”), and their son was born in London. Duarte’s 3 Songs without Words for Carlos Andrés were a present to the happy couple. Danza eccentrica (2000) was dedicated to the Italian guitarist Domenico Lafasciano with the note, “Here is your dance. It may not be what you expected, but it’s what I’ve written – not another ‘cloned’ rumba, tango, waltz or whatever, but something with more individual character.” The unexpected aspects include dissonant harmonies, bass notes which move in 3/4 against the treble in 6/8 and sections more reminiscent of a hurdy-gurdy.
The Italian guitarist Angelo Gilardino wrote to Duarte about his Fantasia and Fugue on Torre Bermeja, op.30: “…the melodic and rhythmic feeling is of the sort to easily produce the fascination of the public”. The Torre Bermeja in question is the piano piece by Isaac Albéniz, op.92 no.12. Although it carries Op.62 (1974) on its cover, the little Prélude en arpèges was written in 1954/5 and intended as the first movement of a Harp Suite, op.18, that was never completed.
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