SKU: M7.GHE-904
ISBN 9783890449043. English.
In contrast to Llobet´s output of just 14 original works, his transcriptions for guitar number 118, a considerable quantity of an extremely high standard. These were a huge influence on the two generations of guitarists following Llobet some of whom mercilessly and anonymously plundered and disfigured them for their own use! Being also an accomplished pianist, Llobet was in a better position than any other of his contemporaries to transcribe the German Romantic Masters, as well as the piano music of Albéniz and Granados, among others. Transcribed by Llobet mainly during his formative years these transcriptions are masterpieces which transcend their original setting. In his early career, Segovia played many transcriptions of Llobet, eg Bach's Prélude in Dm, Sarabande, Bourrée, Gavotte. This volume is highly recommended.
SKU: BO.B.3946
ISBN 979-0-3503-3968-4. 9 x 12 inches.
The restrictive use of tonalities has prevented the guitar from accessing the development of the musings of the morphological and formal resources that, since the classical period, has developed instrumental music. The freedom of modulation, thematic transformation or the ability to assume broad development structures are some of the procedures that, historically have been limited by the alleged inability of the guitar to use the full range of tonalities. With these 24 romantic fantasies, this historical prejudice is broken and the guitar is offered the possibility of approaching a wide range of compositional skills and expressive proposals that, until now, had belonged exclusively to the world of piano or chamber music.
SKU: BO.B.3945
ISBN 979-0-3503-3967-7. 9 x 12 inches.
The restrictive use of tonalities has prevented the guitar access to the development of many of the morphological and formal resources that, from the classical period, has developed instrumental music. Freedom of modulation, thematic transformation or the ability to assume broad structures of development are some of the procedures that, historically, have been limited by the presumed inability of the guitar to use the full range of tonalities. With these 24 Romantic Fantasies this historical prejudice is broken and the guitar is offered the possibility of addressing a wide range of compositional skills and expressive proposals that until now had belonged exclusively to the world of piano or chamber music.
SKU: HL.49010946
ISBN 9790540010034. 9.0x12.0x0.13 inches.
J. Torrent (born 1953) is a leading Spanish guitar virtuoso. His own compositions for guitar are delightfully tonal, combining contemporary playing technique and rarely used clefs with a basically romantic approach.
SKU: HL.49019283
ISBN 9790001179652. 9.0x12.0x0.061 inches.
Nocturnes have a long tradition - from the notturni by Mozart and Haydn via the nocturnes of the Romantic era to Chopin who elevated the genre to fascinating character piece: He created ambivalently shining gems in an unreal world of human nature which were as close to the extremely sublime as to a demonic abyss. Enjott Schneider's '3 Nocturnes', the core of each of which is characterized by a Latin motto, stand in this tradition. Cicero's 'Somnus est imago mortus' sees sleep as a resemblance of death. 'Die Zeit eilt weg, die Liebe aber bleibt' [Time passes but love remains] explores the ambivalence between that what is hurrying and that what stays eternally. Ovid's 'Der Tropfen hohlt den Stein nicht durch Kraft, sondern durch stetes Fallen' [The drop hollows the stone, not by force but by constant dripping] has its counterpart in a minimalist motif which has a lasting influence on the listener through its constant sounding.
