Gerhard & Mompou: Complete Music for Solo Guitar

Ramelli, Marco

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The contrasting voices of two Catalan composers, friends in life, now joined together in recording for the first time. Federico Mompou was the shy post-Romantic, Roberto Gerhard the gregarious Modernist. Quite unalike in personality, in artistic aims and language, the two nonetheless held each other in high esteem. Like so many other composers, Mompou began to write guitar music having met and been inspired by Andres Segovia. This friendship principally yielded the six-movement Suite Compostelana. A Baroque construction enclosing a flowing, arpeggiated Prelude, a crystalline Chorale, a searching Recitative and a deftly embroidered Cancion, the Suite is entirely original in its themes with the exception of the joyful stamp of the finale which is based on the Muiñeira de Lugo, a typical Galician dance usually played on a form of bagpipe known as a gaita.

Works:

• Gerhard: Fantasia
• Gerhard: For Whom the Bell Tolls
• Mompou: Cancion i danza No. 10
• Mompou: La plume de perdreau
• Mompou: Suite Compostelana
• Pujol, E: El Cant dels Ocels

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Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

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