We interrupt our admittedly slow-going long-form analytical series on Matiegka's guitar sonatas to feature Luiz Mantovani's late 2022 work on Ferdinand Rebay's Guitar Second Sonata in E major for guitar. This is the one that, as yet, has no commercially available recording and is the last one needed before all seven of Rebay's solo guitar sonatas will have finally been recorded. If you read Mantovani's fun dissertation on Rebay's contribution to guitar chamber music this work builds on that and focuses on the seven sonatas Rebay wrote for solo guitar with particular focus on, well, it's in the title.
As of posting I'm only about a third of the way into this but I've read enough that it's a must post notice here at Wenatchee The Hatchet. After all, longtime readers know that I have touted Rebay's music for guitar somewhat steadily over the last decade.
Matiegka's Op. 17 awaits analysis but the score is substantially bigger in terms of page count than Op. 16 and will take some time to get to. IRL stuff has not always been conducive to me writing as much as I would have otherwise liked the last few years and in a way 2023 is not an exception. For folks into classical guitar and musical stuff I hope the extravagant rests are punctuated by substantial writing but readers' mileage may vary. Anyway, considering how distracting IRL has been the last year I only discovered the Mantovani work this week and am making sure to post about it now that I know of it.
