a select discography of recordings of guitar sonatas and chamber music including guitar by Ferdinand Rebay

I have not covered all of the recordings of Rebay's solo guitar sonatas and chamber music in this list but it is a fairly thorough list in terms of trying to cover the recordings of the seven solo guitar sonatas and chamber music including the guitar. Many of the releases cluster around Brilliant Classics and Naxos, which won't surprise anyone who has kept tabs on recordings of Rebay's music.  So, here we go.

Ariel Elijovich performing Angelo Gilardino's Sonata No. 2 "Hivern Florit"

This is a fun take on one of my favorite guitar sonatas.  "Hivern florit" roughly translates in English as "winter in bloom", if memory serves.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frYtsxiRJ6s

I've been wanting to blog through and analyze Gilardino's guitar sonatas for years but the last few years, even if I set aside the era of covid 19, have not been happy years for me and I only have so much I can do as a mere mortal.  However, if I have not managed to blog about Gilardino's sonatas that doesn't mean I'm giving up on the idea of getting to that project. 

But look how long it's been taking me to blog about Matiegka's sonatas!  I trust regular and long-time readers know that when I commit to a project I want to do the best job I can and not scrimp on details.  That might be a vice, actually. :)  

But I love this sonata and want to share another performance of it for folks who read the blog.  

I'm debating whether to have a spoilery or non-spoilery post about the Venture Bros movie, on a completely different topic. 

Karl Goepfert- Sonata for Bassoon and Guitar

It's been a while since I've put up a post about a niche work of chamber music including the guitar. Guitar and bassoon is a worthy combination that I hadn't gotten around to, I think, before this post.

So here we go.

Carl Andreas Göepfert (1768~1818) who wrote a Sonata for Bassoon and Guitar you can hear over here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zlVe_d1on0

also here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whqyid_t6J0

the Ferrara Duo (Annina Holland-Moritz and Stefan Conradi) have recoreded a commercially available version of this piece through Antes Edition

you can find the score at IMSLP but I gotta warn you it's parts only.  But it's clear enough you can work out a fair bit reading one part at a time listening to the whole piece. 

https://imslp.org/wiki/Sonata_for_Bassoon_and_Guitar%2C_Op.13_(G%C3%B6pfert%2C_Carl_Andreas)

Stevie Wonder: Too High

 because the thing to do at the blog tonight is to wrap up the handful of posts with a track from Innervisions, released 50 years ago today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvtYEdYjkJM

whoever and whatever cecassionists are, they sure are legalistic, eh?

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it's the 50th anniversary of the release of Stevie Wonder's album Innervisions a linkathon of past writings in lieu of having been able to put together something more fitting for this anniversary

Part of me had hoped to have had something actually put together for this day by way of blogging, but I don't.  Such is life.  But ... I can post links of stuff I've written in the past, a great blog post by Ethan Hein, and share that by way of the back and forth we've had about "Living for the City" which you can see after the break.

Ourkouzounov - Paraphrases d’après un prélude de Rachmaninov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRU3iHW_oE0

Julie Roys had a two-part podcast discussion on the megachurch monopolies on worship music, a brief thought about the non-existence of Mars Hill Church musical culture in that discussion here in 2023

Earlier this year Julie Roys had a two-part podcast conversation on megachurches monopolizing the contemporary Christian music landscape. Not being one to listen to podcasts most of the time I was grateful for the transcripts provided at the following links earlier this year

https://julieroys.com/podcast/the-megachurch-worship-monopoly/
https://julieroys.com/podcast/the-megachurch-worship-monopoly-part-ii/

Conspicuous by absence was the late Mars Hill Church.  Although the church had some influence on the local Puget Sound music scene it is as though the megachurch functionally didn't happen in terms of the city's musical history, although given the restrictions during the covid-19 era a lot of musical life withered on the vine in terms of live music. 

Norman Lebrecht's lament that London is no longer a musical capital

https://thecritic.co.uk/issues/august-september-2023/requiem-for-londons-music/

 

It is a sad truth, widely acknowledged, that London is no longer a music capital. World orchestras that passed through once or twice a year no longer stop over. Headline artists save their signature concerts for Paris and Berlin. New music has dried up. There hasn’t been a premiere of world consequence since before Covid. London is falling off the music map.

 

Various reasons and excuses are attached to this decline, among them Brexit, Covid, the Ukraine war, economic woes and a government that is plundering funds from the capital and spreading it around the regions, going out of its way to penalise London orchestras while smiling upon pointless little minority start-ups that are barely above kindergarten level.

 

These are all contributory causes but the cumulation of factors does not begin to describe the loss of national purpose and fundamental incompetence that has relegated music in London to an all-time low. The economy has nothing to do with it.

 

London achieved its musical status in the 1930s, during the Great Depression, adding two new symphony orchestras and drawing a surprised endorsement from Arturo Toscanini that they ranked among the best. Today, star maestros shun London and one of its symphony orchestras came within a matter of days of being abolished.

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