Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Paolo Ugoletti "Fantasia and Passacaglia" for guitar, performed by Esteban Colucci

Sticking with the motif of the passacaglia, here's a fantasia and passacaglia by Paolo Ugoletti

Atanas Ourkouzounov: Passacaglia (2023)

Petrunino Horo performed by Ourkouzounov(s)

There are various reasons I've loved following the work of Atanas Ourkouzounov and one is that he welds Bulgarian folk traditions into his music.  He and Mie are also masters of extended techniques for guitar and flute respectively that are not avant garde in the "high modernist" sense but are, like I just said, anchored in folk and dance elements.  

Here's a fun traditional Bulgarian song performed on flute, gadulka, guitar and contrabass.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AhDziUZf9c

Mie Ourkouzounov: flute Yordan Markov: gadulka Atanas Ourkouzounov:guitar Yoji Sato:contrabass