les disques :
L'intégrale de Joaquín Turina,
CD HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 905246
Sevillana op 29. (7'16)
Fandanguillo op. 36 (5'11)
Ráfaga op.59 (2'52)
Sonata op.61 (9'41)
Homenaje a Tárrega op.69 (4'48)
Tres Danzas Andaluzas op.8 (4'46)
Cinco Danzas Gitanas op.55 (15'00)
Cliquez pour écouter un extrait du CD :
Sacromonte des Cinq Danses Gitanes op. 55, par Rafael Andia (guitare Charles Besnainou)
visitez un site consacré à Joaquin Turina par son petit fils Miguel Morán
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A estas alturas creo yo que conocen mi punto de vista acerca de las transcripciones de esta música para piano a la guitarra: cada guitarrista es libre de hacer lo que quiera mientras lo haga bien y tenga razones para ello o se las invente, pero creo que se trata de obras que tienen su sentido para el piano. Creo que al transcribirlas a la guitarra vuelven al ámbito de que salieron: Turina, Falla, Granados o Albéniz crean -cada uno a su manera- un lenguaje hispanoimpresionista que rezuma folclore por los cuatro costados y al volver a la guitarra me parece que pierde en cierta manera ese aspecto evocador como de exilio que aporta un piano o un cuarteto de cuerda. Pero no deja de ser mi punto de vista. GENDAI GUITAR
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AMAZON.COM January 11,2000 "
www.audaud.com/aud aud/JUL-AUG2000/CLASSICAL/clcds1JULY00.html - :
Flamenco influences there may be, but Turina conjures little of flamenco's fire and spontaneity. There is more to celebrate in Rafael Andias guitar playing throatily rough-toned through to poignantly lyrical - than in Turinas monolithic works for his instrument.
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| Fanfare MarchApril12000 345 Unlike many composers of guitar music, Turina didn't play the instrument. He was a pianist, and composed most of his music on the piano, even pieces that are better known in their orchestral form. Some of the guitar pieces are composed in a Gypsy idiom that might be called "flamenco style," that is, they use flamenco mannerisms. In its most obvious form, the music features recitativelike passages punctuated by violent rhythmic chords (think ofthe "Miller's Dance" from Falla's Three-Cornered Hat). This form supposedly came about because, when the dancers and/or singers wanted to take a rest the guitarist would improvise a melodious recitative. You can hear it in Sevillana and the final movement of the Sonata. You may even think you hear it elsewhere, since Turina's use of repetition and sequence sometimes suggests flamenco style. Much of your reaction to this music will depend on your susceptibility to the sweet sound of the guitar. If your pulse is quickened by violent strumming and modal melodies, this is certainly a collection worth investigating. The guitar is a most forgiving instrument that, in addition to its portability, has made it popular among amateur musicians. After a few weeks, you're playing resounding chords and simple tunes. It isn't hard to play the guitar "fairly well." It's when one tries to play it "very well" that it becomes difficult After a few weeks on the violin, on the other hand, you may still be scraping and squawking and having intonation problems even in Row. row. row your boat. Unfortunately, the profusion of fair-to-middlin' guitarists in pop music has led to a striking dumbing-down. Even if one has the technique of, say, a Chet Atkins, it is almost inevitable that guitar-based music will be less complicated and sophisticated than music composed at the piano . . . and most of these rock people aren't Chet Atkins. Why do jazz pianists seem to prefer pre-1960 pop music as a source? Because, as I heard one say, "You can't make somethin' outta' nothin'. " The point of this semirelevant diversion is that Tunna was a pianist and composed at the piano, an instrument that enables one to simply do more than the guitar does: It has greater range and offers the possibility of richer harmonic textures. The most interesting music on this CD is the Five Gypsy Dances, transcribed by the soloist and rendered with virtuosity. They were originally written for the piano and are mostly devoid of guitar mannerisms. Rafael Andia was probably seduced by the first of them, which does have a touch of the guitar in it. The others don't . . . not really. Yes, some Spanish music evokes the guitar: One thinks of Albéniz, Granados, and Falla, who wrote one guitar piece between them but whose music often suggests it and transcribes well for it (in Goyescas Granados actually asks for a guitar evocation at one point). Turina was younger, and matured as a composer while Andrés Segovia was restoring the instrument to respectability. He composed for the guitar and specifically for Segovia, but wrote piano music that usually sounds like piano music, period. So what I would call the best music on the CD isn't particularly guitarlike, though it's a tribute to Andia that many who haven't heard the originais may not agree. One small point about the otherwise fine annotations, which claim that everything on the CD except Ráfaga is dedicated to Segovia. Not true. Neither are the piano pieces-the Tango and the Gypsy Dances. As I suggested, those who cannot resist the sound of the guitar played by a master performer might well investigate this disc, but the Gypsy Dances are better on the piano, and so was Turina. James Miller |
Classical Guitar Magazine Turina was one of the first Spanish composers to collaborate with Segovia in the 1920s and his style, a reconciliation of Spanish folk elements with his academic training, must have pleased the maestro, who shrank from expressing the rougher elements of flamenco. This recording brings together all five of the original solo-guitar works, dedicated to Segovia, together with arrangements of items from collections of piano music. The observation that Spanish composers are born with the sound of the guitar in their cars and write piano music that seems to have been adapted from a guitar "original" has become a common place, but it is nevertheless true - to a degree. Turina had Segovia's guidance regarding the workings of the guitar, reflected in his repeated use of certain elements that relate to the finger board, but the greater demands of Sacromonte in particular show the greater freedom he felt when writing for the piano; however, as Andia demonstrates, the music remains guitaristic albeit at a higher level of technical requirement.
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LES CAHIERS DE LA GUITARE n¡75 page 39; 3¡ trimestre 2000 |
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GUITARE DIFFUSION |
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