Description
Guitar Concerto N.1 Ricercare de Cámara VI by Juan Trigos
for guitar and chamber orchestra
Duration: 14′
Year: 1999
World Premiere: 1999
Instrumentation: 11*10 – 1110 – 3 perc – pf – str (max 6.6.4.4.2)
PERUSAL SCORE
AUDIO SAMPLE
Guitar: Dieter Hennings. New Music Concerts Ensemble of Toronto (Canada). Conductor. Juan Trigos.
PROGRAM NOTES
Guitar Concerto N.1 Ricercare de Cámara VI
for guitar and chamber orchestra
Juan Trigos was student and assistant of Italian composer Franco Donatoni whose music defies the stereotype often associated with that school of composition. Trigos is a solid craftsman who assimilated and interiorized the technical ideas of the Italian master, and was able to take them as a point of departure for the development of a very personal and identifiable musical language. In his Ricercari series, Trigos transcends the modernist aesthetic of his teacher by introducing cultural changed elements that work as points of reference for the listener. In the case of Ricercare VI for guitar and chamber orchestra, these elements are drawn out of the flamenco tradition (palmas, rasgueados, microtonal inflections and percussion) but avoid the typical Spanish guitar cliché by presenting them on an abstract and structural level rather than as coloristic or local quotations. The piece is dedicated to the Mexican guitarist Pablo Gómez.
Alejandro Madrid
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