Over the years I have given concerts with pieces from various periods , but
I always try to have a narrative thread in a program. I brood on what I want
to play, which combinations, which order.
To illustrate that, I give you four different programs.
1. To begin with, the Segovia-program that I have put on the CD Segoviana. Fragments can be heard on this site. The story here is the influence that Segovia had on the guitar as a solo concert instrument, by his transcriptions of music that was originally written for other instruments, as well as by his many requests to modern composers to write something for him.
SEGOVIANA, the music of Andrés Segovia
Andrés Segovia, ca. 1930
Granada - Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
Dolor (Prélude Basque) - Padre Donostia (1886-1956)
Sérénade - Gustave Samazeuilh (1877-1967)
Segovia - Albert Roussel (1869-1937)
Mazurka - Manuel M. Ponce (1882-1948)
'Folia de España' : theme, 9 variations and fugue - Manuel M. Ponce
intermission
Andantino from the Sonatine - Federico Moreno Torroba (1892-1982)
Nocturne - Federico Moreno Torroba
Estudio sin luz - Andrés Segovia (1893-1987)
Sonata Opus 77, 'Omaggio a Boccherini'
(allegro con spirito - andantino, quasi canzone - tempo di minuetto - vivo ed
energico)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
(Encore: Manuel M. Ponce - Estrellita)
2. I also have a Paganini-program, interesting because the general public knows him as a composer and virtuoso violinist, and few people know that he also played the guitar and used it as a basic instrument for his compositions. Paganini said: " If I am the master of the violin, then the guitar is my master." In this program I play a selection of the violin pieces that Paganini composed on the guitar for the violin.
Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840)
Sonata no.24
From 24 Capricci Opus 1 for solo violin: no. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
INTERMISSION
From 24 Capricci Opus 1 for solo violin: no.16, 20 & 21
Nel cor non più mi sento, thema, variazioni & finale
(Encore: Capriccio no. 11 & ghiribizzo La Primavera)
3. Then I have a special program about the historical development of guitar music through the ages:
On a 13-string guitar, with a so-called manche theorbe:
Johannes Hieronymus Kapsperger (± 1575-1651) - Toccata primo
Petro Paolo Melii (15??-16??) - Volta alla francese (1616)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - from Cellosuite IV, BWV 1010: Sarabande
& Prelude (arr. FB)
On a 6-string guitar:
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - Minuet (andante from string trio Hob. 11, arr. F.Tarréga)
Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840) - Capriccio nr. 11 from Opus 1 for violin solo (arr.FB)
Fréderic Chopin ((1810-1849) - Prelude nr. 4, opus 28 (arr. Tarréga)
Francisco Tarréga (1852-1909) - Prelude nr. 10
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909) - Granada
Manuel Ponce (1882-1948) - Mazurka
Miguel Llobet (1885-1938) - Canço del Lladre
Agustin Barrios Mangoré (1885-1944) - Julia Florida
4. Finally, an example of a real mixed program:
Francisco Tarréga (1852-1909) - Prelude nr.1
J.S. Bach (1685-1750) - Chaconne BWV 1004 (arrangement FB)
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) - Minuet (arrangement Francisco Tarréga)
Nicolo Paganini (1782-1840) - from the Capricci for violin solo, Opus 1:
no.1 andante, no.4 maestoso, no.11 andante - presto - andante (arrangementen
FB)
Miguel Llobet (1885-1938)
El Mestre
Canço del Lladre
Plany
El noi de la mare