Respuesta: Stefano Grondona plays the Guitar Music of Llobet

Miguel Llobet was a supremely gifted performer whose playing impressed not only fel- low guitarists Segovia and Tárrega but also Albéniz, Fauré, Debussy and Ravel. This set brings together all... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 6th Aug 2007
Catalogue No: STR33770
Label: Stradivarius
Length: 84 minutes

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October 2007

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Llobet: Respuesta (Impromptu)

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
Recorded: 2006

Llobet: Variaciones sobre un tema de Sor

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
Recorded: 2006

Llobet: Mazurka

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
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Llobet: Estudio Capricho

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
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Llobet: Romanza

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
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Llobet: Estudio

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
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Llobet: Scherzo - Vals

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
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Llobet: Estilos Argentinos No. 1

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
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Llobet: Estilos Argentinos No. 2

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
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Llobet: Estilo Popular Argentino

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
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Estilo Popular Argentino No. 3

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Llobet: 5 Preludes

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
Recorded: 2006

5 Preludes: No. 1, Prelude

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5 Preludes: No. 2, Prelude in E Major

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5 Preludes: No. 3, Prelude in D Major

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5 Preludes: No. 4, Prelude in A Major

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5 Preludes: No. 5, Prelude. Original

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Rogelio del Villar: Danza Española (arr. M. Llobet Soles for guitar)

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
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Rogelio del Villar: Canciones leonesas

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
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Canciones leonesas: No. 1, Berceuse (Arr. M. Llobet Soles for Guitar)

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Federico Bufaletti: Mazurka de Severina (arr. M. Llobet Soles for guitar)

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
Recorded: 2006

Llobet: Clavelitos (arr. J. Valverde)

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
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Clavelitos (Arr. J. Valverde for Guitar)

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Llobet: Canciones populares catalanas

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Stefano Grondona (guitar)
Recorded: 2006

10 Canciónes populares catalanas: No. 1, El testament de Amelia

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: No. 2, Canço del Lladre

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: Le preco de Lleida

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: El Noi de la Mare

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: No. 6, Plany

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: No. 4, Lo Fill del Rei

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: No. 7, El mestre

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: No. 10, La Nit de Nadal

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: No. 3, La filadora

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: No. 9, La filla del marxant

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: No. 5, Lo Rossinyol

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: No. 8, L'hereu riera

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10 Canciónes populares catalanas: La pastoreta

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The present recording comprises everything Llobet, giant of the modern guitar, is currently known to have composed, beginning with Romanza (1896) and ending with Preludes from 1935. His entire output is unmistakably personal, exploring new directions in guitar playing and the sort of harmonies that would have puzzled any composer-cum-guitarist who came before him.

Particularly those compositions written when he was a major successful concert performer show unmatched creative vitality and their positive, enthusiastic character demonstrates that this otherwise saturnine man could also experience and express joy, winning the listener over with warmth and humour.

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Miguel Llobet was a supremely gifted performer whose playing impressed not only fel- low guitarists Segovia and Tárrega but also Albéniz, Fauré, Debussy and Ravel. This set brings together all of Llobet's compositions for solo guitar. Grondona plays an 1887 Torres and, for the Canciones catalanas, adopts gut treble strings and silver-wound silk basses.
The playing is exceptional. Apart from employing generous rubato and portamenti – integral to the correct interpretation of this repertoire – Grondona gently emphasises Llobet's adopting a certain fingering or register in order to exploit every resource of the guitar.
This is as obvious in 'Respuesta', the virtuoso title-track from the Seven Original Compositions, with its rapid tremolo and arpeggio effects, as it is in the veiled world of pianissimo harmonics found in many of the Catalan folksong arrangements (the introduction to 'La Preço de Lleida' being a perfect example). An outstanding release in every way.

October 2007

The playing is exceptional. Apart from employing generous rubato and portamenti - integral to the correct interpretation of this repertoire - Grondona gently emphasises Llobet's adopting a certain fingering or register in order to exploit every resource of the guitar. This is as obvious in "Respesta", the virtuoso title-track from the Seven Original Compositions, with its rapid tremolo and arpeggio effects, as it is in the veiled works of pianissimo harmonics found in many of the Catalan folksong arrangements... An outstanding release in every way.

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