Adela

Guitar and piano is a rare combination and some of the arrangements here do sound a little forced. Others, however, are both inventive and attractive. — BBC Music Magazine, May 2021, 3 out of 5 stars

Release Date: 5th Feb 2021
Catalogue No: 9029513743
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 55 minutes

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Dębicz: Recipe

Work length5:10

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

Joaquín Rodrigo, Johann Sebastian Bach: Aranjuez Concerto BWV 1056

Work length5:21

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

Rodrigo Amarante: Tuyo („Narcos” Theme)

Work length2:28

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

Gismonti: Agua e Vinho

Work length7:14

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Jakub Józef Orliński (counter-tenor), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

Dębicz: Pedro

Work length1:51

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

Ravel: Ravel

Work length5:17

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

Dębicz: Quarantine Song

Work length3:54

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Jakub Józef Orliński (counter-tenor), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

Scarlatti, D: Domingo

Work length3:44

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

Satie: Gnossienne No. 1

Work length5:39

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

Albéniz: Asturias (from Suite espanola, Op. 47)

Work length5:13

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

Rodrigo: Adela

Work length5:38

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Jakub Józef Orliński (counter-tenor), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

Dębicz: Fairytale

Work length3:55

Aleksander Dębicz (piano), Łukasz Kuropaczewski (guitar)

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“The album title ADELA comes from a song by Rodrigo which constitutes the emotional culmination of our duo’s programme. What counts is not the name, but the person we love and long for. Everyone certainly has such a person, and so we hope that each listener will find something close to his or her heart on our album.

The piano and classical guitar virtually never collaborate in music. However, after our first joint performance with Łukasz Kuropaczewski, we immediately realised that we could create intriguing music worlds together. We followed the same line of thinking in our choice of programme, which derives from both the piano and guitar repertoires, though the spirit of the South that informs most of that music is more typically associated with the guitar tradition. In my arrangements of classical works, I strove to represent the sonic qualities of both instruments, their unique expression, and cultural associations. I reworked Domenico Scarlatti’s famous “Sonata in D Minor (Toccata)” K. 141 so as to bring out its Spanish roots. Titled “Domingo” on our album, it features distinctive flamenco qualities and an improvised layer. The “Aranjuez Concerto BWV 1056” is, as its very name suggests, a fusion of the world’s most famous piece for guitar and orchestra, Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez”, with Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Keyboard Concerto in F Minor” BWV 1056. Themes from the second, slow movements of both concertos interlink here as in the film cross-cutting technique, and we swap roles, Łukasz leading the Bach theme while I take up Rodrigo’s.

Three of the works on this album have been enriched by the angelic voice of Jakub Józef Orliński. In these three, Egberto Gismonti’s guitar composition “Água e Vinho”, my own “Quarantine Song”, and even the famous “Adela” by Joaquin Rodrigo, the voice has been treated more as an instrument than a lyrical subject. “Quarantine Song” was composed during the COVID-19 quarantine in 2020 specially for Jakub Józef Orliński as its performer. “Pedro” was inspired by the films of Pedro Almodóvar

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May 2021

Guitar and piano is a rare combination and some of the arrangements here do sound a little forced. Others, however, are both inventive and attractive.

Adela

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