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À L'ESPAGNOL (musicaphon M56963) à 15 Euro

On his debut CD “À l’Espagnol,” Stefan Koim presents works from the Baroque era to modern times. The unifying elements of this musical journey through the guitar repertoire are the origins, influences, and traditions of Spanish music. In any case this adaption may be developed in diffferent forms. In the case of the Chaconne from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Second Partita for Violin, BWV 1004, the relationship to Spain is to be understood in terms of form: the chaconne was originally a folk dance, already verifiable in Spain around 1600. Elements of folk music are important aspects of the music the Spanish composers Fernando Sor, Manuel de Falla and Joaquín Rodrigo wrote. And the French composer Tristan Murail imported performing skills from the Spanish Flamenco into his work Tellur to accomplish his imagined sounds. It’s remarkable that the reception of Spanish elements took place either via France or in direct altercation with influences of French music resp. music by French composers: e.g. Bach took as a basis for his composition a French model of the Ciaccona, Sor stayed in Paris, the centre of French musical life during his most productive years regarding guitar music. De Falla dedicated his work to the French composer Claude Debussy whom he admired very much and Rodrigo as well as Murail developed their personal styles in altercation with actual tendencies in French musical life. With this mix of Spanish and French elements the composers assembled here point to the close connection between the different music styles in Europe negotiating national borders.

                                                                          À l’Espagnol

                                Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
                         1     aus der Partita für Violine BWV 1004: Ciaccona

                                Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
                         2     Fantasia Nr. 7, Opus 30

                                Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
                         3     Homenaje à Debussy

                                 Joaquín Rodrigo (1901-1999)
                         4 Invocation et Danse (Hommage à Manuel de Falla)

                                 Tristan Murail (*1947)
                         5      Tellur

                                 Gesamtzeit · total

12:41

12:43

3:09

7:41

10:06

46:23

Stefan Koim
Gitarre · Guitar
Aufgenommen · recorded: 15.-17. Juli 2013, Tonstudio der Universität Mozarteum Salzburg
Aufnahmeleitung · recording supervision: Sascha Tekale
Editing, Texte: Stefan Koim
Mastering: Peter Schmidt
Photos: Jesse L. Weiner
Instrument: Konzertgitarre von Stephan Connor (2010)
Translation: Howard Weiner
Executive Producer: Rainer Kahleyss
© und P 2014 Klassik Center, Kassel

ROYAL (musicaphon M56975) à 15 Euro

"ROYAL..., noble sound in courtly context," this, in a few short words, is how one could describe the music of the most famous Renaissance lutenist John Dowland, which is the main focus of this CD by Stefan Koim. On the one hand, compositions by Dowland are presented, compositions that represent an impressive fusion of heart, spirit, and intellect from the quill of a cosmopolitan musician of the sixteenth century. On the other hand, we have two important modern compositins by Benjamin Britten and Hans Werner Henze, who refer to Dowland and the lute music of the Elisabethan era in their works. This is explicit in Britten's Nocturnal, a a variation work on John Dowland's air Come heavy sleepe, whose original form untypically appears only at the very end of the composition. The reference is rather implicit in Hans Werner Henze, who found the inspiration for his cycle Royal Winter Music, which was composed in London, in the works of the English poet, playwright, and Dowland contemporary William Shakespeare. It is therefore inconceivable that he did not have Dowland's lute music in his ear while composing his work for solo guitar. And thus the compositions compiled on this CD are intended above all to call attention to two things: to the still fascinating sound of an era that is frequently called the "Golden Age" of English history, and also to the still inspiring potential, after 400 years, of this music for that of the modern age.

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John Dowland (1563-1626)
Fantasia DP 73
Fantasia DP 71
Fantasia 1a

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Nocturnal after John Dowland for Guitar Op. 70

John Dowland
Sir John Langton's Pavan
Sir John Smith, His Almain
The Most High and Mighty Christianus the Fourth
King of Denmark, His Galliard

Hans Werner Henze (1926-2012)
Royal Winter Music:
Second Sonata on Shakespearean characters
Sir Andrew Aguecheeck
Bottom's Dream
Mad Lady Macbeth

Gesamtzeit · total

3:00
5:32
4:01

16:39

5:08
2:16

2:40

5:42
5:19
8:48

59:25

Stefan Koim
Gitarre · Guitar
Aufgenommen · recorded: 03.-04.03.2013, 13.-15.03.2013, New Art Center, Newton, MA USA
Aufnahmeleitung · recording supervision: Frank Wallace
Editing, Texte: Stefan Koim, Frank Wallace
Mastering: Michael Wacht
Photos: Jesse L. Weiner
Instrument: Konzertgitarre von Stephan Connor (2010)
Cover: Angela Pelivan
Executive Producer: Rainer Kahleyss
© und P 2014 Klassik Center, Kassel