Judicaël Perroy, the guitarist on this album, began playing guitar at age 7 and won the prestigious GFA (Guitar Foundation of America) competition in 1997, launching his international career.
Composition History
Alexandre Tansman's Variations on a Scriabin Theme uses a guitar version of Scriabin's Prelude opus 16 no. 4, arranged by Andrés Segovia, as its basis.
Interpretation
The album features arrangements of Russian piano works for guitar, a repertoire not trivial for a guitarist, requiring determination to adapt pieces originally for keyboard to six strings.
Composition History
Tchaikovsky's 'June' (Barcarolle) is part of his Les saisons opus 37a, a set of twelve pieces published monthly in a Saint-Petersburg music magazine, each illustrating a specific month.
Compositional Technique
Dušan Bogdanović's Sonata No. 2 for guitar, a contemporary work, employs a highly chromatic harmonic language, varying between modal, polymodal, atonal, and neo-romantic styles, with rhythms derived from Balkan folklore.
Performer Biography
Judicaël Perroy's choice to arrange Russian piano repertoire for guitar was inspired by two intense piano recitals he attended as a teenager, including one by Sviatoslav Richter.
Composer Biography
Alexandre Tansman, a Polish composer, regularly submitted his guitar manuscripts to the virtuoso Andrés Segovia, who would adapt them, perform them, record them, and have them published.
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