Paris est une solitude peuplée

Featuring

Judicaël Perroy
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Alexander Scriabin
Manuel Ponce
Tōru Takemitsu
Fernando Sor

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Composer Biography

Alexander Scriabin, a legendary Russian composer, was a prodigious pianist who composed complex and intense music, earning him a prestigious position among great pianist composers.

Composition History

Heitor Villa Lobos's "Suite popular brasileira" reflects the influence of Brazilian urban music, strengthened by his own experience as a guitarist and musician in popular ensembles.

Composition History

Fernando Sor's "Fantaisie Elégiaque, op. 59," composed around 1835 in Paris, is an unrestrained lament for the death of Madame Charlotte Beslay, his student and a known figure in Parisian cultured circles.

Composition History

Manuel María Ponce's "Sonata III" was composed in 1927 during his studies in Paris and marks a turning point in his career, showing a more modernist language.

Composition History

Alexander Scriabin's "Prelude from the Prelude and Nocturne, op. 9" comes from a period when he focused on developing his left hand due to a right-hand injury in 1891.

Compositional Technique

Toru Takemitsu's "Equinox" requires the guitar to be tuned with its second and sixth strings lowered by a semitone, altering its harmonic resonance and contributing to the piece's eerie mood.

Composition History

The version of Heitor Villa Lobos's "Suite popular brasileira" on this album is his 1948 reworking of the original material, which was first composed between 1908 and 1912.