For this album, Leo Brouwer, at age 81, composed three new studies, Nouvelle étude I, II, and III, specifically dedicated to the performer Thibault Cauvin, continuing his lifelong series.
Composer's Artistic Vision
The three new studies by Leo Brouwer are a tribute to 20th-century French thinkers Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Jacques Derrida, whom he admires as "ideologues of form."
Composer's Artistic Vision
Leo Brouwer's Estudios Sencillos were originally intended to address particular technical and musical problems for guitar practice, not primarily as concert works.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in a Parisian studio with pop producer Jeff Delort, aiming for a dynamic, powerful, captivating, and incisive sound for Brouwer's masterpieces.
Composition History
The Estudios Sencillos were inspired by Leo Brouwer's clandestine student, Sharon Pryor, during a difficult period in New York in the late 1950s.
Composition History
Leo Brouwer composed the Nuevos Estudios Sencillos at the beginning of the new millennium, feeling like a 21st-century creator, and they include tributes to both legendary and unknown composers.
Composer Biography
Leo Brouwer, the composer, initiated the legendary Estudios Sencillos series almost 60 years ago, and is considered one of the most important composers in the history of the guitar.
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