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Piano- Gavin Robert
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piano- Gavin Roberts 
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Fábio Fernandes performs William Walton - Bagatelle n.3 (Alla Cubana).

Alla Cubana is part of a set of Five Bagatelles written by William Walton, around 1971, for Julian Bream and dedicated to composer Malcolm Arnold.
On these Bagatelles William Walton avoids the recurring Spanish influence of the guitar repertoire and retains his own language while deeply exploring the vast range of the guitar’s musical possibilities.
A few years later Walton orchestrated the Bagatelles into a suite, “Varii Capricci”.

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Guitar: José Ramirez Traditional 1A

Produced by Monteverde Records.

Copyright © Fábio Fernandes 2018

William Walton - Bagatelle n.3 (Alla Cubana)

Fábio Fernandes performs Isaac Albéniz - Sevilla (Sevillanas)

Sevilla is the 3rd movement of Isaac Albéniz's Suite Española No.1, Op. 47, originally written for solo piano in the early 1880's.
Albéniz is a Spanish Post-Romantic composer that explored deeply the Spanish folk music idiom. This suite is a perfect example of his nationalistic influences as each movement refers to a different region and to its traditional dance. 
Sevilla has as base the Sevillana dance, a lively dance in 3/4, and in the middle section we can hear resemblances to cante jondo (flamenco).
Albéniz never wrote for guitar but often used its idioms into piano writing, this lead his music to be widely arranged for guitar, being even, sometimes, better known on this version than on its original.

In this video I am playing an arrangement made by Manuel Barrueco with a few alterations of my own.

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Guitar: José Ramirez Traditional 1A

Produced by Monteverde - Audio Production.

Copyright © Fábio Fernandes 2018

Isaac Albéniz - Sevilla

Fábio Fernandes performs Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal after John Dowland

Britten’s Nocturnal is an often-underrated masterpiece that marked the composition for guitar of the 20th century. Through this work is expressed Britten’s appreciation of John Dowland, the themes of melancholy, sleep and death. These are all aspects that can be closely associated with the intimate nature of the guitar. As John Dowland did with the lute in the 17th century, Britten used the guitar to express the deepest feelings of melancholy. On this inverted set of theme and variations Britten explores the entire range, technical possibilities, colours and textures of the guitar in the richest form to create a huge build up that culminates on the long-desired theme, that consists of a straight transcription of Dowland’s song “Come Heavy Sleep”*.

* John Dowland, The First Book of Songs or Ayres of four Parts No.20.

"Come, heavy Sleep, the image of true Death,
And close up these my weary weeping eyes,
Whose spring of tears doth stop my vital breath,
And tears my heart with Sorrow’s sigh-swoll’n cries.
Come and possess my tired thought-worn soul,
That living dies, till thou on me be stole."

Isaac Albéniz - Sevilla

Fábio Fernandes

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