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12 Sardanes
Piano
RUERA, Josep MariaReg.: B.3492
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- Review: MASÓ, Jordi
- Ensemble: Solo.
- Genres: Classical / contemporary: Arrangements and Transcripts; Solos.
Folk music / traditional: Sardanas.
- Language of the comment: Català/English/Castellano
- Product format: Partitura
- Difficulty level: Intermediate
- Period: 2nd half S. XX - XXI
- Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
- Collection: Siglo XXI
- No. of pages: 80
- Measure: 31,00 x 23,00 cm
- Lenght: 63'
- ISBN: 978-84-8020-850-5
- ISMN: 979-0-3503-0681-5
- Available in digital: No
- Available for rent: No
The catalogue of Josep Mª Ruera's work, largely devoted to music for cobla, presents a total of fifty-six sardanas. This edition brings together a selection of these sardanas - together with the Glossa de l'antic Ball de les Donzelles de Granollers - in the versions that the composer himself wrote for piano. Except for Tocs de festa and La verge catalana, the works collected in this volume were not originally intended to be performed on the piano, nor did the composer express any intention of publishing them in this version: the piano reduction probably served Ruera only as an outline for the subsequent instrumentation. Nevertheless, these are very "pianistic" versions, very well written for the instrument, and rarely fall into the characteristic clutter that so many orchestral reductions incur. Only in some passages of the more complex sardanas (as in the Tríptic laietà) does the composer push the pianist to the limits of his instrument's possibilities. The manuscripts also give very precise indications on the use of the pedal, from which it can be deduced that Ruera wrote the piano versions to be played (or, at least, playable).
A musician with a solid training, Ruera wanted to follow the example of composers like Garreta, Toldrà and Morera and write quality sardanas. Thanks to these piano versions, the aficionado will be able to discover the most characteristic elements of the composer's music: his melodic facility, the extraordinary harmonic richness, the density and contrapuntal wisdom of some fragments, and the rhythmic sophistication: Ruera always brought original and imaginative rhythmic solutions to his sardanas (he rarely resorted to the distinctive sardana rhythm of "crotchet-two quavers").
Jordi Masó
November 2007
Tocs de festa (4'03")
Empúries la grega (4'27")
Riells de Fai (4'13")
La verge catalana (4'53")
Esplai (4'02")
Glossa de l'àntic ball de les donzelles de Granollers (9'35")
Tríptic Laietà: Barcelona-la ciutat (4'55")
Tríptic Laietà: Barcelona-el port (4'52")
Tríptic Laietà: Barcelona-la muntanya (4'38")
Ones plàcides a Lloret (4'25")
A l'entorn de la Porxada (5'10")
Roser Pujades (5'05")
