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Concert de Rialp

Partitura general

Guitarra y Orquesta sinfónica

TORRENT, Jaume

Reg.: B.3610

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  • Ensemble: Symphonic orchestra: With soloist(s).
  • Genres: Classical / contemporary: Symphonic.
  • Language of the comment: Català/English/Castellano
  • Product format: Partitura
  • Difficulty level: Advanced-superior
  • Period: 2nd half S. XX - XXI
  • Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
  • Collection: Siglo XXI
  • No. of pages: 120
  • Measure: 31,00 x 23,00 cm
  • Lenght: 32'00''
  • ISBN: 978-84-8020-909-0
  • ISMN: 979-0-3503-0846-8
  • Available in digital: No
  • Available for rent: Yes

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As a composer I have structured an extensive compositional work around the guitar, an instrument that, being mine, has enabled me to delve into formal, stylistic and morphological aspects that cultivate new ground in guitar literature and that point towards the development of techniques that tradition has not contemplated so far. Among the most ambitious compositional experiences - in terms of instrumental and formal complexity - with which I have been swelling my catalog in recent times there is a Concert for Guitar and Strings (op.52), a Concert for Violin, Guitar and Strings (op. 62) and a Concerto for Flute, Guitar and Strings (op.67). Despite the satisfaction of having been able to premiere these works with important orchestras such as the Kensington Symphony Orchestra and the San Francisco Sinfonietta of the United States or the Italian Chamber Orchestra of Trieste, the challenge of writing a concert for Guitar and Symphony Orchestra was left pending waiting for the appearance of an opportunity to release the necessary impulse to initiate it. In the summer of last year, after offering a concert at the Caregue church, the occasion was presented. The Music Festival of Rialp, in the mouth of the president of the Musical Youth of Pallars Sobirà, Mr. Josep Sabarich, I commissioned the composition of a Concert for Guitar and Symphony Orchestra to be performed, on the occasion of the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Festival, the next day August 15, 2010 the Church of Rialp with the Czech National Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Inma Shara.

The concert consists of three movements and the titles of each of them refer to prominent geographical places in the region:

I Pic de l'Orri .......................................... Moderate. Calm.
II Vall d'Àssua ........................................ Calmo assai
III Riu de Sant Antoni ............................. Allegro ritmico. Andante tranquillo.

The concert maintains a permanently concertante discourse between the guitar and the symphonic orchestra, maintaining a perfect balance between the two sound worlds and without renouncing to explore the genuine possibilities that each of them possesses: the guitar develops a surprising variety of resources that enhance the maximum expressive capacity while the orchestra cuddled up with an extensive range of textures from which subtle sonorities sometimes emerge and others all the sonorous vigor coming from the tutti.

The language I use seeks to achieve an effective symbiosis between modernity and tradition following the line of my previous compositional trajectory. It does not contain any reference to popular music, it departs at all times from the expectations created by the language of folkloric roots that have exploded - in concerts of these characteristics - most of the recognized composers. In the Rialp Concert, modernity is reflected through a search for its own forms of expression, experimentation with new avenues of thematic development and a genuine approach to formal solutions, all of this, but without stopping using expressiveness and lyricism as propitious foundations of communication with the public.

The concert also explores new technical resources of the guitar. Thanks to a specific work of the "extensions" of the left hand, mechanical formulas are developed that allow the execution of certain scales at unsuspected tempi. In the cadenza of the first movement, the guitar develops the main theme through an unprecedented instrumental motif in guitar writing that produces a polyphony effect of new dimensions.

I have tried to take advantage of the peculiar sonorous differences that exist between the guitar and the orchestra -both from the dynamic point of view as well as from the timbre point- to deepen the dramatic meaning that their confrontation provides. In the second movement -calmo assai- this drama is expressed in a particularly forceful way by a tension never achieved so far in a concert for guitar and orchestra.

Jaume Torrent

I. Pic de l'Orri (Moderato. Tranquillo)

II. Vall d'Àssua (Calmo assai)

III. Riu de Sant Antoni (Allegro ritmico e giocoso. Andante tranquillo)

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