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Fernando Sor - Complete Fantasies For Guitar - Stefano Palamidessi / Brilliant Classics 3x Audio CD 2010 / 93960
UPC 5028421939605
Fernando Sor (bapt. 14 Feb. 1778, died 10 July 1839) was a Spanish classical guitarist and composer of the Early Romantic era. Best known for writing solo classical guitar music, he also composed an opera (at the age of 19), three symphonies, guitar duos, piano music, songs, a Mass, and at least two successful ballets: Cinderella, which received over one hundred performances, and Hercule et Omphale.
Partly because Sor was himself such a classical guitar virtuoso—contemporaries considered him to be the best in the world—he made a point of writing didactic music for players of that instrument of all levels. His Twelve Studies Op. 6, the Twelve Studies Op. 29, the (24) Progressive Lessons Op. 31, and the (24) Very Easy Exercises Op. 35 have been widely played for two hundred years and are regularly reprinted. On the other hand, some of Sor's music, not least his popular Introduction and Variations on Mozart's "Das klinget so herrlich" Op. 9, is fiendishly difficult.
Unlike modern classical guitar players, Sor used the smaller, slimmer "Romantic" guitars predating today's familiar Torres instrument. He used the ring finger of his plucking hand "rarely" and "only for harmony (never for melody)." He eschewed the use of nails on that hand.
| Label: | Brilliant Classics – 93960 |
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| Format: |
3 x CD, Album
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| Country: | Europe |
| Released: |
2010 |
| Genre: | Classical |
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Tracklist:
| 1-1 | Fantasia No. 1 In C Minor (Dedicated To Ignaz Pleyel) Op. 7 | |
| 1-2 | Fantasia No. 2 In A Major Op. 4 | |
| 1-3 | Fantasia No. 3 In F Major Op. 10 | |
| 1-4 | Fantasia No. 4 In C Major (Dedicated To Frederic Kalkbrenner) Op. 12 | |
| 1-5 | Serenade In E Major Op. 37 | |
| 2-1 | Fantasia No. 5 In C Major (On "Nel Cor Piú Non Mi Sento" Of Panisello) Op. 16 | |
| 2-2 | Fantasia No. 6 "Les Adieux!" In E Minor Op. 21 (Dedicated To Francesco Vaccari) | |
| 2-3 | Fantasia No. 7 In E Minor (Dedicated To Denis Aguado) Op. 30 | |
| 2-4 | Fantasia In D Major On A Scottish Theme Op. 40 | |
| 2-5 | Fantasia In A Major "Souvenir D'amitie" (Dedicated To Jules Regondi) Op. 46 | |
| 2-6 | La Calme, Caprice In E Major Op. 50 | |
| 3-1 | Fantasia Villageoise In A Minpr (Dedicated To Denis Aguado) Op. 52 | |
| 3-2 | Morceau De Concert In D Major Op. 54 | |
| 3-3 | Fantasia "Souvenirs D'une Soirée À Berlin" In D Major Op. 56 | |
| 3-4 | Fantasia In A Minor Op. 58 | |
| 3-5 | Fantasia In D Minor Op. Postuma | |
| 3-6 | Fantasia Elegiaca In E Minor Op. 59 |
- Classical Guitar – Stefano Palamidessi
