RECITAL & LECTURE in 5th International Guitar Week in Postojna - Slovenia
RECITAL & LECTURE in 5th International Guitar Week in Postojna - Slovenia
RECITAL & LECTURE in 5th International Guitar Week in Postojna - Slovenia
POSTOJNA-SLOVENIA
Presentation of music score and CD of 12 Etudes by Heitor Villa-Lobos transcribed for piano by Julija Bal
11.07.2016.
http://www.guitarslovenia.com/eng/julija_bal.htm
Welcome to the presentation of music score and CD of 12 Etudes by Heitor Villa-Lobos transcribed for piano by Julija Bal (Concert-lecture)
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887 –1959) was the most significant composer in Brazilian art music. Written in Paris in 1929, and dedicated to Segovia, his 12 Etudes for guitar are considered as a true concert works (like Chopin’s etudes, they are showing a level of difficulty and beauty that is above a simple study). It should be borne in mind that Villa-Lobos’ ideas in Etudes were created for the specific sound of one particular medium - the guitar, and its unique characteristics. To avoid potential loss of the original character, Julija gave herself a kind of freedom, almost that of a composer, while retaining the most important musical features of Villa-Lobos’ etudes: context, essential melody, tonality and form. Inspired by a series of technical elements of guitar playing introduced by Villa-Lobos, she tried to apply a similar idea to her transcriptions. Exploring some current technical practices of piano playing and integrating them into the music, she succeeded in introducing a way of "upgrading" those compositions and thus not disturbing its context.
- Publishing of this book and CD was provided by Brazilian Embassy in Belgrade
- Publisher : Guitarist Association of Vojvodina (www.agv.org.rs)
- Awarded by "Muzika Klasika" for the best clasical music publication in 2013 in Serbia