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Sonates de París, Vol. 2

Paris Sonates / Sonatas de París

Piano

COMELLAS, Joan

Reg.: B.3662

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  • Review: McCLURE, Mac
  • Ensemble: Solo.
  • Genres: Classical / contemporary: Solos.
  • Product format: Partitura
  • Difficulty level: Intermediate
  • Period: 2nd half S. XX - XXI
  • Publishing house: Editorial Boileau
  • Collection: Siglo XXI
  • No. of pages: 36
  • Measure: 31,00 x 23,00 cm
  • Lenght: 11' 10"
  • ISMN: 979-0-3503-0902-1
  • Available in digital: No
  • Available for rent: No

The Sonatas de París are divided into two books. Comellas began the series in early 1952 and they were finished in 1955. As with most of his works, he composed without having a plan to premier them or a commission. So upon having them completed, he filed them away. On many occasions, his close friend Jordi Giro would read thrue the pieces or Anna Ricci would sing his songs, but very little of his music was performed during his life time.

The two books entitled Sonatas de París are really to books with totally different character.

The first book is made up of short piano pieces in a neo baroque style. More than following strict forms of the baroque suite, the pieces are more a evoking of the baroque style. Book one loosely follows the idea of a suite or ordre, where as book two is much freer in structure being made up of various pieces, a few in memory of his favored composers (Albeniz, Debussy, and Granados) ending with a group of four dances, Las indias danzantes [Dances of the Indian girls], that refer to an Indian dance. This group of dances is not really playable by one pianist and seems to be really meant to be performed piano 4 hands, but since there is no note about this in the score it is hard to say. A few of these pieces were performed by Rosa Sabater in Paris in 1980. The present edition is based on manuscripts that are in the Joan Comellas deposit in the National Catalonian Library in Barcelona.

 

A la memoria de Isaac Albéniz (1'33")
A la memoria de Claude Debussy (1'05")
La de poco pie (Homenaje a Granados) (2'57")
La comitiva (1'07")
Las indias danzantes I (0'45")
Las indias danzantes II (1'44")
Las indias danzantes III (0'46")
Las indias danzantes IV (0'55")
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