Fleeting Castles

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Label
Alpha
Release Date
August 23, 2024
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Leonard Bernstein, Leonard Cohen, George Gershwin, Ernesto Halffter, Jimi Hendrix, Baden Powell, Ric
    • PERFORMER
      Sebastien Llinares
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 23, 2024
    • UPC
      3701624510636
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ALPHA1063
    • LABEL
      Alpha
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE

Each of the pieces in this programme is like an ephemeral castle that I can take refuge in when I feel like it, says Sebastien Llinares. The French guitarist, who stands at the crossroads of classical, jazz and contemporary music and also produces the programme Guitare, guitares on France Musique, here puts his playing at the service of every kind of music. Jimi Hendrix's Castle Made Of Sand was the inspiration for this programme; Sebastien Llinares hears in it the unchanging open string that the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos so often used. His journey continues with tributes to famous songs by Bernstein, Gershwin and Rodgers & Hart, an evocation of Rufus Wainwright and Baden Powell in the forms of the Habanera and Bossa Nova - not forgetting a tribute to Django by John Lewis as well as Leonard Cohen's eternal Hallelujah, which takes on the air of an ancient canario when played on the classical guitar. Two bagatelles and an impromptu composed by Llinares himself complete the family portrait.