Guinjoan: Early Piano Works

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IBS Classical
Release Date
January 3, 2025
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      Joan Guinjoan
    • PERFORMER
      Alfonso Calderon de Castro
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 03, 2025
    • UPC
      8436597700801
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      IBS-102024
    • LABEL
      IBS Classical
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Preludio No. 1

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    2. Ensayo a dos voces

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    3. El pinell de dalt

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    4. Fantasia en Do

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    5. Scherzo and Trio

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    6. I. Introducción

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    7. II. Española

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    8. III. Canto para un Bebé

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    9. IV. Ritmos modernos

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    10. V. Lamento

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    11. VI. Canto popular religioso

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    12. Pequeña Fantasia in F Minor

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    13. No. 1. Resignacion (Sarabande)

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    14. No. 2. Siciliana (Homenaje a los clavecinistas franceses)

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    15. No. 3. Melodia exótica

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    16. Rosario Vasconcel

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    17. I. Moderato

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    18. II. Lento

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    19. III. Presto

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    20. Momentos No. 1

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro

    21. Chez Garcia Ramos

      Composer: Joan Guinjoan

      Performer: Alfonso Calderón de Castro


From ancient times, cosmogonies talk about chaos as the origin: it is not the previous disorder but the abyss where things finds their place to be. A distance that reminds the creation power, repeated as an echo in a creative momentum. Thus Joan Guinjoan understands the artistic creation, where the com- poser always finds an abyss under his feet. An abyss that both fascinates and challenges, facing it means boldness and the necessary craft to find one's own voice in the concert voices. Therefore, he defined compo- sition as the challenge to face one's self. But also, the horizon of his work was to find his roots inside himself after a long journey of more than half a century. However, we stand in front a sort of music that it is not born from abstract speculation but from craft- manship; it means, from de sud- den meeting with musical stuff. Pre- cisely, Guinjoan's piano, which is provided of a sharp consciousness of musical stuff, is productive in our analysis and speculative games. In front of them, the Maestro always expresses his reservations, aware of the dangers of some creative adventures during the Post Avant- Gardes. In this work, Alfonso Calderon de Castro sets himself up as an interpre- ter in the Greco-Latin sense of the term: one destined to reveal what re- mains hidden. It does so by reveal- ing hidden aspects of Guinjoan's piano literature, allowing us to take these early works as microcosms of his entire catalogue. His piano navigates with personality and aesthetic intelligence, embodying the composer's motto, that is the instrumental humanisation from the subtle exploration of all parameters, without forgetting the communications among composer, performer and listener. In short, the pianist gives us in this work an an- thology destined to the timelessness of what it is classical, capable of withstanding the passage of time with the elegance of a caryatid.