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Hans Werner Henze: Royal Winter Music - Stefano Grondona (gu

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Composer
Hans Werner Henze
Artist
Stefano Grondona
Format
CD
Label
Stradivarius
Released
Aug 07, 2026
Catalog #
STR37367
UPC
8011570373670

About

Hans Werner Henze. Royal Winter Music. Two Sonatas on Shakespearean Characters marks an important stage in Stefano Grondona's recording career: after years of sustained engagement with it and public performances (roughly from 1982 to 1995), the musician returns to confront this pivotal work of twentieth-century guitar repertoire. At the same time, in the manner and outcomes of this traversal, the record bears witness to an oblique and little-trodden modality of approaching compositions that, like this one, embody peculiarities and contradictions of the more cultured guitar repertoire. The physiognomy of this work, as Marek Orszulik argued (Aspects of the Historical Development of Repertoire for the Guitar. A Case Study of Hans Werner Henze's Royal Winter Music, Sonatas on Shakespearean Characters, University of Alberta, 2016), reconciles the sonata, understood as a genre of large-scale form and monumental architecture, with the Character Piece, a rhapsodic, dramatic, and psychological composition. In the introductions to the printed editions published by Schott, Henze makes clear that, through the Royal Winter Music cycle, he intended to engage with a series of key characters from Shakespearean theatre (to whom the different movements of the sonatas are dedicated), who appear and disappear through the guitar's sonic textures.

Tracklist 17 tracks

  1. 1 Ritonerllo I 01:26
    Track
    1
    Title
    Ritonerllo I
    Duration
    01:26
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  2. 2 I. Gloucester 07:41
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Gloucester
    Duration
    07:41
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  3. 3 Ritonerllo II 01:33
    Track
    3
    Title
    Ritonerllo II
    Duration
    01:33
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  4. 4 II. Romeo and Juliet 04:17
    Track
    4
    Title
    II. Romeo and Juliet
    Duration
    04:17
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  5. 5 Ritonerllo III 01:30
    Track
    5
    Title
    Ritonerllo III
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  6. 6 III. Ariel 08:25
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Ariel
    Duration
    08:25
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  7. 7 Ritonerllo IV 01:32
    Track
    7
    Title
    Ritonerllo IV
    Duration
    01:32
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  8. 8 IV. Ophelia 04:06
    Track
    8
    Title
    IV. Ophelia
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  9. 9 Ritonerllo V 01:28
    Track
    9
    Title
    Ritonerllo V
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  10. 10 V. Touchstone, Audrey and William 04:22
    Track
    10
    Title
    V. Touchstone, Audrey and William
    Duration
    04:22
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  11. 11 Ritonerllo VI 01:28
    Track
    11
    Title
    Ritonerllo VI
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  12. 12 VI. Oberon 10:13
    Track
    12
    Title
    VI. Oberon
    Duration
    10:13
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  13. 13 Ritonerllo VII 01:30
    Track
    13
    Title
    Ritonerllo VII
    Duration
    01:30
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  14. 14 I. Sir Andrew Aguecheek 07:11
    Track
    14
    Title
    I. Sir Andrew Aguecheek
    Duration
    07:11
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  15. 15 II. Bottom's Dream 07:22
    Track
    15
    Title
    II. Bottom's Dream
    Duration
    07:22
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  16. 16 III. Mad Lady Macbeth 11:33
    Track
    16
    Title
    III. Mad Lady Macbeth
    Duration
    11:33
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona
  17. 17 Ritornello VIII 01:28
    Track
    17
    Title
    Ritornello VIII
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Hans Werner Henze
    Performer
    Stefano Grondona