The Partitas

The Partitas are a collection of four works for solo guitar, each exploring the formal possibilities of the multi-movement genre of the Baroque. In addition to the entailed hermeneutics of the genre-based title, each carries relationships back to historical precedents, implied in their subtitles, but, I think, less overtly manifest in the mood and affect than in my works specifically exploring Gleichzeitigkeit der Ungleichzeitigkeit. The works will be featured on a forthcoming album on New Focus Recordings.

The Courtier. A work evocative of Renaissance lute writing, and (titularly and affetively) Castiglione’s Il Cortegiano.

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Le Dauphin. A work exploring the notion of ‘doubles’ in Baroque music, particularly in the Partitas of Bach, in particular BWV 1102. Also, there’s a fugue.

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The Duchess. An imagistic reflection on the live of Bonn of Bonne of Luxembourg (1315-1349), a notable figure in 14th-century French court life, and a great supporter of Guillaume de Machaut

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La Comète. A work based on Jacques Galot's 'La comète', and the astronomical fixations of the court of the Sun King. Live Capture

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