Various Artists: Napoleonian Guitar Sonatas - COMPACT DISCS

Title: Napoleonian Guitar Sonatas
Artist: Various Artists
Label: Centaur
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 044747373324
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020-01-17
Number of Discs: 1

This album features four major works for guitar from the age of Napoleon. Pascal Valois performs these works with exceptional presence and sensitivity. Pascal Valois is dedicated to reviving enthusiasm for the guitar scene during the Romantic era. He performs music from the nineteenth-century repertoire by using various period instruments, ornamentation, stylistic practices of the period, as well as improvisation, which was customary in that era. After graduating with honours at the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal under Jean Vallières, and receiving the award Pierre J. Jeanniot during his studies at Université du Québec à Montréal with Alvaro Pierri, Valois studied romantic guitar with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and with David Starobin in New York. He has also received a doctorate in Performance Practice from Université Laval. Recently, he has played in Basel, Paris, Riga, San Francisco, New York, Ottawa, and Toronto. He has been a soloist with many ensembles, among them Rigas's Ensemble Samsara and Montreal's Les Idées Heureuses. He has also given master-classes in many institutions, including the Manhattan School of music, the San Francisco Conservatory, and the Conservatoire de musique de Montréal.

Tracks:
1.1 Sonates pour la guitare avec un violon obligé, Op. 17~No. 1. I. Allegro agitato
1.2 Sonates pour la guitare avec un violon obligé, Op. 17~No. 1. II. Adagio poco lento
1.3 Sonates pour la guitare avec un violon obligé, Op. 17~No. 1. III. Vivace
1.4 Sonate brillante, Op. 1~I. Allegro
1.5 Sonate brillante, Op. 1~II. Adagio cantabile
1.6 Sonate brillante, Op. 1~III. Vivace
1.7 Sonates pour la guitare avec un violon obligé, Op. 17~No. 2. I. Moderato
1.8 Sonates pour la guitare avec un violon obligé, Op. 17~No. 2. II. Adagio
1.9 Sonates pour la guitare avec un violon obligé, Op. 17~No. 2. III. Polonaise moderato
1.10 Sonate pour la guitare, Op. 4, No. 1~I. Allegretto
1.11 Sonate pour la guitare, Op. 4, No. 1~II. Andante
1.12 Sonate pour la guitare, Op. 4, No. 1~III. Rondeau allegro

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