Gabriel Bianco performs 'La Catedral' by Agustin Barrios Mangore

This performance of 'La Catedral' by Agustin Barrios Mangore was an item in his London debut concert on March 19th 2024 at the famous Trinity School, Croydon London.
Gabriel Bianco is considered to be one of nowadays’s finest classical guitarists. Gabriel has won first prize in several international competitions, has performed in over fifty countries spanning every continent, and has recorded 8 CDs.
ADAMI Classic Revelation in 2011 as well as first prize competing in Sernancelhe (Portugal, 2005), Ile de Ré (France, 2006), Gitarre Forum Wien (Austria, 2006), “Silesian Autumn” in Tychy (Poland, 2006) , “Hubert Käppel” in Koblenz (Germany, 2007), Barbezieux (France, 2007), Guitar Foundation of America (United States of America, 2008), “Fundación Gredos san Diego” in Madrid (Spain, 2011), “ Andrés Ségovia” in Almuñecar (Spain, 2012).
Today, he directs the higher education at the “Conservatorium van Amsterdam” (Netherlands), he gives individual lessons there.
Agustin Barrios Mangore (1855-1944) was a Paraguayan classical guitar virtuoso and composer. He composed over 300 works for solo guitar and made over 30 recordings, including what may have been the first recording of a classical guitarist on vinyl record. For many years after Barrios's death, his life and works were remembered only in his native Paraguay. However, beginning in the 1970s, his music found a wider audience thanks to the performances of Australian guitarist John Williams and American guitarist Richard Stover. Today, the music of Barrios is now a large part of the classical guitar repertory.
Recognised as Barrios Mangoré’s masterpiece, the 3-movement work La Catedral (The Cathedral), dating from 1921, uses both the ambient sound of the cathedral bells and the internal sound of an organist playing Bach as points of inspiratio. The work was originally written as a 2-movement work and was first recorded by Barrios Mangoré in 1928. The first movement Prelude is subtitled Saudade (Nostalgia) and was added to the work in 1938. The history of the work starts with Barrios Mangoré in Montevideo, the capital of Uruguay. From his hotel he could hear the bells of the Cathedral of San José, which, as church bells do, overrode all other sounds, interrupting his composing and practicing. This became the beginning of his second movement, the Andante religioso. The composer then enters the cathedral proper and hears the organist practicing his Bach.
After the quiet musical time in the cathedral, our composer emerges back onto the street where all life whirls around him. The street is energetic and insistent, but still, the repeating note of the cathedral bells has a place.
A decade after his first recording of the work, which had become a staple of his concert performances, Barrios Mangoré added a Prelude to the work. Written in Havana, while he was in desperate financial straits with difficulties in his health and his home life compounding his problems, he wrote this yearning opening to the work. He looked to the happiness of the past and concentrated it in this opening movement. Barrios Mangoré’s premiere of the three-movement version was at a concert in San Salvador in July 1938.
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Recorded live at Trinity School, Croydon, London UK on 19th March 2024, by Andrew Keeping
www.keepingmusic.co.uk
www.keepingmedia.co.uk
Equipment:
DPA 4006 stereo matched pair, into RME BabyFace pro. Edited on Cubase DAW.
Filmed on Lumix GH6 and GH5, into Atamos Shogun.
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