BI/STRUMENTAL
Sound and Video - Jakub Klimeš
Recorded on the 6th December 2020 at the Royal Conservatoire of The Hague
The Sonata for Guitar and Harpsichord by Manuel Ponce is one of the earliest compositions featuring the harpsichord as chamber music instrument of an equal importance and also the first combining it with the guitar. The piece was born in 1926 in Paris surrounded by an immensely rich musical environment of the beginning of the 20th-century.
Ponce, coming from Mexico studied piano in Berlin with a Liszt-pupil, later went to Paris to study composition with Paul Dukas, in the same class with Joaquín Rodrigo and Heitor Villa-Lobos. In Paris, he must have met with the revival ha...