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New Release — Andrés Segovia Archive: French Composers Featuring Robert Moronn Pérez
Now Available — Andrés Segovia Archive: French Composers Roberto Moronn Pérez, Guitar Following his successful debut album of Spanish composers, Roberto Moronn Pérez performs selected works from the “Andrés Segovia Archive”, this time showcasing the French composers. The genesis for this unique project is a collection of pieces recovered in May 2001 at Segovia’s home in Spain. These pieces were dedicated to Segovia or commissioned by him, involving composers from eight countries. They were subsequently…
Stream a Track from Andrés Segovia Archive: French Composers Today!
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What Critics said about the André Segovia Archive Vol. 1
Have a look back at what critics were saying about the first volume of the André Segovia Archive by Roberto Moronn Pérez: “Using his fingers as a painter manipulates colors, he (Roberto Moronn Pérez) creates an infinite spectrum of sound…” —Jean-Fraçois Sanchez, Tutti “Andrés Segovia is regarded as the savior of the classical guitar and its literature…Spanish-born Perez is an accomplished guitarist…outstanding recording…” —John Sunier, Audiophile Audition “The music is simply magnificent…Perez is a fine,…
Tutti Magazine Gives Roberto Moronn Perez a 10/10!
French magazine, Tutti, gives Roberto Moronn Pérez’s Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers recording a 10/10 rating and review! “Andrés Segovia was unable to bring all of the compositions he received to the stage, nor to save them. And that’s the whole point of this disc: present some of these beautiful pieces, written by all of the most brilliant composers. The joint program is perfect, alternating fast and slow parts, and joyous and melancholy. …each new…
Audiophile Audition Gives Roberto Moronn Perez Four Stars
Audiophile Audition gives four stars to FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive, Vol. 1 featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: “Andrés Segovia is regarded as the savior of the classical guitar and its literature…These are mostly short, rather quiet, guitar pieces by six Spanish composers: Aregui, Sanjuan, Cassado, Donostia, Pahissa and Mompou…Spanish-born Perez is an accomplished guitarist…The outstanding recording was made in 2010 in the acoustics of the Holy Trinity Church in Weston, Hertfordshire…
Federico Mompou — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Federico Mompou Apart from gracing the Segovian guitar repertoire with the splendid Suite Compostelana, Federico Mompou dedicated a piece from one of his two-part works (n. 13) to the guitar and also arranged the guitar version (without a date) of the Canción y Danza n. 10, originally composed for piano. The underlying melody…
Padre Donostia — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Padre Donostia A much more robust piece is the composition of José Antonio de San Sebastián, the secular name of the Cappuchine monk known across the musical world as Padre Donostia. His piece which is entitled (in the Basque dialect), Errimina (Nostalgia), attempts to evoke the delirium of an exile who, alone in…
Vicente Arregui — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Vicente Arregui The composer Vicente Arregui was a native of Madrid with origins in Navarre. He turned his attention to the guitar in the final years of his life, especially 1924-25. He wrote five pieces in which we can clearly hear reflected aspects of late Spanish Romanticism, in particular salon music which made…
Composer Pedro Sanjuán — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Pedro Sanjuán Although Segovia was not yet famous in Europe prior to 1924, in Spain and in Latin-American countries he was already considered the ‘king of the guitar’, so itis no surprise that, after Moreno-Torroba, other Spanish composers committed themselves to writing new pieces for the guitar in the years 1919-1923. Amongst the…
Composer Gaspar Cassadó — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Gaspar Cassadó The great cellist Gaspar Cassadó was a friend and keen follower of Segovia, dating back to his youth, and during the course of his brief but inspired activity as a composer, took up the guitar. He celebrated special moments and events with pieces that he wrote for the instrument and which…
Composer Jaume Pahissa — Andrés Segovia Archive
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Jaume Pahissa In his autobiography, the great guitarist writes a few words about the Catalan composer Jaume Pahissa and states that “he was not interested in composing for solo instruments or chamber ensembles, but only for large orchestral formations.” Segovia does not refer, even briefly, to the fact that in July 1919 Pahissa…
Legendary Producer Thomas Frost talks Andrés Segovia and Roberto Moronn Pérez
As RR Executive Director Marcia Martin noted in the liner notes, we were extremely happy to have legendary multi-Grammy winning producer Thomas Frost bring us the wonderful Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers recording by Roberto Moronn Pérez. Read why Mr. Frost was as excited about it as we are: I first met Roberto Moronn Pérez in Malibu, California on May 31, 2OO6. He was one of fifteen competitors in the 2OO6 Christopher Parkening International Guitar…
On the Andrés Segovia Archive – Part Two
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Perez (Read Part One Here): From the very first concerts of the 1920s Segovia’s approach in commissioning new music was very clear. As he was dealing with world renowned composers, he did not attempt to criticize the new works, he simply evaluated each piece in terms of its affinity with his own personal sound…
On the Andrés Segovia Archive – Part One
From the liner notes of the new FRESH! From Reference Recordings release Andrés Segovia Archive: Spanish Composers featuring guitarist Roberto Moronn Perez: One of Andrés Segovia’s greatest achievements in the history of guitar music was his success in commissioning new works for his instrument. From the very outset of his career he took the decision to become actively involved in encouraging world renowned composers to write for him. up till that point, guitar performance had…
New RR Radio Track – Andrés Segovia Archive
Stream our newest RR Radio Track via SoundCloud from new release Andrés Segovia Archive by guitarist Roberto Moronn Pérez: Andrés Segovia Archive Spanish Composers Roberto Morronn Pérez A Superb New Classical Guitar Recording Order Today!