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Contrastes Records... For the Elite Audience

Contrastes Records' goals go beyond simply creating a novel project in the world of classical guitar. Contrastes Records works towards redefining the aesthetical aspect pertaining to the receptive interpretation of guitar music. The performers and composers who work with our label, beyond possessing polished technique, have a vision of music and of the

guitar, and of their place in their cultural function today. Contrastes Records is not an elitist label, it is simply a label for an elite audience. The work of Contrastes Records is based on continuity, and on the continued development of the artists that we take on from the beginning. From this point of view, Contrastes Records it is not influenced by current fashions, or by a passing parade that comes and goes in the world of classical guitar or in contemporary composition. In addition, the importance we give to marketing and design allows for our CD's to stand out from the myriad of other albums on a record store shelf. Contrastes Records sublimates and searches to establish connections between sound images and visual metaphors that are out of the ordinary. Our design concept doesn't pander to the established tastes of the established market of classical guitar recordings. On the contrary, we are more interested in stimulating the market to evolve and to reinvent itself. Our designs accentuate emotions by means of images and musicological texts, where the aesthetic experience and the existential real-life experience meet. We fine-tune all aspects of our albums by tailoring each CD in a meticulous fashion. In order to do this, we work with highly qualified musicologists, photographers and graphic artists. Our records are distributed by Naxos International Inc and Universal Music.

07/11/2024

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02/11/2024

Crítica de Juan Vergillos publicada en el Diario de Sevilla sobre el concierto que Ramon Amador nos brindó ayer en el Espacio Turina dentro del XV Festival de la Guitarra de Sevilla

El Festival de la Guitarra de Sevilla se consolida como un espacio para la guitarra flamenca de

02/11/2024

Contrastes récords en el Festival de la Guitarra de Sevilla.

01/11/2024

Artículo del concierto de ayer del Cuarteto de Guitarras de Andalucía publicado en el
Diario de Sevilla por Andrés Moreno Mengibar 😊

A los cinco años desde su creación,

22/10/2024

https://www.abc.es/queplan/sevilla/conciertos/festival-guitarra-sevilla-dedica-antonio-machado-contara-20241022135605-nts.html

Una de las novedades es que se celebrará uno de los conciertos en el monasterio del Loreto de Espartinas

22/10/2024

Ya está disponible en todas las plataformas digitales el fantástico disco del guitarrista japonés, IO YAMADA. Ganador del Concorso Pittaluga 2023. No os lo podéis perder! Aquí os pasamos el enlace a Spotify.

+ info: www.contrastesrecords.com

https://open.spotify.com/album/57Ud3X43cZktuS1fzC10cq?si=ZDcl1vofTeOnNaT8WM4UmA

“Sublime albums that are objects of beauty in themselves… made of beautiful black & white pictures that suggest mystery.”

22/10/2024

Ha salido en el último número de Hispanica Lyra, revista de la Soc. de la Vihuela, una larga reseña muy elogiosa de nuestro último CD de Valderrábano. Enhorabuena John Griffiths!
😀

+ info aquí:
https://www.contrastesrecords.com/silvadesirenas

19/10/2024

Queridos amigos,
Dentro de unos días dará comienzo el XV FESTIVAL DE LA GUITARRA DE SEVILLA "Hoy es siempre todavía" y será el próximo días martes 22 de octubre en el Salón Carlos III de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría a cargo de la guitarrista japonesa NENE YOKOMURA con un programa muy atractivo para todo el público. Es de entrada libre hasta completar aforo y podrán apreciar, además, la belleza de un lugar histórico como es la Casa de los Pinelo. ¡No os lo perdáis!

Os adjuntamos un video de Nene Yokomura como aperitivo de su recital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEOFKtpzHec

Saludos y feliz fin de semana,
Francisco

16/08/2024

Review cd SILVA DE SIRENAS with John Griffiths in the review Lute News. Bravo John!
more info: https://www.contrastesrecords.com/silvadesirenas

01/08/2024

https://www.contrastesrecords.com/deioncho

One of the lasting musical achievements of Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) was his liberation of the guitar from its traditional stylistic boundaries. Whether done consciously or not, his guitar music recorded here, the Douze Études and his five Préludes, marks a turning point in the repertoire and future horizons of the instrument. It was probably little more than the happy conjunction of many disparate elements and influences, rather than a conscious attempt to change the path of history.

Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro into a large, middle-class family. His father was an amateur musician and it was through him that Heitor began his musical activities, initially as a cellist. Family circumstances, including the premature death of his father, as much as his fascination with Rio’s popular music scene, led him to become involved performing in theatres and restaurants as a cellist and guitarist. He had taught himself guitar by the time this activity began in his teens. It was this experience that directed him towards the incorporation of urban popular styles into his later compositions for the concert hall and gave him a familiarity with the guitar that would give him incomparable guidance in forging his later compositions.

As a composer, Villa-Lobos was initially self-taught, drawing on diverse experiences from two distinct musical worlds, much more strongly separated by socio-economic class than is the case today. Villa-Lobos is also alleged to have travelled to vatious rural and uncultivated regions of Brazil during the decade before World War I and to have begun his activity of gathering indigenous and folk music in the areas he visited. As his personality as a composer began to take shape, he was assimilating music from the European classical tradition alongside indigenous musical sounds and the emerging urban popular music that superimposed elements from countless imported traditions upon music of European salons.

John Griffiths

One of the lasting musical achievements of Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) was his liberation of the guitar from its traditional stylistic boundaries. Whether done consciously or not, his guitar music recorded here, the Douze Études and his five Préludes, marks a turning point in the repertoire and...

26/04/2024

IO Yamada perform the beautiful "Por tí mi corazón" by Manuel M. Ponce recorded in the Contrastes records´studio in Burguillos (Sevilla) for Contrastes Records as winner of the 2023 Pittaluga International Guitar Competition in Alessandria (Italy)

"Por ti mi corazón" Manuel M. Ponce. Io Yamada, guitarrecording in Contrastes records' studio in Burguillos (Sevilla) as a winner of the 2023 Pittaluga Inte...

17/04/2024

¡Un saludo a mis nuevos seguidores! Es un placer teneros por aquí.

Daimike Mike, Francesco Stumpo, Colin Fullerton, Hiroshi Hamasaki, GianVito Pulzone, Giovanni Masi, Iulia Bozbei, Igor Klokov, Eduardo Cordon, Camille Verger, Hao Yang, Berndt Leopolder, Eugenio Becherucci, Alberto Vingiano, Bernardino Rodríguez, Camilo V. Guitarra, Enrique Muñoz, Francisco Burgos Freile, Andrew Mah, Ivana Cikic, James Kline, Angelo Marchese, Donna Lively Clark, Alberto Rodríguez Ortiz, Andrea Monarda

10/04/2024

Thanks for this fantastic review about Contrastes Records by Pablo Vayon in the Scherzo.
www.contrastesrecords.com

13/03/2024

Queridos amigos,
Comparto con vosotros mi interpretación de la fantástica obra para guitarra "Luz Azul" compuesta por Cesar Camarero y publicada en el sello discográfico Contrastes records (www.contrastesrecords com).

En palabras del propio compositor:

LUZ AZUL
Escribí esta obra, la primera mía para este instrumento, en 1995, para mi amigo el gran guitarrista italiano Sefano Cardi. En aquellos años pensaba que la guitarra flamenca era mucho más interesante que la clásica (hoy en día no estoy tan seguro), y esto me llevó a utilizar algunos toques y gestos propios de ella, integrados en mi lenguaje de aquella época. Recuerdo muy bien que el título surgió después de haber visto la impresionante exposición retrospectiva de la obra del artista Ives Klein, en el Museo Reina Sofía de Madrid. De alguna manera pensé en hacer una especie de homenaje a la obra de Klein, con esas esculturas pintadas con pigmentos azul cobalto, azul Ives Klein. El estreno tuvo lugar en el Acquario Romano (Roma), el 3 de octubre de 1995, con el propio Stefano Cardi a la guitarra. Más adelante surgió una versión para acordeón de esta obra, un concierto para guitarra y ensemble, LA MEMORIA DEL AGUA, y más adelante una versión de LUZ AZUL para trio con piano. Este fue el origen de una práctica que he desarrollado ampliamente años después, el repensar una obra determinada para otro/s instrumento/s distintos de la versión original.

La interpretación de Francisco Bernier es especial, el entendimiento profundo de la energía de la música y de los gestos y su trayectoria sonora resulta fascinante.

César Camarero

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Credits:
Producers: Francisco Bernier
Publisher: Contrastes records
Graphic designer: David Rezco
Photograph cover art: Todd Trapani
Composer: César Camarero
Performer: Francisco Bernier
Sound engineer: Francisco Cuadrado / Francisco Bernier
Luthier: Daniel Friederich (1996)
Special thanks: Juan García Rodríguez
Recorded: Espacio Turina
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ANCORA LA BREZZA E L’ALBA PIAZZOLLA VIVALDI BANDINI CHIACHIARETTA & CERRATO BROTHERS Giampaolo Bandini, Guitar Cesare Chiacchiaretta, Accordion/Bandoneon Fracesco Cerrato, Violin Stefano Cerrato, Cello https://www.contrastesrecords.com/ancora-la-brezza-e-lalba