Contrastes Records

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.

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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.

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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.
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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
© & ℗ CONTRASTES RECORDS
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LUZ AZULEscribí esta obra, la primera mía para este instrumento, en 1995, para mi amigo el gran guitarrista italiano Sefano Cardi. En aquellos años pensaba q...

29/02/2024

Very soon...
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20/02/2024

Three questions to Judicaël Perroy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fu5QqHugwT4
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Three questions to Judicael PerroyCd "Paris une solitude peuplée"Contrastes recordswww.contrastesrecords.comwww.cataloguecontrastesrecords.com

19/02/2024

We are very happy to share with you the next released Contrastes records´s released with guitarist Thomas Walsh and his album "Dans les jardins des Hespérides" dedicated to the complete works for guitar by composer Maurice Ohana with ten-string guitar. Very soon!!
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17/02/2024

ANDREA NOSARI
SHAULA

Writing music today is a difficult choice. Choosing the musical language that most belongs to us. Knowing if it is better to rely on past traditions or break all styles that recall harmonic and rhythmic concepts used for centuries.

I, in my music, consider it necessary to continue the speech of the composers who preceded us. I think it is important not to forget that the voice, il canto, is the first musical instrument that nature has given us, so it is not my will to eliminate this primordial form of expression. The traditional harmony is based on scales of seven sounds moving in the ‘900 on scales of twelve sounds.

Shaula wants to be an album that does not break the link with the past, but wants to continue a musical discourse that summarizes all the main features of the music. Singing, with simple melodies that are easy to listen to. Rhythm, with periods and formulas linked to recognizable patterns. The shape, with constructions linked to the traditional tripartite solution. Instinct and improvisation, with the birth of rhythmic and melodic elements linked to pure instinct. The idea comes from a simple playing your instrument, being carried away by an emotional component that is then developed giving itself formal and harmonic rules.

Every scale used in Shaula is six sounds. Hexaphonal scales that give rise to harmonic modules sometimes tonal, sometimes modal and sometimes rich in dissonances. The whole principle is elaborated in function of the musical emotional moment.

Pre to.. .. to End are two parentheses that want to open the album and close it. An introduction and an epilogue of improvised modules that summarize the harmonic aspects of all the songs.

Andrea Nosari

https://www.contrastesrecords.com/shaula

16/02/2024

Gracias a Pablo Vayón por el artículo publicado el pasado 4 de febrero en el Diario de Sevilla sobre el trabajo que realizamos en el sello discográfico Contrastes Records poniendo de relieve seis de las últimas producciones con los artistas Vera Danilina, Jose Luis Pastor Romero de la Osa, Marko Topchii, John Griffiths, Paul Paul Cesarczyk II
https://www.diariodesevilla.es/mapademusicas/Contrastes-Francisco_Bernier_0_1871513643.html

+ información en www.contrastesrecords.com

El sello Contrastes Records, que fundó y dirige el guitarrista sevillano Francisco Bernier, sobrepasará a lo largo de 2024 el medio centenar de referencias

16/02/2024

VERA DANILINA
First prize 2022 "Michele Pittaluga" Guitar Competition, Alessandria (Italy)

Beyond dexterity, beyond virtuosity

With this debut recording, Vera Danilina impresses her seal on the world of the guitar with a decisive certainty that is thoroughly remarkable. It is not just that her fingers move with extraordinary precision and that her technique is faultless, but she also leaves no doubt that she is thoroughly commanding in every aspect of what she does. The repertoire she has chosen to record moves across the history of guitar music from the mid-eighteenth century until almost yesterday, woven together by dazzling virtuosity combined with the poise of a mature interpreter.

John Griffiths

https://www.contrastesrecords.com/veradanilina

02/10/2023

🎙 Entrevista a Francisco Bernier ( ), director del Festival de Guitarra de Sevilla | "Quiero organizar el festival que se merece " https://t.co/MFRsVUAnNn

03/05/2023

https://neuguitars.com/2023/05/01/jose-maria-sanchez-verdus-guitar-collection-and-diary-music-for-guitar-ochra-by-giuseppe-mennuti-contrastes-records-2022-on-neuguitars-blog-giuseppemennuti/

José María Sánchez-Verdú’s guitar collection and diary, “Music for Guitar Ochra” by Giuseppe Mennuti, Contrastes Records, 2022 sanchez-verdu.com | Giuseppe Mennuti – Guitarist Oc…

01/03/2023

Official website: www.contrastesrecords.com

Catalogue Contrastes Records 2013-2023:
https://www.contrastesrecords.com/_files/ugd/f644bd_1a440a6fd6a84290a753f4eee52dc59a.pdf

Contrastes Records is dedicated to offering fine recordings specialising in classical guitar music. Our recordings are primarily defined by the musical vision of the artists we decide to work with. What really interests us, beyond the artist's technique and command of classical guitar repertoire, is a world that is capable of breeding an interpreter and the artist's personal vision of music as a phenomenon.

03/11/2022

Grabación del disco del ganador de la edición 2021 del Certamen Francisco Tárrega, Marko Topchii con su disco "CARNIVALE". Gran intérprete y un disco a no perderse!!

https://www.contrastesrecords.com/carnival

https://open.spotify.com/album/60m8dRXGnInXeqkHBOOmHZ?si=pOetX9hzRj2GQgUAzJnHgA

03/05/2022

DEMAIN DES L’AUBE (Bach, Berio & Bellini)
Thibaut Garcia, guitar
Contrastes records CR6201407

“Thibaut, who won last year’s First Prize in Seville (2013), is a real musical virtuoso; not in the superficial technical sense, but in the sense of integrity and care. He approaches pieces that are stylistically and structurally very diverse and heterogeneous”.

Dusan Bogdanovic

more info: https://www.contrastesrecords.com/demain-des-laube

03/05/2022

We are very happy to announce the new Cd by Timotej Kosovinc "THE GOOD MOMENT" with his own music. Great music and great artist!!
more information in this link: https://www.contrastesrecords.com/thegoodmoment

30/11/2021

We are very happy to announce the new Cd by Ivan Petricevic with music by Bach & Bogdanovic. Great music and great artist!!
more information in this link:
https://www.contrastesrecords.com/esmeralda

30/11/2021

30/11/2021

Gendai Guitar in Japan published an article about our label Contrastes records. Here we publish it ...in Japanese of course😁

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