Buono, Emanuele

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Composer: Rodrigo, Joaquin

Invocacion y danza

Buono, Emanuele

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Guitar: Buono, Emanuele

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Year of Production: 2014

Playing Time: 00:09:02

Catalogue Number: NVF0128

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Invocacion y Danza (Homenaje a Manuel de Falla) dedicated to the Venezuelan guitarist, Alirio Diaz, won First Prize in the 1961 Coupe International de Guitare, held in Paris. The French magazine Combat described the work as 'a page full of song, poetry, Mediterranean finesse, and elegant writing'.

From a subtle opening of harmonics and fragments of arpeggios, the Invocacion flowers into an intricate pattern of melody and broken chords in which delicacy of effect is matched by clarity and complexity. The Danza is the Andalusian polo, a reminder of the last of Manuel de Falla's Seven Popular Spanish Songs. After the rhythmic opening bars, the music develops into passages of tremolo and brilliant showers of demisemiquavers, the tremolo returning eventually in an extended section. The piece closes with
sparse harmonics, a fleeting but expressive reference to a theme from Falla's ballet, El Amor Brujo, and a final murmuring arpeggio.