{"product_id":"759763","title":"Jerome Ducharme - Jerome Ducharme - Guitar Recital [CD]","description":"Brand New From Reputable UK Company With 30 Years Experience In Retail, Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.\u003cbr\u003eAll items shipped within 3 working days of payment.\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that all our DVDs are Region 2.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePlease note that not all audio CDs are shrink-wrapped fom the factory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJérôme Ducharme: Guitar Recital Matthew Dunne has a distinguished reputation as a guitarist.  A pupil of Bruce Holzman at Florida  State University and of Aaron Shearer at the North Carolina School of the Arts,  he was also awarded a scholarship for the Banff Centre for Fine Arts, combining  his skills in classical and jazz performance. He is head of the guitar  programme at the University of Texas at San Antonio  and holds a doctorate from the University  of Texas  at Austin in  classical and jazz performance. His Appalachian Summer was written for  the 2005 Guitar Foundation of America Competition, held at Oberlin. The work  makes the expected varied demands on a performer, opening with gentle lyricism,  before moving to a section of great rapidity. A slower section, which explores  the singing quality of the instrument in the mood of the opening, leads to a  final return of the rapid virtuosity heard in the second section of a work that  is both challenging to a performer and pleasing to a listener.  Born in Québec in 1938, Jacques Hétu studied piano, harmony  and Gregorian chant at the University   of Ottawa  with Jules Martel before entering the Conservatoire de Montréal in 1956, to  study there with Clermont Pépin, Jean Papineau-Couture and Isabelle Delorme. In  the summer of 1959 he attended the Berkshire   Music Center  at Tanglewood, where he studied with Lukas Foss. Awarded the Prix d'Europe in 1961,  he travelled to Paris,  studying composition there with Henri Dutilleux and analysis with Olivier Messiaen.  Returning to Québec in 1963, he served in various academic positions at the  Université Laval and the Université de Montréal, followed, from 1979 to 2000,  by the Université du Québec à Montréal, where he was head of the music  department from 1980-82 and 1986-88. Awarded various honours, he has been  prolific as a composer. His guitar Suite, Op. 41, was written in 1986. In five relatively short  movements, it opens with an angular Prélude. This is followed by a  gentle Nocturne, with the Ballade undertaking a more dramatic  exploration of the material. Rêverie makes use of the characteristic  intervals of guitar tuning and the Suite ends with a movement that  initially makes a strong contrast, its meditative heart preceded and followed  by music of greater rapidity.  A leading figure in the music of Catalonia,  Joan (Juan) Manén was born in Barcelona  in 1883. From the age of three he studied the piano with his father, making very  rapid progress. He started to learn the violin at the age of five and four  years later appeared in Latin America,  giving his first concert in 1898 in Europe, where  he was on occasion accompanied by Granados. His contemporary reputation was  primarily as a virtuoso violinist. He showed equal precocity, however, as a  composer, an art in which he was largely self-taught. His first opera,\u003cp\u003eAppalachian Summer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePrelude\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNocturne\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBallade\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReverie\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinal\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFantasie-Sonata, Op.A22\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFandango\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePassacaglia\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eZapateado\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEsordio\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eScherzo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCanto\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFinale\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHomenaje Pour 'Le Tombeau De Claude Debussy'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chalkys.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55145714712961,"sku":"759763","price":14.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0056\/8043\/1219\/files\/51TG1-x6uCL._SL1500.jpg?v=1767820701","url":"https:\/\/chalkys.com\/products\/759763","provider":"Chalkys.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}