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Manuel Ponce Sonata Mexicana Andres Segovia
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Manuel Ponce's Sonata Mexicana played by Andres Segovia. Manuel Ponce wrote this music in 1925 and it was the first time he ever wrote music for the guitar (more specifically, the third movement is the first thing he ever wrote for guitar). This music is based on Mexican folklore and many melodies belong to the mexican musical culture. As the coming events showed, later on Manuel Ponce became the founder of the Mexican musical nationalism, as the first in exploring the national music. • I consider it a duty of every composer to ennoble the music of his homeland giving artistic form, coating it with the garb of polyphony and lovingly preserving the popular music which is an expression of the national soul. • This sonata was initially written for Andres Segovia. Manuel Ponce and Andres Segovia met when the latter played a concert in Mexico. After the concert Segovia read a review by someone who admired his music a lot. So willing to know who was that person who could appreciate the subtleties and power of the guitar, he realised that it was Manuel Ponce, one of the leading composers of Mexico. After this incident, Segovia wrote a letter to Ponce to make an appointment and star knowing each other, maybe hoping that Ponce will write something for him or maybe he just ordered the appointment disinterestedly, who knows, but after the first contact between both they agreed that Ponce would write something for the guitar and that he will send it to him. The composition was this third movement of the Sonata Mexicana, the first piece Ponce ever wrote for guitar. From there he eventually wrote three more pieces which resulted in the composition of the beautiful Sonata Mexicana. • Here Segovia is playing a version of his own. He changed a lot of passages of this sonata and he improved it. This man had the ability to complete to the fullest previously written music for the guitar, and so he did with this sonata. Probably this didn't work in all the cases, but these sonatas by Ponce played by him are really something else. This is a good example of his ability to polish music. Once you listen the original version and this, you won't never listen the original version in the same way. • For these kind of Segovia records, we understand how essential figure he is for the classical guitar world. • I don't really know when did he created his version of this sonata, but this recording was made in 1967 with his Ramirez guitar, when Segovia was 75 years old. • These are the different movements: • -1. Bailecito del Revozo (Allegro moderato) 0:00 • -2. Lo Que Sueña El Ahuehuete (Andantino affettuoso) 4:14 • -3. Intermedio Tapatío (Allegreto, quasi serenata) 7:33 • -4. Cantos Y Bailes Aztecas (Allegretto un poco vivace) 9:33 • I do not own the rights of this recording, if there's the need to remove it, i'll do it. But please let me share this beautiful music. I think this is too beautiful to be hiden behind the laws of the copyright. I believe it's appropiate to let these kinds of old and unknown records of music which are masterpieces to be of public domain... • (SGAE_CS seems to own part of the record, so that's it.)
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