This performance of "Vals Op 8 No4" by Agustin Barrios Mangore was an item in his London debut concert on March 19th 2024 at the famous Trinity School, Croydon London.

Gabriel Bianco is considered to be one of nowadays’s finest classical guitarists. Gabriel has won first prize in several international competitions, has performed in over fifty countries spanning every continent, and has recorded 8 CDs.
ADAMI Classic Revelation in 2011 as well as first prize competing in Sernancelhe (Portugal, 2005), Ile de Ré (France, 2006), Gitarre Forum Wien (Austria, 2006), “Silesian Autumn” in Tychy (Poland, 2006) , “Hubert Käppel” in Koblenz (Germany, 2007), Barbezieux (France, 2007), Guitar Foundation of America (United States of America, 2008), “Fundación Gredos san Diego” in Madrid (Spain, 2011), “ Andrés Ségovia” in Almuñecar (Spain, 2012).
Today, he directs the higher education at the “Conservatorium van Amsterdam” (Netherlands), he gives individual lessons there.

Agustin Barrios Mangore (1855-1944) was a Paraguayan classical guitar virtuoso and composer. He composed over 300 works for solo guitar and made over 30 recordings, including what may have been the first recording of a classical guitarist on vinyl record. For many years after Barrios's death, his life and works were remembered only in his native Paraguay. However, beginning in the 1970s, his music found a wider audience thanks to the performances of Australian guitarist John Williams and American guitarist Richard Stover. Today, the music of Barrios is now a large part of the classical guitar repertory.

Vals Op. 8, No. 4 is one of the most often played, recorded, and performed of Barrios works. Also called "Vals Brillante," it was composed in Paraguay in 1923. Formally speaking, this waltz is also one of the most elaborate compositions left to us by Barrios, with a structure that contains 4 parts in addition to an introduction (played twice) and a coda, at the center of which sits an ingeniously brilliant and intricate 'Campanella' – a compositional texture built of flowing arpeggios that imitate the sounds of bells. The light-hearted, yet operatic flow of its musical narrative, make the Vals Op. 8 No. 4 a significant contribution to the guitar repertoire, and it offers us a window to the music of Paraguay during the 1920s, where the influence of European music mixes with the flair and exuberance of the Paraguayan folklore.

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Recorded live at Trinity School, Croydon, London UK on 19th March 2024, by Andrew Keeping
www.keepingmusic.co.uk
www.keepingmedia.co.uk

Equipment:
DPA 4006 stereo matched pair, into RME BabyFace pro. Edited on Cubase DAW.
Filmed on Lumix GH6 and GH5, into Atamos Shogun.


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