Feb 01 2009
MGS 3, Sor & Montserrat
My name, “Montserrat, comes from a magic mountain located not far from Barcelona. It’s a Mountain formed by conglomeratic rock, an infrequente type of rock caracterized by strange forms that erosion produces on it.
But it’s not only that. It’s also a “holy” place in many senses as music is. The choir, of its monastry has been, along th history, a major place for music studies. One of its relevants pupils was Fernando (or Ferran) Sor, most prominent XIX Century guitarist, wich acquired a solid musical education as a boy-choir and, I’m sure, the spirituality that fill his works. This same choir is still teaching music at higest level.
Few years after Sor left the Monastry, it was destroyed by the Napoleonic army who had come to Spain to bring culture and progress. That same war forced Sor to the exile, as he was one of the so called “afrancesados”, or supporters of the new Monarchy imposed by the Frenchs. He lived in Pareis, then in London and Sant Petersburg, were he lived a passionate romance with a russian dancer… but this is another story.
Here you have a litle session, without thecnical comments, played with a romantic guitar.
(you can find the same piece but with some technical comments here)
