Monologues
Wed, 05 Feb
|Bucharest Guitar Festival
Isn't a “Monologue" having actually a dialogue with yourself?
Time & Location
05 Feb 2025, 19:00 EET – 08 Feb 2025, 23:00 EET
Bucharest Guitar Festival, Bucharest, Romania
About the event
“Monologues” aims to deliver the dialogue between the composer, performer and the instrument, like an actor delivering the most powerful lines, the solo guitar becomes a storyteller, reflecting a personal connection to the world around us today. “Monologues” is a mix of electric and acoustic sounds, early and modern works, whose diversity speak to our own times. This project is a recital made for three guitars (romantic, classical and electric), and one guitarist. It is a journey through time. It includes works by the Renaissance composer John Dowland, J.S.Bach in arrangements for romantic guitar (lute like), a tribute to the "Segovian" repertoire presenting two masterpieces for classical guitar by two non-guitarists composers of the 20th century, Alexandre Tansman and Castelnuovo-Tedesco, as well as the world premiere of two new works dedicated to Dimitris by Leo Brouwer and Belle Chen, followed by arrangements of Chick Corea's famous children’s songs for electric…