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his new edition by Ricardo Iznaola of this masterpiece includes a thorough biographical essay by co-editor Angelo Gilardino, as well as a
beautiful photographic facsimile of the composer's definitive, clean-copy
manuscript. Three language edition (English, Spanish and Italian).An indispensable musical resource for all of those that admire Mr. Iznaola's path-breaking world-premiere recording of the Sonata, also available from IGW in The Icarus Collection.
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From a formal standpoint, Antonio José's Sonata is one of the most ambitious works written for the guitar during the first half of the 20th century.
It is one of the few examples of "grand form" in the Spanish guitar repertoire. From the same era, only Joan Manén's grossly underrated Fantasia-Sonata, op. A-22 offers a formal discourse of comparable magnitude, albeit in the wake of very different compositional and aesthetic premises.
While the latter presents a single movement that exploits the compositional principle of the grand variation or "thematic" metamorphosis (after the example inherited through Berlioz, Liszt and R. Strauss), the Sonata by Antonio José follows in the path of the other form of post-romantic cyclical composition, accepting the scheme of four well-defined movements that are nonetheless unified by recurring harmonic-thematic elements, in the manner of César Franck or Vincent D'Indy.
Ricardo Iznaola, 1998
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