Raphaël Feuillâtre / Eduardo Eguëz

Presented by Philippe Maillard Productions (L-2-R-22-123841/3-22-12385) Raphaël Feuillâtre, Eduardo Eguëz, Vihuela, MILNN lute & guitar, ORTIZ, SANZ, ALBENIZ, TARREGA, PIAZZOLLA... Pavanas, Jcarcaras, Canarios, Fandango, Folias, Tarantelas, Milongas and Tangos... The guitar has gone through the centuries constantly reinventing itself. In turn intimate and contemplative, then virtuoso and festive, it plays with the boundaries between aristocratic salons and popular circles. Historically, it continues the tradition of older instruments such as the vihuela, which originated in the sixteenth century in the Iberian Peninsula. Close relative of the lute that triumphed everywhere else in Europe, it inspired a refined repertoire to composers like Alonso Mudarra or Luis de Milnn. When the baroque guitar gradually gained prominence at the end of the century, it opened up to popular practices. The work of Gaspar Sanz offers a vast panorama of the styles of the time and reveals a deep cultural mix, nourished in particular by the influences of the Nouveau Monde (of which also attests the Codex Saldivar, manuscript discovered in Mexico). However, it was in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that the guitar reached one of its most successful expressions, especially in Spain where the Albéniz, Falla, Rodrigo and Granados gave it a voice that was both nostalgic and solar. Two virtuosos and poets of plucked strings gather here to celebrate the star instrument of the Iberian world.