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Gardens of Spain
A Santa Fe Christmas
Dancing Shadows
La Vida Breve
Hector Garcia
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Bill Baker
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Gardens of Spain
I first met and studied with Maestro Emilio Pujol in 1972 at his
Curso International de Guitarra, Laud, y Vihuela in Cervera (Spain). I had
studied his method under the direction of Maestro Hector Garcia (Pujol’s
assistant at the classes) at the University of New Mexico, where I became Hector
Garcia's assistant
and graduated with a classical guitar performance degree in music. I studied
with Pujol from 1973 -74 and in 1976.
Pujol’s preferred approach to playing the guitar was the fingertip method (vs.
playing with fingernails), used by both Francisco Tarrega and Fernando Sor. Rarely employed, this is the technique I use. Pujol’s work includes a 5-volume
method, Escuela Razonada de la Guitarra (Reasoned School for the Guitar). Volume
V is forthcoming. Pujol wrote the Dilemma of Timber on the guitar, a study
on the esthetics of sound on the guitar.
No other instrument enables this artistic choice. Pujol’s book The Dilemma of
Timber on the Guitar addressed this topic in detail. Gardens of Spain is
dedicated to his legacy.
-William D. Baker Copyright Ivy Lane Ventures LTD 2009
Homage to Scarlatti 4:14
La Libelula 1:11 (“The Dragonfly”, a musical story of a dragonfly attacking a
butterfly and its phrase by phrase relationship was told to me by Pujol at his
class.)
Homage to Chopin 2:16
Etude in A 2:59
Triquilandia (Land of Tricks) I II III
Jugando al Escondite 1:11 Cache Cache (Playing Hide and Go Seek)
Deuxieme Triquilandia
I. Oedipe et le Sphinx 1:00 (A Dialog Between Oedipus and the Sphinx)
II. Variation 1:31
III. Jeu :20
IV. La Plume de Perdreau :28 (The Partridge Feather)
V. Branle Bourguignon :57
Troisieme Triquilandia
I. Le petit Grenadier 1:03 (The Little Toy Soldier)
II. Cantilene :45
III. Valse 2:24
Variations sur un theme obsedant 13:05 7 variations and a finale on a theme by
Aguado.
Paisaje 4:18 (The unedited motif of Francesco Tarrega was expanded by Pujol
shortly after Tarrega died. Composed
beneath a group of pine trees and named “Landscape.”
Performed by William D. Baker