Should it be “polonoise” as printed on the title page of the sheet music or “polonaise” as we know it?
Mauro Giuliani was a virtuoso guitarist who became very famous in Vienna. His Theme, Variations, and Polonaise 113 (65) was also known as Variations & Polonoise, Opus 65. Would a musicologist or Giuliani expert please tell me if it’s a typo or does Google know better?
The piano guitar version was a staple in our piano guitar repertoire, as we toured Spain in 2009 and the USA in 2010. We recorded it in our first CD Summer.
There are two blurry videos of this piece in our piano guitar duo performance in Ferrol, Spain in 2009.
In much of our repertoire, my piano version is a mere piano reduction for orchestra or string quartet. How does it feel to be made redundant by the “real thing” ?
Tonight, I walked into the Gilman Chapel for the first time. It’s a beautiful church just inside the main gates of Cedar Grove Cemetery in Dorchester, a part of Boston, Massachusetts. The concert series is new — the first of its kind. I could walk, jog, or cycle there. Very convenient for locals.
Quartet San Francisco (QSF) was testing the acoustics of the church. With my iPhone 7, I recorded a video of the four string players sightreading Giuliani’s Polonoise with Robert Bekkers, who gave the first concert in the series. It’s one of those rare occasions when I felt lucky to witness such virtuosity and spontaneity. And —- happy to be made redundant.
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