The wonderful website ‘This is Classical Guitar’ run by Bradford Werner gave a wonderful shout out to ‘Volume 3 of the New Lullaby Project Drifting’ in a recent blog post. Check it out and take a listen to the free embed music. Let me know what you think!
Huge thanks to Bradford for his continued support of contemporary music and passing his great love of the guitar to people!
The Canadian classical music publication ‘The Whole Note’ has reviewed ‘Drifting’ in their latest edition!
“Another captivating addition to a significant series that continues to add miniature gems to the contemporary guitar repertoire.” – Terry Robbins
Volume 27 Issue 1 – September / October 2021https://kiosk.thewholenote.com/34
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On August 6, 2021 the UK label Stone Records will issue Aaron’s sixth studio album ‘Drifting, Volume 3 of the New Lullaby Project’. At the same time they will re-issue Aaron’s earlier studio albums dating back to his debut album in 2006 and two the first two volumes of the New Lullaby Project. After the
Aaron and Mark Stone at Symphony Hall, 2018
successful collaboration of the 2015 and 2018 releases ‘The Legend of Hagoromo‘ and ‘John. Cage. Guitar.‘, Aaron and label founder/director Mark Stone came to an agreement that the music and the audiences would be best served by expanding their relationship to these albums. A fourth volume of new lullabies is in the works!
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Passacaglia, is an arrangement I did for UK composer David Solomons in May of this year. It is a picturesque stroll down a cobblestone street where birds are dashing about, and the breeze runs through the hanging flowers in the balconies above. Not a lullaby!
Passacaglia by David Warin Solomons
Arranged for solo guitar and performed by Aaron Larget-Caplan
PROGRAM NOTE:
A passacaglia is a gentle stroll in triple time with a basso ostinato, which can vary. The word is an Italian term based on the Spanish words pasar and calle, indicating a walk down a street. The basso ostinato with its harmonic progressions is based on a sketch which David wrote back in 1973.
This version for guitar solo, arranged by Aaron is the latest of many versions (organ solo, flute sextet, flute and guitar, flute and strings).
VIDEO: youtu.be/O3BerGw6Qbc (not the same audio recording as found on Amazon and Bandcamp).
David Warin Solomons (b. 1953) is a self-taught composer specialising in lyrical styles for instrumental and vocal combinations in various modes including Whole tone, Dorian and Octatonic. He began composing in 1969, starting mainly with works for classical guitar solo and, voice and guitar and then progressing to choral, chamber and orchestral music.
He has also sung (alto) in various church and cathedral choirs, which has, to a certain extent, informed his music style.
For more information about David Warin Solomons and his compositions and arrangements, including audio clips and score samples, visit www.dwsolo.com (main catalogue site) and his youtube site www.youtube.com/dwsolo
Aaron Larget-Caplan continues his exploration of the lullaby with the third volume of 21st century guitar music with Drifting. The 15 solos for his New Lullaby Project were written between 2010 and 2020 by composers from four countries, and recorded in November 2020. All are world premiere recordings!
– May 2021
The Whole Note is a Canadien publication based in Toronto, Canada.
https://www.thewholenote.com/index.php/booksrecords2/booksrecords2-2
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan follows up his 2010 CD New Lullaby – 14 Enchanting Ways to Fall Asleep with Nights Transfigured – Vol.2 of the New Lullaby Project, a second collection of short pieces by 14 different composers written for Larget-Caplan between 2009 and 2020 (Stone Records 5060192781106 stonerecords.co.uk).
Don’t be misled by the title. Although there’s obviously a general sense of calm throughout the CD, this isn’t a disc of music for children but a fascinating collection of exquisite contemporary miniatures for classical guitar that explore a wide range of musical languages and often employ extended guitar technique, all of it beautifully played and recorded.
LISTEN AND PURCHASE THE ALBUM HERE: https://alcguitar.bandcamp.com/album/nights-transfigured
Nights Transfigured by Aaron Larget-Caplan“Nights Transfigured, Volume 2 of the New Lullaby Project by Aaron Larget-Caplan is an album filled with creativity, virtuosity, and beauty. It’s more than an album release, it’s a creative project that encourages interaction between the performing artist and composers but also between the compositions themselves. Each composer approaches the lullaby in a new creative way allowing the listener to engage with the album as a conceptual whole. From colourful sensitive phrasing to virtuosic execution of soothing new music textures, Aaron Larget-Caplan’s playing is exquisite. Highly recommended.”
The link includes a few words from me about the album.
Read the complete review at: https://www.thisisclassicalguitar.com/nights-transfigured-aaron-larget-caplan/
Happy New Year Fans of the New Lullaby Project!
New Lullaby Concert, 12/10/11, Francine Trester, Hayg Boyadjian, John McDonald, Martin Schreiner, Demetrius Spaneas, Patricia Julien and Jacob Mashak