Interviu Ivonne Armant

After George Gulyás recent records, including the critically acclaimed "Complete Lute Works for guitar" on Proprius/Naxos is now a new release entirely dedicated to music by Benjamin Britten. All the works in which the guitar is included with and performed together with the mezzo-soprano Ivonne Fuchs. On the album presents a solo piece Nocturnal op 70, one of the guitar literature's most important works. The piece reflects the various stages of insomnia, where the ambiguous theme of John Dowland, Come heavy sleep, hint at how sleep, or death, finally enters as a liberator.

Periodically, plaintive exclamations about the death of romance are heard, but the noble art of dressing love, imagination and longing in words and tone never becomes unfashionable and lives to the highest degree.