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During the années folles, Paris was both a temporary home base for many artists and a formidable creative laboratory, mixing jazz, Latin music and neo-classicism. The guitar benefited from this effervescence, expanding its repertoire and winning its place in the concert hall. For this album, Brazilian guitarist Pedro Aguiar brings together the figures of this artistic revival: Villa-Lobos and his indispensable 12 Études, the cornerstone of the repertoire, with its multiple influences, De Falla, Germaine Tailleferre, but also the Mexican composer Manuel Ponce, with a clin d’oeil to Bach, and Gustave Samazeuilh. Pedro Aguiar delivers a precise, spirited reading of this programme, from which the shadow of the legendary Andrés Segovia is not absent, combining virtuosity and interiority.

During the années folles, Paris was both a temporary home base for many artists and a formidable creative laboratory, mixing jazz, Latin music and neo-classicism. The guitar benefited from this effervescence, expanding its repertoire and winning its place in the concert hall. For this album, Brazilian guitarist Pedro Aguiar brings together the figures of this artistic revival: Villa-Lobos and his indispensable 12 Études, the cornerstone of the repertoire, with its multiple influences, De Falla, Germaine Tailleferre, but also the Mexican composer Manuel Ponce, with a clin d’oeil to Bach, and Gustave Samazeuilh. Pedro Aguiar delivers a precise, spirited reading of this programme, from which the shadow of the legendary Andrés Segovia is not absent, combining virtuosity and interiority.

Patrick Langot, Alexis Cardenas and Alejandro Sandler, conducting the Orchestre de Lutetia, are united by a shared love of Argentine music and take us on a voyage of discovery.Three premiered works by composers Gerardo Di Giusto, Gabriel Sivak and Alejandro Iglesias Rossi revolve around Ginastera and his Variaciones concertantes for orchestra.Drawing on the incredible artistic variety of the region, their works navigate between folk mysticism (Llorando silencios and Quechua tradition), jazz (Alas), learned music and primitivism (Descaminos) to explore the full breadth of the Argentine soul, whose voice is conveyed with ardent sincerity by Patrick Langot’s cello, Alexis Cardenas’s violin and the orchestra.