Garcia Lorca

"Souvent, en fin de repas, dans les meilleurs dîners entre amis, l'un de nous a pu prendre un livre et faire ce cadeau de beauté, lire un morceau choisi, une part de lui-même, un auteur révéré. …

The Spanish poet Federico García Lorca, who sang the gipsy people in works like 'Bodas de sangre' or poetic works such as 'Romancero gitano' or 'Poema del cante jondo', has been one of the most recognized in playing music his creations. Particularly gypsy flamenco singers returned the poet their musical contribution to the description of the culture of a people and culture gypsy flamenco. Singing, clapping and guitar, combining pure flamenco and musical miscegenation, weave a deserved recognition of Lorca.

The first joint album from countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and guitarist Thibaut Garcia, À sa guitare takes it's name from a song by the 20th century French composer Francis Poulenc. But it's frame of reference is extraordinarily wide - both culturally and stylistically. It's 22 tracks range across 400 years and music by composers and songwriters from France, Britain, Austria, Italy, Spain, Brazil, Argentina and the USA.

What would happen if the dense yet lyrical imagery of Garcia Lorca's Romancero Gitano was woven into the aural tapestry of bassist Renaud Garcia-Fons' offering, that traverses Europe, the Mediterranean, the Middle East and America? A bewitching mix of flamenco, Arabic, jazz and Latin-American music would collide, resulting in a perfect offering such as La Linea del Sur. This imaginary journey through the global south is truly mesmerizing.

The music of Spain has exercised an exotic fascination, but often in forms adapted by foreign composers. Manuel de Falla is representative of a group of Spanish composers who won international recognition. He was born in 1876 in Cádiz, where he first studied, moving later to Madrid and then to Paris, returning to Madrid when war broke out in 1914. Strongly influenced by the traditional Andalusian cante jondo, he settled in Granada, where his friends included the poet Federico García Lorca.