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BACH 815

by Anatol Rivero

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Arka Archives is very happy to announce the release of the album ‘‘BACH 815’’ by Anatol Rivero, featuring the first guitar recording of Bach’s French Suite No.4 BWV815. This Suite, part of Bach’s six French Suites cycle, can be found here for the first time in a solo guitar arrangement by guitar virtuoso Anatol Rivero.

With this recording Anatol Rivero presents us Gitarre-Übung; a project that takes its name from “Clavier-Übung” (keyboard exercise) a common title for keyboard music collections in the 17th and 18th centuries later associated with Bach’s Clavier-Übung publications. In Gitarre-Übung, Anatol Rivero is transcribing, analyzing and studying major Bach keyboard works. Through the process of transferring Bach’s clavier counterpoint texture to the guitar many technical and musical decisions need to be addressed to overcome the guitar’s physical limitations

In words of the artist himself:

‘‘I was 14 or 15 when I first started to play Bach and it was life changing for me. I remember the feeling of practicing this music and not being able to stop playing it. I always knew that I would come back to this music sooner or later, what I didn’t suspect was that I would end up working mainly with the harpsichord works. The level of perfection and abstraction in this music is such that I’ve always had the feeling that it works beyond the instrument in which it is performed. I also believe that the guitar relates quite naturally with the harpsichord, a sort of far cousin that shares a similar principle with a different sonic palette.

The Bach heard here is a document of this adventure, an attempt to play an extremely demanding music for the guitar driven by the desire to experience it first-hand. This has been a tremendous journey: from trying to fit the music into the physical limits of the guitar to the incredible challenge of performing it and making it work; a labour of love inspired by the beauty and depth of this music.

I’ve included ‘Angélico’ from Federico Mompou’s ‘Música Callada’ (Silent Music) as a prelude to the suite. In concerts, Mompou’s piece has helped me achieve the optimal state for performing this music, working as a sort of mantra or magic formula. This is a free, almost improvised version of the piece’’.

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released November 24, 2023

Anatol Rivero: Classical Guitar.
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Andrés Vázquez Archdale at Arco del Valle Studio. Madrid April 2023.
Cover Photo: Alfredo Cáliz.
Anatol Rivero is also a skilled luthier and plays with the guitars he makes under the name of 'Fuentes y Rivero'.

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