Hungarian classical guitarist Zsombor Sidoo performs Atemzüge für Thomas (Breaths for Thomas) by Wolfram Schurig (b.1967). This comes via Sidoo’s YouTube channel (go subscribe). Beautiful performance with excellent pacing, just enough to be spacious but also complete the sustained lines.
The last two times I’ve featured Sidoo he was playing Bach so it’s great to hear him in this contrasting style. Here’s a little bio of Schurig via ircam where the composer is quoted:
It was and still is less a question for me to elaborate a personal style or to consolidate a constraining musical language, whose vocabulary — once established — must be worked on with self-referential assiduity. Rather, it seems important to me to find a path in which musical perception and — on this basis — artistic experience always become different and, in the best case, always new.
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