{"id":168,"date":"2013-06-25T08:40:53","date_gmt":"2013-06-25T08:40:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=168"},"modified":"2013-07-04T18:27:14","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T18:27:14","slug":"biberians-sonata-2-finally-recorded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Biberian&#8217;s Sonata 2 finally recorded!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Now here&#8217;s a thing. This is a piece I have loved for 28 years. I played it when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilbertbiberian.com\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Gilbert Biberian<\/a>\u00a0first wrote it. It has had a chequered history <!--more-->and the composer has revised it a couple of times. I love it &#8211; it is a solo guitar piece of monumental proportions and is kaleidoscopic in scope, both thematically and structurally. This is just the first movement! The third is a beautiful set of unobvious and virtuosic variations.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The key of B minor rules! It is one my favourite key on the guitar (other than Eb, which has interesting resonant harmonics) but can be prone to out of tune Ds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thank you Cristiano Porqueddu for working so hard on this to give it the polish it deserves and thank you Gilbert for bringing it into being.<\/p>\n<p>[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/85455797&#8243; params=&#8221;&#8221; width=&#8221; 100%&#8221; height=&#8221;166&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/novecento-guitar-sonatas\/gilbert-biberian-sonata-ii-mov \" target=\"_blank\">Link<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now here&#8217;s a thing. This is a piece I have loved for 28 years. I played it when \u00a0Gilbert Biberian\u00a0first wrote it. It has had a chequered history<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":247767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4,77],"tags":[62,58,63,973,59,61,60],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":29,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":171,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions\/171"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/247767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}