{"id":467,"date":"2013-07-18T21:52:31","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T21:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geraldgarcia.com\/wordpress\/?p=467"},"modified":"2013-07-18T22:05:10","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T22:05:10","slug":"concerto-de-mars-jacques-bondon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/geraldgarcia.com\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"Concerto de Mars &#8211; Jacques Bondon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rarity &#8211; it&#8217;s piece I used to listen to a lot on an LP.<br \/>\nIt is performed by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.konradragossnig.com\/en\/bio\/biography3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Konrad Ragossnig<\/a>\u00a0and the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux and is by the impressionist\/eclectic French composer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Bondon\" target=\"_blank\">Jacques Bondon.<br \/>\n<\/a>It&#8217;s great to hear it forty years later.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.durand-salabert-eschig.com\/album_photo\/images\/bondon_03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.durand-salabert-eschig.com\/album_photo\/images\/bondon_03.jpg\" width=\"354\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fr.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jacques_Bondon\" target=\"_blank\"> <!--more--><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The introduction is colourfully orchestrated leaving the listener to wonder how the guitar could fit into such a grand scheme. The soloist enters, a lone voice picking up the rhythm set by the orchestra. This is no Concierto de Aranjuez! This could be music for a science fiction film&#8230;but importantly, it features the guitar.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/03-jmmOOaQE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J90ipWm5Ew0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g54Rj5fLyvg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Apparently the Concerto was written for Segovia, along with another guitar piece, Swing No.2.<br \/>\nI imagine these are pieces the great guitarist decided to leave in the archive!<br \/>\nBondon has also written a chamber work,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allmusic.com\/composition\/les-folklores-imaginaires-for-flute-violin-guitar-mc0002542068\">Les Folklores imaginaires, for flute, violin &amp; guitar<br \/>\n<\/a>By all accounts he was a bit of a maverick and began his artistic career as a designer and painter. His musical works reflect the colour and light of painting in their use of timbre and orchestration.<br \/>\nHere are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.musiquecontemporaine.fr\/fr\/search?disp=all&amp;query=Jacques+Bondon&amp;exp_inl=on&amp;exp_aud=on&amp;so=ta\" target=\"_blank\">several more pieces<\/a> by this intriguing composer.<\/p>\n<p>Jacques Bondon was not the only French composer who was inspired by the playing of Segovia &#8211; here is an incomplete list of composers and their pieces in no particular order<\/p>\n<p>Francis Poulenc (Sarabande, Embarquement pour Cyth\u00e8re), Georges Auric (Hommage \u00e0 Mudarra), Andr\u00e9 Jolivet (Deux \u00e9tudes de Concert, S\u00e9r\u00e9nade), Darius Milhaud (Segoviana), Jean Fran\u00e7aix (Concerto, Serenata), Jacques Ibert (Entr&#8217;acte pour flute et guitar), Albert Roussel (Segovia), Henri Sauget (Soliloque), Henri Tomasi (Muletier des Andes, Concerto pour Guitare et Orchestre), Jacques Charpentier (Etudes, Concerto pour Guitare et Orchestre \u00e0 Cordes), Claude Bolling (Concerto pour Guitare Classique et Piano Jazz. Concerto pour Guitare, Fl\u00fbte et Piano), Jacques Cast\u00e9r\u00e8de (Hommage aux Pink Floyd, Rhapsodie, Concerto pour Guitare et Orchestre Symphonique).<br \/>\nThere are many more now coming to light with the publication of Segovia&#8217;s archives and a rummage around the Max Eschig archives as well.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.konradragossnig.com\/en\/bio\/biography3.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Konrad Ragossnig<\/a>\u00a0didn&#8217;t say much about the Concerto when he stayed at my house in Oxford \u00a0in the 70s. However he declared &#8220;I like Oxford&#8221;!<\/p>\n<p>Maybe I should have learned a bit more German before his visit!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a rarity &#8211; it&#8217;s piece I used to listen to a lot on an LP. It is performed by\u00a0Konrad Ragossnig\u00a0and the Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux and is by the impressionist\/eclectic French composer\u00a0Jacques Bondon. 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