1. Prélude
2. Danse
3. Élégie
4. Toccata
About the Partita for solo guitar by Bernard Piris, by Eduardo Isaac…
A few years ago, I asked my friend Bernard Piris, maestro, concert performer and composer of rare elegance, to dedicate a work for solo guitar to me. And little by little, like a great goldsmith, he wrote a Partita in four movements, where nothing is superfluous and nothing is missing in its exquisite construction.
The work begins with a Prelude on a succession of campanela harmonies, a presentation of captivating sounds, in the style of the improvised introductions of the baroque lute.
The second piece, a Dance based on an ostinato of amalgamated measures, carries and pursues a restless and tense melody...
The following movement is a calm and meditative Elegy, of profound lyricism, crossed by a second, more animated theme which does not lose the beauty of the feelings.
We thus arrive at the fourth piece, brilliant and energetic, in a moto perpetuo of arpeggios, interrupted by sequences of accented chords... A piece of remarkable and relentless instrumental virtuosity!
Bernard's musical language evolves wonderfully, without limits, year after year. I had the pleasure of creating the Partita at the Drôme de Guitares festival in Valence (France), during which the piece Détours, for guitar orchestra, was also heard for the first time, and which includes a sincere tribute from Bernard to our mutual friend, the French guitarist Roland Dyens.
Eduardo ISAAC
