Steve Marsh calls it “an exquisite composition… I always find the melody line, albeit so simple, very moving-whether the solo version or the duet one.”ĥ. The best known of 22 short, diverse pieces Assad wrote-mostly for two guitars-called Suite ‘Summer Garden’ for the the Japanese film Natsu No Iwa. Written the year Assad’s first wife died, this is a “virtuosic ‘showpiece’ split into several segments of varying moods…pyrotechnic arpeggios, exciting rhythmic sections, abrupt mood swings from joyous to melancholic…” -Steve Marsh 11/05 Fantasia Carioca (1994), Dimitris Kotronakis CG writer Chris Dumigan lauds its “Debussyan whole tones and very French-sounding harmonies in many places.” The middle movement, “ Valseana,” is often performed alone.ģ. Following the same idea, he started the guitar solo with a three-note motif…suggesting that the notes continue to ring one over the other as they spread throughout the score using augmentations and fragmentations.” -Eduardo Minozzi Costa, U. “His wife at that time liked to paint aquarelles, drawings utilizing transparent watercolors and blended hues, and the spread of the colors on the canvas fascinated him. This three-movement work, which was a compulsory piece in the 2002 GFA, is still perhaps his most famous work. Assad states that when these pieces were conceived, he was very influenced by a repertoire of jazz and rock music that he used to listen to.”
This exciting and virtuosic work, writes João Paulo Figueirôa Da Cruz in his 2008 annotated bibliography of Assad’s work, “requires a great amount of energy, synchronism between both guitars, and great lyricism. The “Three Brazilian Scenes” was the first of his original pieces to be played in Brazil by the Assad Duo. Três Cenas Brasileiras (1984), played by Kupinski Guitar Duo
In some cases, we’ve included some remarks from the original CG reviews of the pieces, and from current remarks by CG writers and others.ġ. From the Summer 2017 issue of Classical Guitar | BY BLAIR JACKSONīelow are eight pieces by Sérgio Assad that give some sense of the range of his compositions, from angular, dissonant flights to searing, deeply felt melodies, unusual harmonies, interesting textural juxtapositions, and dazzling virtuoso passages.
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