Composer: Wenzeslaus Matiegka
Performer: David Starobin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Bridge
Catalogue: BCD9567
Release: 2022
Size: 692 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Guitar Sonata No. 1 in C Major, Op. 31
01. I. Allegro moderato
02. II. Menuetto. Moderato
03. III. Rondo. Allegretto
Guitar Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, Op. 31
04. I. Allegro maestoso
05. II. Menuetto. Moderato
06. III. Variations sur l’air Vive Henri IV
Guitar Sonata No. 3 in G Major, Op. 31
07. I. Allegro moderato
08. II. Menuetto. Allegro
09. III. Rondo. Un poco andantino con moto
Guitar Sonata No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 31
10. I. Allegro moderato
11. II. Scherzo. Allegro
12. III. Capriccio. Adagio cantabile
Guitar Sonata No. 5 in D Major, Op. 31
13. I. Allegro moderato
14. II. Menuetto. Allegro
15. III. Rondo. Allegro
Guitar Sonata No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 31
16. I. Allegro non molto
17. II. Scherzo. Allegro molto
18. III. Finale. Allegretto
Bridge Records is pleased to issue guitarist David Starobin’s final studio recording, W.T. Matiegka’s Six Sonatas, Op. 31, performed on a Viennese style guitar. Starobin regards Matiegka’s sonatas as “in their time, the pinnacle of expression on the guitar, offering the most detailed notation of both articulation and character – a clear window onto performance style in the era of Beethoven and Schubert.
Since Starobin’s retirement from the concert stage in 2018, the native New Yorker has kept a busy schedule, co-authoring with his wife Becky, the libretto of the operaThe Thirteenth Child (music by Poul Ruders); writing and directing the film, String Trio, Los Angeles 1946 (filmed in Arnold Schoenberg’s Los Angeles home); and serving as Director of Artists and Repertoire at Bridge Records. David Starobin teaches at the Manhattan School of Music and the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where he co-founded Curtis’s guitar program in 2011. A frequently honored figure, Starobin was called “arguably the most influential American classical guitarist of the 20th Century” (Soundboard), and was inducted into the Guitar Foundation of America’s “Hall of Fame” in 2011.