A delicious lunchtime concert of classical guitar. Samrat Majumder is a young guitarist who is clearly going places. He played an interesting programme of music spanning five centuries, although the 17th and 18th missed out in the jump from renaissance to classical/romantic periods.
We heard:
- Luys de Narváez – Canción del Emperador
- Alonso Mudarra – Fantasia No. 10
- Fernando Sor – Grand Solo Op. 14
- Enrique Granados – Valses poéticos
- Manuel de Falla – Homenaje ‘pour le tombeau de Claude Debussy’
- Antonio José – Guitar Sonata
- Encore – Isaac Albéniz – Granada (Serenata)
Here’s a lovely vid of Samrat, a couple of years ago, playing the charming Mudarra piece we heard.
After the gig, Janie and I floated a couple of doors down, to look at posh cookers. That hadn’t always been part of the plan, but that mission ended up fitting in with our plans very well indeed.
If you want to know more about Samrat, this video is a mini documentary/interview with him: