Sor | Andantino & Waltz (Six petites pièces faciles op. 32) | Patrik Kleemola plays Panormo (1838)

“ Miss Wainwright, a young English Lady, whose accurate reasoning, readiness of apprehension, the conviction that my precepts were the only ones that could enable her to obtain from the guitar the desired effects, and the little application that her other studies and the claims of society allowed her, produced a result so flattering to me, that in twenty-five lessons she played perfectly the six little pieces that I have dedicated to her.”
Fernando Sor (Méthode pour la guitare, 1830)

Sor published the Six petites pièces faciles op. 32 (1828) soon after arriving in Paris after several years in Russia. The work op. 32 was dedicated to “Miss Wainwright” who Sor considered one of the most talented students he had ever had (as can be seen above in the fragment from the Sor's method). The work is organized in three pairs according to the tonalities with an andante preceding a dance: 1. Andantino and 2. Waltz (E major), 3. Andante pastorale and 4. Mazurka (D major) and 5. Andante and 6. Galop (G major). The first one (Andantino) brings to my mind the world of the composer's early minuets from the Spanish period and Waltz has an elegance of the European salons of the 1820s.

Stay tuned for the following movements!

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Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Six petites piècas faciles op. 32
No. 1: Andantino
No. 2: Waltz
Patrik Kleemola, guitar

Guitar: Louis Panormo (1838)
Microphones: Stereo pair of DPA 4011a Cardioid microphones
Audio interface: Prism Sound Atlas
Videocameras: Canon EOS 200D
Location: Rymättylän kirkko

Produced by Patrik Kleemola