http://crgrecordings.com/ from: OP. 52, "FANTAISIE VILLAGEOISE" – publ. 1832 Sor Op. 52 "Rustic" Fantasia played by Lawrence Johnson. FREE score download: http://www.crgrecordings.com/Sor-PDF-Files/Op.%2052.pdf FREE mp3 and score downloads of the Complete Solo Guitar music of Sor: http://www.crgrecordings.com CDs and mp3s for sale: http://www.cdbaby.com/Artist/LawrenceJohnson ANNOTATION: Rustic Fantasia (Fantasie Villageoise) Op. 52 - This three movement work, like the Op. 30 Fantasia, is dedicated to Sor’s great friend, colleague and countryman, Dionisio Aguado and is one of Sor’s most unusual pieces. It opens with a haunting, rural-tinged, landler-like Andantino in A minor. The next bridge section is entitled Appel (roll-call, muster) and is done entirely in natural harmonics. This moves into the second movement which is a fantastic country dance in 6/8 time and in the tonic major, which works up to a furious and frenzied pace and abruptly stops, seemingly midway. The following finale in C is entitled Priere (Prayer). To my mind it is one of the most haunting things to come from Sor’s pen, with many special guitaristic effects such as unisons (in imitation of chant?), natural harmonics of the sixth overtone (in imitation of the tolling of bells?). Indeed one cannot help but wonder what sort of program Sor might have had in mind when writing this intriguing and totally unknown work LAWRENCE JOHNSON