http://crgrecordings.com/ from: OP. 54, CONCERT PIECE – publ. 1832 Sor Op. 54 Morceau de Concert played by Lawrence Johnson. FREE score download: http://www.crgrecordings.com/Sor-PDF-Files/Op.%2054.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: Morceau de Concert, Op. 54 This work is similar in form to Op. 7, 10, 12, 16, 20, 30, and 46. After Op. 46, Sor’s Fantasias do not contain variations and perhaps that is why he gave this work (which indeed does contain variations) a different title. It, perhaps more than any other work represents Sor the classicist, with the perfectly formed set of variations, in absolute harmony with Sor the sentimental romanticist, with the wide intervallic leaps etc. of perfumed romantic melody. Of special note is the exquisite 3rd variation. One must remember that Sor wrote this work in the 1830s when the instrumental variation form had, for the most part, degenerated into the bombastic showy operatic paraphrases of Liszt, Thalberg etc. This work, like many others from Sor of this period, concludes with a brilliant concert waltz. LAWRENCE JOHNSON