{"product_id":"hans-werner-henze-royal-winter-music-stefano-grondona-gu","title":"Hans Werner Henze: Royal Winter Music - Stefano Grondona (gu","description":"Hans Werner Henze. Royal Winter Music. Two Sonatas on Shakespearean Characters marks an  important stage in Stefano Grondona's recording career: after years of sustained engagement with it  and public performances (roughly from 1982 to 1995), the musician returns to confront this pivotal  work of twentieth-century guitar repertoire. At the same time, in the manner and outcomes of this  traversal, the record bears witness to an oblique and little-trodden modality of approaching  compositions that, like this one, embody peculiarities and contradictions of the more cultured guitar  repertoire.  The physiognomy of this work, as Marek Orszulik argued (Aspects of the Historical Development of  Repertoire for the Guitar. A Case Study of Hans Werner Henze's Royal Winter Music, Sonatas on  Shakespearean Characters, University of Alberta, 2016), reconciles the sonata, understood as a genre  of large-scale form and monumental architecture, with the Character Piece, a rhapsodic, dramatic,  and psychological composition. In the introductions to the printed editions published by Schott,  Henze makes clear that, through the Royal Winter Music cycle, he intended to engage with a series  of key characters from Shakespearean theatre (to whom the different movements of the sonatas are  dedicated), who appear and disappear through the guitar's sonic textures.","brand":"Stradivarius","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":52411825586456,"sku":"8011570373670","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/4517553-3605953.jpg?v=1784289408","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/hans-werner-henze-royal-winter-music-stefano-grondona-gu","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}