These two pieces were composed after the death of the guitarist Marcel
Dadi who was on board the Boeing which exploded on July 16, 1996. Notes
Indiscrètes is a sort of a tongue-in-cheek version of a theme by Marcel
Dadi (Nous Trois). Tristemusette was written some days following the
tragic accident, when the composer was still in a state of shock. Such
circumstances, one might have thought, would have given birth to
lugubrious and doleful music. But this was not to be. A musical form
much loved by Marcel unconsciously took shape, the valse, half-musette,
half-Venezuelan, somewhere between Paris and Caracas.
dyens.jpg (6157 bytes)Born on October 19, 1955, Roland Dyens started
studying the guitar at the age of 9. At 14, he joined the Ecole Normale
de Musique de Paris, in the class of the Spanish master Alberto Ponce
and graduted with high honors in 1976. Roland Dyens is a performer,
arranger, improviser and composer, simultaneously carrying on the double
career of Professor and concert artist. As a composer he wrote several
works for guitar solo, 2 octets, a concerto for guitar and string
orchestra (Concerto Métis), a concerto for guitar and ensemble of 21
guitars (Concerto en Si) as well as a guitar duo, Coté Nord, which he
played with Alberto Ponce in 1993 and which is brilliantly and
successfully performed by the famous Assad duo, to whom he dedicated
this work. His arrangements raise unanimous enthusiasm and shed new
light on the possibilities of the guitar (French songs, Round Midnight,
Berimbau, Bachianas Brasilieras Nº 5. etc.). Because of his unique
talent and the originality of his music, Roland Dyens is one of the most
innovative and complete musicians of his generation.
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