Leo Brouwer (b. 1939)
is featured at AfriClassical.com
is featured at AfriClassical.com
May 5, 2016
Contemporary Cuban composer, conductor and guitarist Leo Brouwer is
one of the eminent writers for music of the classical guitar and his
works are performed by guitarists world-wide.
He wrote a guitar sonata for Julian Bream in 1990 and played in the premier of El Cimeron,
a modernist work by German composer Hans Werner Henze in 1970 in
Berlin. He combines folk influences with modernist tendencies as a
composer and is known for bringing the Afro-Cuban tradition to the fore
in his guitar compositions. But, Leo Brouwer is also a fan of the
Beatles.
In 1986 Brouwer wrote From Yesterday to Penny Lane, Seven Beatles Transcriptions for guitar and strings. He considers their music the folk songs of today. On the next Fretworks, I'll have this tuneful suite in a recording by Finnish guitarist Timo Korhonen and the Tampere Philharmonic.
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