Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

Performers: Asaka Quartet, Francisco Correa - Guitar PROGRAM: Seurat’s Bathers From Wynwood Walls (2023) , by Stephen Goss

Seurat’s Bathers from Wynwood Walls (2023), by Stephen Goss Wynwood Walls, for guitar and string quartet, draws on 9 artworks which lend their titles to the 9 connected sections of the quintet. In performance, the artworks can be projected onto a screen behind the ensemble. The movements are organised in pairs, circling out from a still centre. The two sections that bookend the piece are Bathers at Asnières, which suggests Seurat’s iconic painting, and Seurat’s Bathers which evokes Howard Hodgkin’s colourful reworking of the Seurat.

Wynwood Walls was commissioned for Mesut Özgen by the Miami International GuitART Festival through a grant from the American National Endowment for the Arts. The first performance took place at the WPAC Concert Hall, Miami, on 23rd February 2023. Francisco Correa has recorded the work with the ASAKA String Quartet on Landscape and Memory (Deux-Elles 1202 2024) – A triple album of Stephen Goss’s recent orchestral, chamber, and solo pieces, with and without guitar. Release Date – 18th October 2024.

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