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Sor | Les Deux Amis op. 41 | Patrik Kleemola & Timo Korhonen, guitars

“The honors of the evening were for Messieurs Aguado and Sor. It is impossible, unless you have heard them, to get a good idea of the talent of these two guitarists.” La Romance : journal de musique. 28th of February 1835 Fernando Sor and Dionisio Aguado were the most famous Spanish guitarists in the French capital during the 1830s performing duets together in concerts and living at Hotel Favart, which was (and still is) located near the Opéra right in the musical center of Paris. They were well-connected to the musical circles of Paris and their performances (among others one organized by Rossini in 1829) were received very favourably as the review from 1835 at the beginning shows. The competition among guitarists in Paris during the heyday of guitar's popularity in the 1820s-30s was quite intense. This can also be seen in Sor's Methode pour la guitare (1830) in veiled and sometimes less veiled commentaries about his colleagues. Napoleon Coste commented years later in his preface to his much revised edition of the Sor method: “The success of this great artist did not keep him from the gaze of envious critics. The harassment that he had to endure from ignorant colleagues who did not understand him embittered his spirit, and it was under these adverse perceptions that he wrote the text of his method...”. However, in Aguado Sor found a friend and colleague with whom he stayed in close relation till the very end of his life. This is demonstrated in Aguado's own copy of the last published work by Sor (Souvenir de Russie op. 63) with a text in Sor's hand “á su Amigo D. Aguado”. Aguado in his will donated some money to the poor house of Asilo de San Bernardino, where Sor's brother Carlos died a year before Aguado in 1848. The concerts in Paris or London 1830s were not solo recitals like nowadays but a very colourful mixture of different combinations of different instruments, and usually a performer had one chance to shine and impress the audience during the evening. I think this work in question, Les Deux Amis Fantaisie for two guitars op. 41 written by Sor and dedicated to Aguado, would have been quite an optimal warhorse for these kind of evening concerts. A broad and festive introduction introducing Don Fernando Sor and Don Dionisio Aguado and not without hints of Spanish flavours in the music. A cheerful theme, probably an original by Sor, followed with variations sometimes funny or virtuosic and at times with a more emotional touch like in the minor variation. Then there's a long coda before the Mazurka (the real hit dance in Paris at the time), both filtered with occasional Spanish flavours. It's also interesting that Sor marked the other guitar part “SOR” and the other “AGUADO”, both reflecting the personal technical approach of the both players. In this performance I have an honor to play the Sor's part and Don Timo Korhonen plays Aguado's part... Hope you enjoy the performance!