Gaëlle Solal

A tribute to The Book of Sand by the Argentinian writer José Luis Borges, in which he imagines an infinite library and, above all, a book that contains all the other books.

To free himself from his obsession with this book, the narrator decides to lose it. 

This programme explores emblematic scores written or transcribed for the guitar. Each one could be the imaginary score, the single sand score that contains all the others, that provides the keys to an exploration of the instrument.

"He told me that his book was called the Book of Sand, because neither this book nor the sand has a beginning or an end."

Jean Sébastien BACH
Partita No. 2 BWV 1004 Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gigue
Chaconne

Mario CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Sonata

Alberto GINASTERA
Sonata op.47