2016
XII Sonates del Pare
Antoni Soler
XII Sonates del Pare
Antoni Soler
Composer: Antonio Soler
Pianist: Sira Hernández
Label: Solfa Recordings
"Sira Hernández proposes a personal piano reading. Always prioritizing the search for the boundaries of freedom in the interpretation permitted by the score, on that extracts an insinuated expression wich make it almost imposible to stop listening to. It is easy to close your eyes, while the various sonatas are playing, it becomes inevitable to imagine the contrast that must have represented writing this music in the midst of the sober life as a Hieronymite monk, that Father Sole lead for about 40 years in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, and where here probably wrote almost all of the sonatas.
At this point in her extensive career as a concert pianist, Sira Hernández has chosen to make a genuinely musical, but strictly timeless reading of the music of this illustrious Olot, reaffirming in this way the character of leitemotif that the Catalan composers have had in their over 30 years of recordings, alternated with some of the greatest names in pianistic literature."
Extract from the text written by Joan Vives for the libretto of the CD 'XII Sonates del Pare Antoni Soler.'