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Pablo Sainz-Villegas

The Blue Album

Sony Classical
Release Date: June 9, 2023

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1 Erik Satie - Gymnopédie No. 1  
2 François Couperin - Les Barricades Mystérieuses  
3 Philip Glass - Orphée’s Bedroom  
4 Leo Brouwer - Canción De Cuna (Berceuse)  
5 Claude Debussy - Clair De Lune  
6 Sylvius Leopold Weiss - Passacaille  
7 Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1  
8 Domenico Scarlatti - Keyboard Sonata In D Minor  
9 Fernando Sor - Etude In E Minor  
10 Max Richter - A Catalogue Of Afternoons  
11 Claude Debussy - La Fille Aux Cheveux De Lin  
12 Sebastián Iradier - La Paloma  
13 Stanley Myers - Cavatina  
14 Ryuichi Sakamoto - Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence  
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“Blue stands for a particularly intimate mood,” says renowned Spanish guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas. And correspondingly his latest album is titled The Blue Album, which will be released by Sony Classical on 9 June 2023. “Blue symbolizes a mysterious intermediary realm: one thinks of the moment when the sun rises and night slowly withdraws,” Pablo Sainz-Villegas goes on to explain. These are exceptional moments, moments between silence and waking, between heaven and earth, between light and darkness. These are also the moments that spirit us away from the hectic routine of our everyday lives and that create an atmosphere of reverie and relaxation, allowing us time to slow down. All of this is reflected in Pablo Sainz-Villegas’s new programme.

Few composers have captured this mood so unmistakably in their music as the French composer Erik Satie, who is represented here by selections from his Gymnopédies and Gnossiennes. Debussy’s “Clair de lune” and “La fille aux cheveux de lin” are almost magical in their expressiveness: this is music that is filled with calm and with the power to enchant.

According to Pablo Sainz-Villegas, “this album brings together some of the most beautiful and most heartfelt melodies that have ever been written. All these pieces create a magical atmosphere, their colours create a mood, a mystery. The guitar whispers an invitation to the listener to explore and go to the most intimate part of your soul. It creates a moment to look inside and have a conversation with the essence of yourself. “

  • Centuries past pieces sound perfectly alongside recent fare on Pablo Sainz-Villegas - The Blue Album / textura
    Posted At: October 1, 2023
    textura writes….Classical guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas has appeared on some of the world's most renowned stages, recorded with prestigious orchestras, and performed to audiences in the thousands. He's played with the New York Philharmonic, the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the National Orchestra of Spain, and has played before an audience of 11,000 at Chicago's Grant...

  • Pablo Sainz-Villegas - The Blue Album references an intimate sense of longing and reflection / BBC Music Magazine
    Posted At: July 11, 2023
    “Blue stands for a particularly intimate mood,” says renowned Spanish guitarist Pablo Sainz-Villegas. And correspondingly his latest album is titled The Blue Album, which will be released by Sony Classical on 9 June 2023. “Blue symbolizes a mysterious intermediary realm: one thinks of the moment when the sun rises and night slowly withdraws,” Pablo Sainz-Villegas goes on to explain. These are exceptional mo...

  • Pablo Sainz-Villegas - The Blue Album is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: June 16, 2023
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  • Rockport ME's 'Bay Chamber' presents: Pablo Sainz-Villegas / THE COURIER - GAZETTE
    Posted At: March 31, 2023
    Pablo Sáinz-Villegas has been acclaimed by the international press as the successor of Andrés Segovia and an ambassador of Spanish culture in the world. Since his debut with the New York Philharmonic under the baton of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos at the Lincoln Center, he has played in more than 40 countries and invited to play with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, Philharmonic of...

  • Isabel Leonard and Pablo Sainz-Villegas together at The Conrad in La Jolla / BroadwayWorld
    Posted At: December 5, 2022
    A recital of opera diva and classical guitarist. Mezzo Isabel Leonard and classical-guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas are stars in their fields.BroadwayWorld's Ron Bierman writes….Leonard has sung on two Grammy-winning opera recordings and won a Beverly Sills Artist Award at the Metropolitan Opera--and even guested on Sesame Street. Sáinz-Villegas has garnered 30 international awards, including the Segovia, wh...

  • Pablo Sainz-Villegas - Soul of the Spanish Guitar is the WFMT: Featured New Release
    Posted At: November 24, 2020

    Regarded as one of the world's leading soloists on his instrument, Pablo Sáinz-Villegas embodies "the soul of the Spanish guitar" and has long been internationally acclaimed as an ambassador of Spanish culture. For his latest album, this exceptional artist has chosen ten works that are especially close to his heart: "Spanish music represents a blend of different influences," he explains, because "...
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