{"id":646,"date":"2018-02-21T21:31:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-21T20:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=646"},"modified":"2023-08-25T21:50:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T20:50:03","slug":"recording-session-with-sam-cave-guitar-sonata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/?p=646","title":{"rendered":"Recording session with Sam Cave: Guitar Sonata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking forward to the release of Sam Cave&#8217;s CD, which will feature both of my guitar sonatas, alongside Murail&#8217;s <em>Tellur<\/em>, Fox&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Chile\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Radulescu&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Subconscious Wave, <\/em>all of\u00a0which are possibly world premiere recordings.\u00a0 Sam has described this disc as the <strong>&#8220;cumulative expression of the last ten years of my guitar playing&#8221;,<\/strong> and I am very proud that my two pieces&#8211;both of which were such important creative efforts for me personally&#8211;feature in that history.<\/p>\n<p>I was present today to advise on the recording of the first sonata, and also had the chance to hear (and offer occasional input into) Sam&#8217;s recording of Christopher Fox&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Chile<\/em>.\u00a0 It was a thoroughly enjoyable day&#8217;s music-making.\u00a0 John Croft did a great job as recording engineer.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-650\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223308.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223308.jpg?resize=768%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 768w, 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room.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-652\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-652\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223345.jpg?resize=810%2C608&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223345.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223345.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223345.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223345.jpg?w=1620&amp;ssl=1 1620w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223345.jpg?w=2430&amp;ssl=1 2430w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam comes in to check a take.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_653\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-653\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-653\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223359.jpg?resize=810%2C608&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"608\" 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first sonata.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_654\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-654\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-654\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223410.jpg?resize=810%2C608&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"810\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223410.jpg?resize=1024%2C768&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223410.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/georgehollowaycomposer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/%E5%BE%AE%E4%BF%A1%E5%9B%BE%E7%89%87_20180221223410.jpg?resize=768%2C576&amp;ssl=1 768w, 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