TY Zhang – 'The sleep of reason produces monsters' by Castelnuovo-Tedesco

https://guitarmag.net == Tengyue 'TY' Zhang plays 'El sueño de la razón produce monstruos' ('The sleep of reason produces monsters') from '24 Caprichos De Goya' by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968). Among Goya’s most famous images, this has been considered as one of the artist’s self-portraits. The man, either sleeping or dreaming (sueño in Spanish carries both meanings), is surrounded by evil-looking owls, a sinister lynx with pointed ears, and bat-like creatures. The music takes the form of a short Chaconne with five variations. Variation 1 deploys rapid arpeggios accompanying the Chaconne theme. Variation 2 moves into triplet patterns while Variation 3 uses the Chaconne in the bass against treble scale passages. The next Variation brings the theme back into the treble against a busy accompaniment before Variation 5, marked con fuoco (with fire) offers a chordal exploration in quavers of the insistent theme. The final recapitulation is ‘very slow and solemn’. TY Zhang is the world’s most prestigious guitar competition award winner – Guitar Foundation of American (GFA) International Concert Artist Competition (ICAC) 2017. Same year, he won the first prize on Alexander Frauchi Competition. Performed live on November 9th, 2018 on 'Two evenings in November' Festival. Gnessins' Academy of Music, Moscow, Russia. Video © 2018 by Guitar Magazine. Cameras: Konstantin Neklyudov, Dmitry Smirnoff