Marcin Dylla Plays C’est la mer melee au soleil by Erik Højsgaard

ByBradford Werner
2021

Polish guitarist Marcin Dylla plays C’est la mer melee au soleil by Danish composer Erik Højsgaard (b.1954). This comes via Dylla’s fantastic YouTube channel. Recorded at Academy of Music in Katowice on 07.07.2021. Beautiful piece with a brilliantly colourful performance by Dylla with moments of peaceful contemplation to extroverted outbursts. A significant work for guitar and very wide ranging in the guitar orchestration and motivic complexity. You can check out the poem Eternity by Arthur Rimbaud in English here or, I assume, the original L’Eternité in French here.

Højsgaard also has the piece info on his site:

C’est la mer mêlée au soleil (1981, rev. 1982)
Duration: 12 min.
Publisher: Edition Wilhelm Hansen
Written for Karl Petersen.
First performance of the original version: 8/2 1982 at Støvring Højskole, Karl Petersen.
First performance of the revised version: 29/4 1983 at the Royal Academy of Music, Aarhus, Karl Petersen

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.