Plena is a slow and expressive ballade for piano four hands. Duration: 5:15

The piece is dedicated to Maria Grazia Mazzone (who also suggested Plena as title - in clear allusion to the Latin expression Ave Maria gratia plena).

The first version (as a simple melody, even conceived as second theme of another future piece) was sketched in Bremen, Germany, on 20 August 2013. Much more material written on 1 July 2016. Corrections and precisions in different occasions.

In theory it is also possible to perform Plena as a ballad for piano two hands.

In planning, I have in mind a version for cello and piano.

Premiere by Juan María Solare and Selma Hande Gade, 28 October 2018, Messiaskirken, Charlottenlund, Denmark.

The piece was recorded by both pianists on 18th April 2019 at Pür Studio, Istanbul, and will be released on 10th January 2020 (label Janus Music & Sound, Germany).

ISWC: T-803.289.240-4 * GEMA-Nr.: 13.981.995

Juan Maria Solare, born 1966 in Argentina, works currently in Germany as composer, pianist (neoclassical/contemporary music & tango) and teaching at the University of Bremen and at the Hochschule fuer Kuenste Bremen. His music has been performed in five continents. Thirty CDs of different performers include at least one piece of him. Find his music on Spotify: https://play.spotify.com/artist/0sr00YxbHKRAruzYrJ6PEg

Official Website: www.JuanMariaSolare.com

The easy piano version was written on 7 April 2008 and finished in Berlin on 9th April 2008. Premiere of this version for piano solo: by the composer on 3 July 2008 at the theatre of the University in Bremen, during a concert of the Orquesta No Típica. Premiere in the Americas by Iván Pérez Faccaro on 27 November 2008 at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Buenos Aires �stor Piazzolla (Argentina). Incluided in the CD Tango Monologues (January 2010) by Juan María Solare. (https://open.spotify.com/track/71ksY7eCbpeKM1Kjj2x9KT)

Second version, for piano four hands, written in Köln on April 17, 2008. There are first corrections made in Köln on November 7, 2008, which echo the versions made in between. Premiere by Helga Beier & Markus Deinhard on Thursday, May 27, 2010, recital Klavier 1- bis 6-händig in the theater of the University of Bremen.