JULIAN ARCAS
Arcas: Complete Guitar Music Gabriele Zanetti (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD - released 25/Sep/2020 ] Julian Arcas (1832-1882) was born in Almeria, Spain in a musical family: his father was guitarist and passed his passion soon over to his son. The family moved to Malaga where Julian took lessons with the famous José Asencio. From his 16th on Julian... |
YANN TIERSEN
Tiersen: La Plage, Arrangements for Guitar George Tossikian (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 22/Jan/2021 ] Played by Jeroen van Veen, the solo- piano collection (95129) of themes from Yann Tiersen's film scores is a Brilliant Classics best seller. Now also available, some of Tiersen's best- known melodies arranged for guitar by George Tossikian. |
GIUSEPPE ROSETTA
Rosetta: Music for Guitar Gian Luca Barbero (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 23/Oct/2020 ] Giuseppe Rosetta (1901-1985) studied in Rome under Respighi but soon returned to his Piedmontese birthplace of Vercelli. There he remained, leading and enriching the local musical culture as an organist, choir conductor and music teacher. He spurned... |
MIRTO / KROGSETH
Norwegian Memories / Viking Concerto Giorgio Mirto (guitar) / Florence String Ensemble [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2015 ] Giorgio Mirto follows in a long and distinguished line of guitarist-composers stretching back to his fellow Italian Mauro Giuliani, and he is justifiably a regular contributor to the catalogue of Brilliant Classics, playing both the classic (mostly... |
LEO BROUWER
Works for solo guitar Giovanni Caruso (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2009 ] Leo Brouwer was born in Havana in 1939, and we can trace his lineage as a guitarist back to Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909). |
FRANCISCO TARREGA
Tarrega: Guitar Edition (solo works & transcriptions) Giulio Tampalini (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 23/Sep/2015 ] Francisco Tárrega may have written little, but the works that he did compose have been a cornerstone of every guitar player's oeuvre since the composer's death in 1909. Particularly famous is his Recuerdos de la Alhambra, one of the most beautiful... |
LUIGI MOZZANI / OTTORINO RESPIGHI
Mozzani / Respighi: Complete Music for Guitar Giulio Tampalini (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2017 ] The wirily coiffured man in his middle years who glares from the cover of this new Brilliant Classics release is Luigi Mozzani. Perhaps he has misgivings about his picture being taken; if so, it does not apparently unsettle his playing. |
LUYS MILAN / LUYS DE NARVAEZ
Milán (Luys) & de Narvaez (luys): Fantasias Giuseppe Chiaramonte (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 17/Jun/2022 ] The vihuela experienced its heyday in the 15th and 16th centuries, and the first book of music written for this instrument appeared in Valencia in 1536. This was El Maestro by Luys Milán, followed by Luys de Narváez's Los seys libros del Delphín... |
MANUEL PONCE
Complete Guitar Music Gérard Abiton (guitar) & Beatrice Martin (harpsichord) Ensemble Orchestral Stringendo, Jean Thorel [ Brilliant Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2014 ] Manuel Ponce was one of Mexico's best and most popular composers. His compositions are imbued with the native music and folklore of his beloved Mexico, irresistably lively, sensual and passionate. |
CASPAR JOSEPH MERTZ
Dances, Nocturnes and Etudes for Six‐String Guitar Graziano Salvoni (six-string 'Stauffer' guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 26/Jun/2014 ] Here's another recording dedicated to the music of Caspar Joseph Mertz, the court guitarist of Empress Carolina Augusta whose performances became famous throughout Austria, Hungary and Germany during the 1800s, making him one of the most sought-after... |
ROSSINI
Semiramide (Highlights From the Opera Arranged for Solo Guitar by Mauro Giuliani) Izhar Elias (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / 2 CD - released 15/Jun/2009 ] Izhar Elias was born in Amsterdam in 1977, and has been praised for his 'fantastic musicality, highly developed sense of style, elegance and allure' jury of the International Tromp Music Competition, The Netherlands. |
FRANCESCO CORBETTA
Corbetta: La Guitarre Royalle Izhar Elias (baroque guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] Francesco Corbetta: the JS Bach of the guitar? A bold claim, but one made with passion by the guitarist Izhar Elias in his own booklet essay for this ground-breaking new album. |
JOAQUIN TURINA
Complete Guitar Music Jan Depreter (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 20/Aug/2015 ] This release presents the complete music for clarinet and piano by Ferruccio Busoni. The works Joaquin Turina is one of Spain's foremost romantic composers, receiving his rightful stature next to the giants Albeniz and Granados. Turina left a... |
J.S BACH
J. S. Bach: Klavierbüchlein für Anna-Magdalena Bach Jan Depreter (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 28/Aug/2020 ] This new recording contains the transcriptions for guitar that guitarist Jan Depreter made of the second Notenbüchlein für Anna-Magdalena Bach (1725). Depreter about this project: "While this selection of little musical gemstones is probably best... |
MARIO CASTELNNOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnnova-Tedesco: Complete Music For Soprano And Guitar Joanna Klisowska (soprano), Giulio Tampalini (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968) wrote his song cycle "The Divan of Moses Ibn Ezra" in the last years of his life, a work of reflection on the human condition. Moses Ibn Ezra (1055-1138) was a Jewish poet who took refuge in Spain after the... |
RODRIGO
Complete Guitar Music [3 CD set] Ignacio Rodes, Marco Socías, Carlos Pérez, Carles Trepat (guitars) [ Brilliant Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/May/2010 ] Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-99) composed for the guitar for over 75 years. Over his long and productive life he produced some of the best loved music ever written for the instrument - Concierto de Aranjuez and the Fantasia para un gentilhombre. His output... |
GARULLI
Complete Works for Guitar and Pianoforte (Rec 2002) Leopoldo Saracino (guitar) Massimo Palumbo (fortepiano) [ Brilliant Classics / 8 CD - released 16/Aug/2005 ] "The astonishingly mature playing of guitarist Leopoldo Saracino and pianist Massimo Palumbo are full of character in near faultless performances of works that are packed with quality and interest." (MusicWeb March 2004) |
DIAZ / GOMES / RIOS / GUOLLHERME / ROMERO / CASTRO / etc
Los Ecos de Manzanares: Canzionero de la Sablonara, 17th Century Spanish Court Music; La Boz Galana, Sebastian Leon Louis Capeille (double harp), Guillherme Barroso (baroque guitar), Lore Agustí (soprano), Sebastián León (baritone) / La Boz Galana [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 14/Feb/2020 ] The Cancionero de la Sablonara is a collection made up of 75 polyphonic songs composed for the Royal Court of Madrid during the first two decades of the 17th century. The manuscript is named after Claudio de la Sablonara, copyist and archivist of... |
PIAZZOLLA / BROUWER / ARCAS / TARREGA / VILLA-LOBOS / etc
Latin Latitudes: Latin-American Guitar Music Luciano Tortorelli (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Apr/2016 ] "Latin Latitudes" is a musical journey between two latitudes, connected by latin musical roots. The composers originate from Spain and Italy, Latin and South America. |
J. S. BACH
Bach, (J.S.): Guitar Music (LP) Luigi Attademo (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / LP - released 1/Sep/2023 ] A newly recorded collection of highlights from Bach's great corpus of instrumental writing, in transcriptions by Luigi Attademo himself. |