MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Music For 2 Guitars, Vol. 2 - The Well-Tempered Guitars / Fuga Elegiaca Brasil Guitar Duo [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2009 ] 'Sonics are first rate, and the interplay of the two guitars is a delight' - Audiophile Audition |
CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Music for Two Guitars, Vol. 1 (Incls 'Sonatina canonica, Op. 196') Brasil Guitar Duo [ Naxos Laureate Series / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "Sonics are first rate, and the interplay of the two guitars is a delight if you are situated properly between your speakers or listening on headphones." (AudAud.com five stars) |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO / TORU TAKEMITSU / BELA BARTOK / RAVI SHANKAR / ASTOR PIAZZOLLA
Music for Flute and Guitar Britta Jacobs (flute) Irene Kalisvaart (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/Nov/2021 ] This album of 20th-century masterpieces for flute and guitar features works composed especially for this combination of instruments plus arrangements of works by Bartók and Ravi Shankar. |
OLIVA / PONCE / BROUWER / SOJO
Guitar Recital Cecilio Perera (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] Winner of a remarkable number of awards and acknowledged as one of the most important guitarists to emerge from Mexico in recent years, Cecilio Perera demonstrates the strength and beauty of the guitar tradition in Central and South America in this... |
AGUSTIN BARRIOS
Barrios: Guitar Music, Vol. 4 Celil Refik Kaya (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Sep/2018 ] Agustin Barrios Mangore was one of the greatest guitar virtuosi of his time and something of a pioneer in making recordings, which he began as early as 1910. His compositions offer a lexicon of technical and expressive devices for the guitar, from... |
CARLO DOMENICONI
Domeniconi: Sinbad - A Fairy Tale For Solo Guitar, Op. 49 Celil Refik Kaya (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] Renowned both as a guitarist and a composer, Carlo Domeniconi has written over 150 compositions, combining Eastern and Western elements in striking and individual ways. Sinbad, a Fairy Tale for Solo Guitar is a perfect example of his imaginative... |
JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Rodrigo: Guitar Works, Vol. 3 - Elogio de la guitarra • Tríptico • Dos preludios • Sonata a la española Celil Refik Kaya (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 28/May/2021 ] Joaquín Rodrigo, composer of the renowned Concierto de Aranjuez (Naxos 8.579053), is acknowledged as one of the great Spanish composers of the 20th century. |
BACH / BARTÓK / BERG / GESUALDO
The Art of Classical Guitar Transcription - Christophe Dejour (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Nov/2020 ] Christophe Dejour's arrangements of music by Albéniz (8.557064) and Granados (8.557709) performed by Trio Campanella have won much acclaim. For this recording he has made three pioneering arrangements that further expand the instrument's repertoire... |
CHRISTOS TZIFAKIS
Tzifakis: Flamenco Odyssey Christos Tzifakis (guitar) / Chamber Ensemble [ Naxos / CD - released 13/May/2022 ] Athens-born Christos Tzifakis has performed internationally as a solo classical guitarist and composed widely for solo guitar, flamenco-jazz groups and for the theatre. Flamenco Odyssey is one of his major works in which he allows the listener to... |
ANTHONY BURGESS
Burgess: Complete Guitar Quartets Complete Guitar Quartets [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Composer and novelist, Anthony Burgess, was a unique creative artist whose dual mastery of music and literature resulted in a career strewn with an output of remarkable diversity. Burgess came into contact with the Aïghetta Guitar Quartet while... |
Dagoberto/Cam.Cassov Linhares
Guitar Concertos [ Naxos / CD ] |
DALE KAVANAGH
Kavanagh plays Kavanagh Dale Kavanagh (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 21/May/2021 ] This album presents a selection of works by Canadian-born guitarist Dale Kavanagh, one of the instrument's most prominent exponents. Known for her virtuosic and sensitive playing, these very personal compositions display a wide range of emotions... |
SRDJAN BULATOVIC / DARKO NIKCEVIC
Feel the Moment - Meditative Mediterranean Guitar Music Darko Nikčević and Srdjan Bulatović (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Apr/2022 ] Darko Nikčević and Srdjan Bulatović, the internationally renowned guitar duo from Montenegro, are acclaimed for their virtuosity and for exciting performances that blend influences from the Mediterranean and the Middle East. |
SAMUEL ADLER
Cantos, Close Encounters & Five Snapshots David Fulmer (violin), Randolph Kelly (viola), Amir Eldan (cello), Kurt Muroki (double bass), Ricardo Iznaola (guitar), June Han (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 16/Apr/2013 ] The winner of many prestigious awards for composition, Samuel Adler is also Professor emeritus at the Eastman School of Music. |
ALAN HOVHANESS
Hovhaness: Khrimian Hairig / Guitar Concerto / Symphony No. 60 David Leisner (guitar) / Lars Ranch (trumpet) / Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra / Gerard Schwarz [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 2/Jan/2007 ] Described by the composer's wife as his 'true masterpiece', Khrimian Hairig, with its trumpet solo, recalls the heroic Armenian priest of the title. Hovhaness' virtuoso and romantic Guitar Concerto was written for the Bolivian guitarist Juan Calderon. |
SCARLATTI / REGONDI / BACH / de LUCIA / etc
Guitar Recital David Martinez, guitar [ Naxos / CD - released 19/Sep/2005 ] |
AARON JAY KERNIS / ASTOR PIAZZOLLA / ROBERTO SIERRA
Double Echo - New Guitar Concertos from the Americas David Tanenbaum (guitar) / New Century Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Derthick, Aaron Jay Kernis [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] This album of guitar concertos from the Americas features pieces composed for David Tanenbaum. Building on a tradition of prominent guitarists generating repertoire through new commissions, these works present the guitar in a variety of settings.... |
SOFIA GUBAIDULINA
Gubaidulina: Complete Guitar Works David Tanenbaum (guitar), with Marc Teicholz (guitar II), Jodi Levitz (viola), Scott Pingel (bass) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2015 ] Sofia Gubaidulina has found a soulfulness and freedom in the guitar which speaks to her musical language of expressive mood and often mysterious but precise sonorities. In both Repentance and Sotto Voce she combines guitars with lower stringed... |
HANS WERNER HENZE
Hanze: Guitar Music (Vol. 2) Debora Halasz (Piano), Anna Torge (mandolin) & Cristina Bianchi (harp) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2010 ] Few living composers besides Hans Werner Henze have enjoyed such remarkable success across such a wide range of musical genres, from large-scale concert and stage works to chamber and instrumental pieces. |
FERDINANDO CARULLI
Guitar and Piano Music Vol. 2 Debora Halasz (piano) / Franz Halasz (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Sep/2009 ] Franz and Débora Halász continue their revelatory exploration of Ferdinando and Gustavo Carulli's neglected yet highly appealing music... |