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FERNANDO SOR
Twelve Studies / Fantaisie / Six Divertimenti Goran Krivokapic (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Collection / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] The Spanish-born guitarist and composer Fernando Sor was one of the great figures in the history of the instrument. His many brilliantly-crafted sets of studies contain some of the most popular works for guitar. The justly celebrated Twelve Studies,... |
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DOWLAND / BRITTEN / MAW / RUTTER / SCOTT
British Guitar Music Volume 2 Graham Anthony Devine (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Apr/2021 ] The iconic guitarist Julian Bream commissioned music from a number of British composers with international reputations, thus creating a whole new repertoire of guitar music. He also played an important role in the revival of interest in the... |
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WALTON / MAXWELL DAVIS / RAWSTHORNE / BERKELEY / etc
British Guitar Music Graham Anthony Devine (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] |
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J. S. BACH
J.S. Bach: Guitar Transcriptions Graham Anthony Devine (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Apr/2012 ] From the nineteenth century transcriptions by Francisco Tárrega to those by John Duarte and Rick Foster, the tradition of performing J.S. Bach's music on the guitar has fashioned works of great beauty and transformative power. |
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LEO BROUWER
La Ciudad de las Columnas Graham Anthony Devine (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Jan/2008 ] This fourth volume of Leo Brouwer's guitar music consists of works ranging from his earliest, the neo-classical Suite No. 1 'Antigua', written at the age of sixteen, to his most recent compositions. Written in 2004, La ciudad de las columnas (The... |
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BUSTAMENTE / TIRAO / LOBO / ALVARADO / CARRILLO / BARRIOS / etc
South American Guitar Music Graham Anthony Devine (guitar) [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] "Devine plays this South American repertory with much understanding, affinity and immaculate attention to every dimension of execution. On this recording he employs two different instruments: Otto Rauch and Graham Emes (Reis, Laurenz)." MusicWeb |
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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. |
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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... |
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Guitar Music from Cuba
Marco Tamayo, guitar [ Naxos Guitar Collection / CD - released 2/Apr/2004 ] Cuban culture is essentially an amalgam of three dominant factors: 400 years of Spanish colonial rule, ending in 1901; the impact of religion as a result of white and African slave immigration; and the 60-year exposure to North American culture,... |
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Guitar Slim
The Things That I Used To Do [ Ace Records U.K. / CD ] |
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WESTLAKE / CHARLTON / HOUGHTON, / KATS-CHERNIN
Australian Guitar Quartets Guitar Trek [ Naxos Laureate Series: Guitar / CD - released 10/Jun/2020 ] Australia's premier guitar quartet Guitar Trek reflects life in modern Australia with a programme that showcases works of immense colour and rhythmic vitality. |
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BACH
Georg Gulyas Plays Bach Georg Gulyas (guitar) [ Proprius / SACD - released 27/Aug/2009 ] The Chaconne was composed in Cöthen north of Leipzig about 1720 and forms part of the Partita No. 2 in D minor for solo violin. Since this particular movement distinguishes itself from the other parts of the suite, both in character and length, it is... |
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ARVO PART
Pärt: Wherever I Go Gunter Herbig (electric guitar) [ Gramola / CD - released 27/May/2022 ] Gunter Herbig's meditative guitar albums have become cult objects far beyond the classical music scene. After 'ex oriente' with arrangements of piano music by Gurdjieff/de Hartmann (BIS Records) and the Villa-Lobos album 'Tristorosa' (Aldila... |
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BRUCE PAINE
Paine: Waitemata Reverie, New Zealand Guitar Music, Vol. 3 Gunter Herbig (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Nov/2019 ] Classical guitar music has flourished in New Zealand in recent years, and Bruce Paine, among the country's leading composers for the instrument, is one of the most imaginative and original. This album charts the course of his writing from one of his... |
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TURINA / BERNSTEIN / BONNEY / NIXON / KOH
Converging Cultures Fred Hamilton (guitar) / Lone Star Wind Orchestra, Eugene Migliaro Corporon [ Naxos Wind Band Classics / CD - released 27/Feb/2012 ] This programme brings the old world of festive Spain in Turina's La Procession du Rocío into a meeting with Roger Nixon's Californian 'tonal fresco' Fiesta del Pacifico. Chang Su Koh's Korean Dances use exotic traditional rhythms, whereas Bernstein's... |
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MAURO GIULIANI
Giuliani: Complete Original Works for Flute and Guitar Mikael Helasvuo (flute) & Jukka Savijoki (guitar) [ BIS / 3 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2013 ] In the beginning of the nineteenth century the guitar enjoyed a wide popularity...The most celebrated of the several composer-guitarists active at this time was Mauro Giuliani, born in 1781 in southern Italy. |
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DEREK BERMEL
Bermel: Intonations - music for clarinet and strings Derek Bermel (Clarinet) Christopher Otto (Violin) Wiek Hijmans (Electric guitar) / JACK Quartet [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] Twice GRAMMY-nominated composer and performer Derek Bermel studied with Henri Dutilleux, Dutch avant-gardist Louis Andriessen, and ragtime revivalist William Bolcom. |
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Hugo German Gaido, guitar Irmgard Toepper, flute
Piazzolla-Complete Music for Flute and Guitar [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Nov/2002 ] "Gaido approaches the solo guitar pieces with relaxed, thoughtful interpretations and a warm, gentle sound, giving Cinco Piezas a musically interesting performance." - American Record Guide |
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ALBENIZ / RODRIGO / JOSE / de FALLA / TARREGA
Invocation: Impressions of Spain Ian Watt (Guitar) [ Nimbus / CD - released 10/Mar/2013 ] |
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MONTEVERDE
Del Canto Gitano Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde (guitar) [ ARC Music / CD - released 26/Feb/2021 ] Del Canto Gitano portrays the unique, historic blend of Greek, Roman, Arabic, Sephardic, Indian and Castilian traditions, that create the mystical symbiosis of Ancient Andalusia. Arranged for flamenco guitar, with baroque guitar, Greek violin and... |