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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Guitar Recital Irina Kulikova (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - released 22/Sep/2011 ] Within this highly varied selection of original compositions and transcriptions we move from Bach's masterful First Cello Suite transcribed by Irina Kulikova, to Fernando Sor's Fantaisie, an ingeniously structured work that is vital and energetic yet... |
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Ismael Reinhardt (guitar & violin)
Gypsy Swing [ ARC Music / CD - released 1/Aug/2013 ] |
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TIMO ALAKOTILA / JUKKA TIENSUU / TAN DUN / KALEVI AHO / etc
Kromos: 21st-Century Guitar Music Ismo Eskelinen (guitar) [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Apr/2020 ] For his new recital disc, the acclaimed Finnish guitarist Ismo Eskelinen had the aim of creating a programme that works like a story: 'a modern guitar disc that lends itself to continuous listening from beginning to end'. The pieces that he has... |
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KALEVI AHO
Aho: Concerto, Quintet & Contrapunctus Ismo Eskelinen (guitar) Ilkka Puputti (horn) / Lapland Chamber Orchestra, John Storgårds [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Jul/2024 ] Although the Finnish composer Kalevi Aho is best known as a symphonist, his constantly expanding catalogue includes numerous concertos as well as countless chamber works and arrangements of works by other composers. This album brings together works... |
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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. |
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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. |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Concierto de Aranjuez: Guitar Concertos Jacob Kellermann (guitar) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Norrbotten NEO, Christian Karlsen (conductor) [ BIS / CD - released 4/Dec/2020 ] Works by Francisco Coll and Pete Harden flank Rodrigo's famous concerto. |
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SOFIA GUBAIDULINA
Repentance Jacob Kellermann, Lucas Brar, Franz Halász (guitar) / Hariolf Schlichtig (viola), Wen-Sinn Yang (cello), Philipp Stubenrauch (doublebass), Débora Halá [ BIS SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 28/Jul/2014 ] This varied and fascinating journey into the world of Sofia Gubaidulina's chamber music is given us by a Munich-based group of eminent musicians. |
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Jakob Bro (guitar) with Palle Mikkelborg (trumpet, flugelhorn), Jon Christensen (drums), Thomas Morgan (double bass)
Returnings [ ECM / CD - released 23/Mar/2018 ] "Danish guitarist Jakob Bro creates magical music, impossible to categorize", wrote Downbeat recently. On 'Returnings' the magic is intensified as Bro and musical soul-mate Thomas Morgan reconnect with two living legends of European jazz, trumpeter... |
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GASPAR SANZ / SANTIAGO DE MURCIA
Spanish Guitar Music Jakob Lindberg (baroque guitar) [ BIS / CD - released 1/May/2000 ] The "Spanish" guitar developed in the 17th century with the addition of a fifth course to the instrument. |
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Jakob Lindberg, lute / guitar / lute mandorae
Seven Suites of Swedish Folk Tunes [ BIS / CD - released 3/Apr/2002 ] Jakob Lindberg really needs no introduction. As one of the most versatile players of plucked instruments (Renaissance and Baroque lutes, Theorbo, Archlute, Baroque guitar and so on) as well as being a noted scholar of the period, he is in demand all... |
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SOR / GIULIANI
The Soldier's Return: Guitar Music Inspired by Scotland James Akers (guitar) [ Resonus Classics / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] The increasingly in-demand guitarist and lutenist James Akers makes his Resonus solo debut with a stunning album of works for romantic guitar. Akers provides a captivating programme of works - consisting almost entirely of world premiere... |
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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... |
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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... |
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BARRIOS / BUSTAMANTE / KROUSE / MERLIN / ORBON / etc
Guitar Recital Jason Vieaux (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2016 ] "This is the finest debut guitar recital we have heard for some years.... The Naxos recording has good ambiance and is present yet not too closely balanced. Unforgettable." Penguin Guide |
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XAVIER BENGUEREL
Concertante / Music for Percussion and Strings / Concert de tardor / Porta Ferrada Double Concerto Jaume Torrent (guitar) / Philippe Spiesser (percussion) / Manon Philippe (violin) / Mélodie Giot (cello) / O. Perpignan Méditerranée / Daniel Tosi [ Naxos Spanish Classics / CD - released 25/Aug/2011 ] Born in Spain and raised in Chile, Xavier Benguerel plays an important part in his native country's musical life, his compositions influenced by the work of Bartók, Stravinsky and the Second Viennese School. The concerto form has long fascinated the... |
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ALAN HOVHANESS
Hovhaness: Guitar Concerto No. 2 / Symphony No. 63 / Fanfare for the New Atlantis Javier Calderon (guitar) Royal Scottish National Orchestra / Stewart Robertson [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] "I cannot over-emphasise how attractive this music is. Hovhaness wrote in the 1960s of the importance of identifying our own kind of beauty. These three works bear him out completely." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month June 2008) |
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J. S. BACH
Bach: Cello Suites, Vol. 1 - Nos. 1-3, BWV 1007-1009 (arr. J. McFadden for guitar) Jeffrey McFadden (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2020 ] The six Cello Suites represent J.S. Bach's genius at its most distilled, with the composer confronting the enigma of writing counterpoint for a monophonic instrument at its core. Jeffrey McFadden's arrangement for guitar enhances the music, adding a... |
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J. S. BACH
Bach, J. S.: Cello Suites, Vol. 2 - Nos 4 - 6 (arr. guitar) Jeffrey McFadden (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Oct/2020 ] J.S. Bach's Cello Suites are believed to have been written in the Saxon town of Cöthen between 1717 and 1723. They stand near the apex of Bach's compositions for a single instrument and contain some of his most beautiful and vivid writing. Jeffrey... |
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AGUSTIN BARRIOS
Barrios: Guitar Music, Vol. 3 Jeffrey McFadden (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Jun/2007 ] Whilst he is now considered by some to be the greatest of all guitarist-composers, it is curious to think that the music of the Paraguayan Agustín Pío Barrios Mangoré fell into neglect for over three decades after his death. |