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IDA PRESTI
Presti: Complete Music for 2 Guitars Salvatore Fortunato (guitar), Fabio Perciballi (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 3/Nov/2023 ] - Ida Presti (1924-1967) was a French classical guitarist and composer. She first came to prominence as a child prodigy, before maturing into what Alice Artzt has called "the greatest guitarist of the 20th century, and possibly of all time." -... |
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Sanderling/Versailles Guitar
Balada:cello Concerto No.2 [ Naxos / CD - released 28/Jul/2003 ] |
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HECTOR VILLA-LOBOS
Villa-Lobos: The Complete Choros and Bachianas Brasileiras (also including The Complete Solo Guitar Music) Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra / John Neschling / Roberto Minczuk / Anders Miolin (guitar) [ BIS / 7 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2009 ] "The Brazilian players sound as if the music is in their blood … and their ensemble is in no way inferior to that of any of their rivals" (Gramophone) and "a world-class ensemble providing an assured blend of lush colours, pulsating rhythms and... |
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NICOLAI PAGANINI
Paganini: Music for Violin and Guitar II - 6 Sonatas Op.2 / Duets Scott St John (violin) Simon Wynberg (guitar) [ Naxos / CD ] "violinists, guitarists and lovers of winsomeness for its own sake should revel in these very well recorded discs" Gramophone |
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NICOLAI PAGANINI
Paganini: Music for Violin & Guitar Vol 1 - 6 Sonatas Op.3 Scott St John (violin) Simon Wynberg (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/May/1994 ] "The sheer joy which emits from this music making is at once infectious and hypnotic" Gramophone |
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WALTON / DOWLAND / ARNOLD / BRITTEN / BERKELEY
Dreams & Fancies: English music for solo guitar Sean Shibe (guitar) [ Delphian / CD - released 21/Jul/2017 ] Editor's Choice Gramophone September 2017 |
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J. S. BACH
Sean Shibe: Bach Sean Shibe (guitar) [ Delphian / CD - released 22/May/2020 ] GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Instrumental |
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MACMILLAN / WOLFE / LANG / REICH
softLOUD: music for acoustic and electric guitars Sean Shibe (guitar) [ Delphian / CD - released 21/Sep/2018 ] "Like Julian Bream before him, Shibe has a natural yet creative rapport with 17th-century lute music…Both refract the music through a generous soundworld that demands you savour every note." BBC Music Instrumental Choice November 2018 |
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JEFF BEAL
Beal: The House Of Cards Symphony Sharon Bezaly (flute), Jason Vieaux (guitar), Norrköping Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jeff Beal [ BIS / 2 CD - released 24/Aug/2018 ] This 2-disc set grew out of the fascination of Robert von Bahr, founder and managing director of BIS Records, for the television series House of Cards. It wasn't only - or even primarily - the script or the acting that grabbed him, however, but just... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Music ofthe Spanish Renaissance Shirley Rumsey (voice, vihuelas, lute, renaissance guitar) [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 22/Dec/2007 ] "A most remarkable voice." Northern Echo |
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KEMAL BELEVI
Cypriana - works for violin and guitar Silvia Grasso (Violin) Livio Grasso (Guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 22/Jul/2022 ] Kemal Belevi's works for the guitar, either solo or in combination, as heard on this album, exude the colour and allure of the eastern Mediterranean. Without alluding to any specific tunes, he evokes Cypriot folk music in Cypriana, while the linked... |
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ROSSINI
Ariettes Italiannes For Voice And Guitar Silvia Vajente (soprano) & Adriano Sebastiani (guitar) [ Brilliant Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2015 ] The Ariettes Italiennes are 8 pieces taken from the Soirées Musicales, a collection of songs and arias written by the "pensioned" Rossini after his retirement as a highly successful opera composer. They are pure delight, each one written on a certain... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Summertime - music for oboe & guitar Simon Wynberg (guitar) John Anderson (oboe & cor anglais) [ Chandos / CD - released 1/Jun/1992 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Into the Light The Sixteen (Featuring Kaori Muraji, guitar) / Harry Christophers [ Decca / CD - released 18/Feb/2007 ] The beautiful blend of Britain's best-loved choir and a chart-topping Japanese guitarist...Marrying centuries of great European choral tradition with the sublime sonorities and simplicity of the classical guitar. |
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RALPH TOWNER / MUTHSPIEL / GRANAGE
Migration Slava Grigoryan (guitar) / Australian String Quartet [ ABC Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] Guitarist Slava Grigoryan joins the Australian String Quartet in three world-premiere recordings, bringing dazzling contemporary voices to the guitar quintet genre first forged in the baroque period. |
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NIGEL WESTLAKE
Shadow Dances - music for guitar Slava Grigoryan (guitar) with Michael Kieran Harvey (piano), Leonard Grigoryan (guitar), Saffire & Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. [ ABC Classics / CD - released 15/Feb/2016 ] Internationally renowned guitarist Slava Grigoryan plays the music of Australian composer Nigel Westlake on this new album. Grigoryan is a long-time champion of Westlake's music, and in this CD he showcases pieces such as Antarctica, with the... |
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RODRIGO / VIVALDI / HANDEL WEISS / FASCH
Rodrigo Guitar Concertos / Baroque Guitar Concertos Slava & Leonard Grigoryan (guitar) / Queensland Symphony Orchestra • Brett Kelly / Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey [ ABC Classics / 2 CD - released 20/Jul/2017 ] A reappearance on the market of the ABC Classics recording that features Joaquín Rodrigo's three guitar concertos. |
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SCHUBERT / DEBUSSY / MOZART / SCHUMANN / GRANADOS
Children's Corner - Music for Guitar Johan Smith (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Multi-award-winning guitarist Johan Smith has considerably extended his instrument's repertoire with this selection of transcriptions celebrating childhood in a variety of ways. These popular piano works - Schubert's Erlkönig, Granados's atmospheric... |
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FERNANDO SOR
Guitar Music (Incls 'Souvenir d'Amitie, Op. 46') Jeffrey McFadden (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Collection / CD - released 25/Apr/2010 ] Jeffrey McFadden (guitar) |
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TARREGA / SULEK / ALBENIZ / BRITTEN / REGONDI
Guitar Recital Srdjan Bulat (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - released 1/Nov/2012 ] This selection ranges from the romanticism of Francisco Tárrega, the Spanish impressionism of Albéniz's Mallorca and the neo-romanticism of the contemporary Croatian composer, Stjepan Šulek, to Rodrigo's masterly evocation of the gardens of the... |