The Soldier's Return: Guitar Music Inspired by Scotland

 
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The Soldier's Return: Guitar Music Inspired by Scotland
James Akers (guitar)

[ Resonus Classics / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 1 April 2016

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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 recordings - by guitar legends from continental Europe, all inspired by the Scottish landscape its music and its literature.

Featuring Mauro Giuliani & Luigi Legnani (from Italy), Fernando Sor (from Spain) and Johann Kaspar Mertz (from Hungary), this seductive album draws the listener in to the magical, diverse, and even haunting, Scottish influences that bewitched each of these nineteenth century composers.

Tracks:

1 Fernando Sor: Variations on a Favourite Scottish Air, Op. 40 7:07
2 Mauro Giuliani: The Soldier's Return 4:25
3 Luigi Legnani: Variations on Rossini's 'La Marcia' (from La donna del Lago) 7:31
4 Mauro Giuliani: Prelude and Scotsoises (1) 4:05
5 Mauro Giuliani: Blue Bells of Scotland 4:49
6 Mauro Giuliani: Jenny's Bawbee, A Reel 4:09
7 Johann Kaspar Mertz: Fingal's Cave 4:40
8 Mauro Giuliani: Coming through the Rye 3:45
9 Mauro Giuliani: Prelude and Scotsoises (2) 4:25
10 Mauro Giuliani: This is no my ain Lassie 5:05
11 Luigi Legnani: Variations on Rossini's 'Oh Quante Lagrime' (from La donna del Lago) 7:47
12 Mauro Giuliani: The Old Country Bumpkin