Carlos GUASTAVINO / Juan ERENA / Manuel María PONCE / Leo BROUWER / etc
Guitar Recital Ausiàs Parej (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Ausiàs Parejo is the winner of the 2022 'Alhambra' International Guitar Competition. In this programme he includes three cornerstones of the Spanish and Latin American repertoire. Combining idiomatic colour and rhythmic vivacity, Guastavino's First... |
Francis POULENC / Agustín BARRIOS MANGORÉ / Albert ROUSSEL / Konstantin BLIOKH / etc
Guitar Recital MarkoTopchii (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] This recital by Marko Topchii, winner of the 2023 Guitar Foundation of America Competition, ranges widely across the repertoire, from a Renaissance lute masterpiece by John Dowland, through early 20th-century neo-Romanticism, to the technical... |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete String Quartets Quartetto Adorno [ Naxos Guitar / CD - due 21/Jun/2024 ] Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco began to focus on chamber music composition during the late 1920s. From this period comes the String Quartet No. 1 in G major, which offers a countryside panorama with rustic serenades and processional themes reminiscent of... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Guitar Recital Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo, winner of the 2022 European Bach Guitar Award, presents a selection of works transcribed for guitar from the rich repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach. Arrangements made for different instruments were customary during the Baroque... |
ARCILA / OROZCO / BECERRA / ARDILA / BIGNEY / SUPA
Same River Twice - Works for Guitar Billy Arcila (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] Billy Arcila, raised in Medellín, Colombia, has lived in the United States for over 40 years, where he teaches and performs as one of California's foremost guitarists. |
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... |
HUANG Tao / LIN Huanqi / XIA Weinan
Chinese Romance Xianji Liu (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Chinese Romance presents a selection of recent compositions that are all deeply evocative, referring to specific imagery and romantic experiences for their inspiration. These poetic and lyrical pieces explore the guitar's delicate timbres with nuance... |
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... |
SCARLATTI / CRAEYVANGER / MANGORÉ / BRAHMS / DEBUSSY / etc
Guitar Recital - Lovro Peretić Lovro Peretić (guitar) [ Naxos Laureate Series / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] For his guitar laureate recording, Croatian-born Lovro Peretić has selected a panoramic programme that reaches back to the 18th century and forward to modern times. of the two Scarlatti sonata arrangements one is by Peretić who has also transcribed a... |
NAPOLEON COSTE
Coste: Guitar Works Volume 6 An Tran (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] The publication of a facsimile edition of Napoléon Coste's complete works in the 1980s brought the composer-guitarist's name before the public after decades of neglect. A student of Sor, he was the most eminent French guitarist of the 19th century... |
REGINALD SMITH BRINDLE
Smith Brindle: Complete works for solo guitar Vol. 1 Duilio Meucci (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] Although Smith Brindle composed a variety of works including an opera, he is best known for his guitar music. The poetic and lyrical Etruscan Preludes express the mystery of an ancient and lost civilisation, while the enigmatic El Polifemo de oro... |
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Greeting Cards - 21 pieces for guitar Andrea De Vitis (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 14/Apr/2023 ] "Italian guitarist Andrea de Vitis posts 21 of the composer's Greeting Cards - musical portraits of friends, colleagues, admired artists - into one superbly performed album." NZ Listener 2023 |
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... |
JUSTIN HOLLAND
Holland: Guitar Works and Arrangements Christopher Mallett (guitar) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Justin Holland was an African American, born free in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the most influential and important American guitarist of the 19th century and wrote the first published and best-selling guitar method in the country. He was also a... |
CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Fantasias Sul América, Sonata for Solo Violin Soloists of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] Claudio Santoro was one of Brazil's leading composers, having written a considerable amount of solo, chamber and orchestral music, including arguably the most important symphonic cycle ever written in that country. |
REICH / CAGE / CARTER / DASHOW / KAMPELA
Changes Arturo Tallini (Electric Guitar,, Prepared Guitar,, Classical Guitar,, Vocalise), Domenico Ascione (Pre-recorded tape of electric guitar), and, James [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2022 ] Repertoire for solo guitar has gained in depth and quality in recent decades, with acoustic and electronic techniques enjoying an ever more imaginative coexistence. Arturo Tallini's recital explores contrasting approaches for his instrument,... |
BACH / DE BIASI / ROSSINI / OURKOUZOUNOV / RAVEL / KREBS / ASSAD
Works For Guitar Sextet Guitarra a Seis [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] With specially made instruments and a range that can emulate that of a whole orchestra, the acclaimed Guitarra a Seis bring us a colourful programme that includes works written specially for the ensemble. |
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. |
KONSTANTIN VASSILIEV
Vassiliev: El Faro Mágico / Wanderer in Time / Rose in the Snow / etc Yuri Liberzon (guitar), with Patrick O'Connell (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 26/Aug/2022 ] Konstantin Vassiliev's music synthesises several different styles including jazz, Russian folk music and contemporary Western traditions. This album contains music written over a 22-year period. |
Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde (guitar)
Flamenco - Pasado Y Presente [ Naxos World / CD - released 5/Aug/2022 ] This latest album by Ignacio Lusardi Monteverde unearths the historical influences and musical interactions of various cultures, and their effects on the numerous toques heard in flamenco today. Within his own avant-garde compositions, inspired by... |