WALTON / MAXWELL DAVIS / RAWSTHORNE / BERKELEY / etc
British Guitar Music Graham Anthony Devine (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] |
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. |
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... |
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 |
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,... |
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. |
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. |
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... |
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... |
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. |
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 |
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... |
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 |
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... |
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) |
Jeffrey Mcfadden
Coste:guitar Works V.4 [ Naxos / CD - released 24/Jul/2000 ] |
Jeffrey Mcfadden
Sor:cpte.Guitar Music Vol.7 [ Naxos / CD ] |
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... |
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... |
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. |