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LILBURN / FARQUHAR
Prospero Dreaming - New Zealand Guitar Music by Lilburn and Farquhar Gunter Herbig (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jun/2009 ] This is the first comprehensive recorded survey of the guitar music of Douglas Lilburn and David Farquhar, the two pre-eminent composers who enriched New Zealand's musical culture in the modern era. |
VIVALDI / J.S. BACH
Baroque Guitar Favourites Gerald Garcia (Guitar) / Camerata Cassovia / Peter Breiner [ Naxos / CD - released 29/Sep/2007 ] "Sensitive phrasing, strong tone quality and tidy ornamentation are present throughout" - Classical Guitar |
DEBUSSY / FAURE / SATIE
Romantic French Music for Guitar and Orchestra Gerald Garcia (guitar) / CSFR State Philharmonic Orchestra / Peter Breiner [ NAXOS / CD - released 18/Oct/2009 ] "If you enjoy beautifully refined, exquisitely crafted composition, and if you enjoy the guitar in company of a relaxed orchestra, then go for this disc" (Classical Guitar Magazine) |
TRADITIONAL
A Royal Songbook: Spanish music from the time of Columbus Geraldine McGreevy (sop) Jacob Heringman (Vihuela, lute & guitar) / Musica Antiqua of London / Philip Thorby [ Naxos Early Music / CD - released 1/Jun/2010 ] "[If] anyone has missed out on this repertory, then no doubt they can and will acquire a taste for ir listening to this super-budget CD." Gramophone, September 1996 |
WERTHMULLER / BACH / SCARLATTI / BOGDANOVIC
Guitar Recital Goran Krivokapic (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 23/Oct/2005 ] |
FERNANDO SOR
Twelve Studies / Fantaisie / Six Divertimenti Goran Krivokapic (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Collection / CD - released 20/Aug/2008 ] The Spanish-born guitarist and composer Fernando Sor was one of the great figures in the history of the instrument. His many brilliantly-crafted sets of studies contain some of the most popular works for guitar. The justly celebrated Twelve Studies,... |
WALTON / MAXWELL DAVIS / RAWSTHORNE / BERKELEY / etc
British Guitar Music Graham Anthony Devine (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 6/Mar/2005 ] |
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... |
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,... |
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 |
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) |
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. |
NAPOLEON COSTE
Guitar Works, Vol. 1 Jeffrey Mcfadden (Guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Collection / CD - released 17/May/2008 ] Napoléon Coste was France's greatest guitar composer, and, together with Mertz, the guitar composer most representative of the Romantic style. Born in the village of Amondans in western France, Coste was named after the new Emperor and groomed for a... |
JOAQUIN RODRIGO
Rodrigo: Guitar Works, Vol. 1 (Incls 3 piezas espanolas & Sonata giocosa) Jeremy Jouve (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 13/Apr/2008 ] "The young French guitarist Jérémy Jouve plays it brilliantly, although he is not a show-off artist, preferring musical values, which he displays in the sensitive account of the Andante moderato slow movement of the Sonata giocosa." Penguin Guide |
RODRIGO
Complete Orchestral Works 5 (Includes 'Concierto Madrigal' & 'Concierto para una fiesta') Joaquin Clerch, guitar / Ricardo Gallen, guitar Orquesta Sinfonica del Principado de Asturias Maximiano Valdes, conductor [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2003 ] "As with Russians, it takes Spaniards to play Spanish music properly, and the Asturias Symphony rises eloquently to the task, filling the most urban sitting-room with those sweeping Spanish vistas." |
GUITAR RECITAL
Guitar Recital (Ponce, Asencio, Castelnuovo-Tedesco) Johan Fostier, guitar [ Naxos Laureate Series: Guitar / CD - released 14/Feb/2002 ] One of Belgium's young generation of guitarists, Johan Fostier has been a laureate in a number of leading international guitar contests, taking first prize in Eindhoven in 1998 |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Guitar Recital: Rafael Aguirre Rafael Aguirre (guitar) [ Naxos Laureate Series: Guitar / CD - released 1/Jun/2012 ] Rafael Aguirre is acknowledged as one of today's most celebrated virtuoso guitarists, having won first prize at 13 of the world's most prestigious international competitions: a record-breaking achievement for a Spanish musician. Following on from his... |