Classical Guitar Recordings

[ChamberNut]

This sounds great! Fortuitous discovery. I tend to love Assad, Barrios, Coste, and Tansman, especially Barrios. If she is of the same caliber as the musicians in the Naxos series, that is a good sign.

Norbert Kraft and Bonnie Silver have really helped build an incredible classical guitar culture and infrastructure in Canada.

Indeed Brian!  As for the repertoire, I have heard some Barrios and of course Bach, but I don't think I have yet heard any guitar works of Assad, Coste or Tansman yet.  And I have only heard the Three Saulades and Tango en Skai by Dyens thus far.  So, it will be interesting to hear what I end up hearing! 

[Bachtoven]

Assad is a great player (one half of the Assad Brothers Duo) and a fine composer. This is one of his more popular pieces:

Here is Anna playing a work by Assad:

Alexander Tansman wrote a number of fine works, many for Segovia. I particularly like his Passacaglia:

and Variations on a Theme by Scriabin:

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Enjoying the album.

[Bachtoven]

Matt Palmer is a top notch virtuoso and is also very expressive. There's some amazing playing on this CD. My favorite is "The Heaven's Hundred"--a chilling tribute to the protestors killed in Kiev, Ukraine in 2013-2014--even more relevant today.  (As far as I know, it's not available on streaming platforms, or at least not on Qobuz.)





Here's a video of Palmer playing the Heaven's piece.:

[ChamberNut]

Well....aren't I a lucky fellow? 

With my recent new found enjoyment and discovery of classical guitar music, I just found out that my city has a classical music society!  The Winnipeg Classical Guitar Society.

And lo and behold, there is a guitar recital this Saturday featuring polish guitarist Anna Pietrzak.

I think I will attend.  No details on the repertoire being played though that I could find.

The Anna Pietrzak recital was highly enjoyable! A few minor hiccups, but overall played marvelously, on a Thomas Humprey Memorial Model 1998 guitar. 

The modern tipi conical shaped church provided wonderful acoustics.  I'd say the audience was anywhere between 150-200.

Here was what she performed:

Bach - Prelude, Fugue and Allegro - BWV 998

Coste, Napoleon - Le Depart

Ponce - 24 Preludes (1 to 11) ed. Miguel Alcazar

Barrios - El Ultimo Tremolo
Barrios - La Catedral

Intermission

Tansman - Cavatina

Dyens - Three French Songs

Assad, Sergio - Seis Brevidades

I enjoyed all compositions, but the biggest highlight was the utterly beautiful Bach Fugue.

[ChamberNut]

I do wish my "new found" enjoyment of classical guitar and my local classical guitar society would have been a little over a year sooner. 

As the society had a recital featuring Dale Kavanagh!

[ChamberNut]

Saw this posted on another classical music forum.  Is anyone else familiar with Caspar Joseph Mertz (1806-1856) guitar compositions?

I'm also unfamiliar with the performer, Graziano Salvoni

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

I have a Naxos album of Mertz. I like a few compositions with nice arpeggios, but other pieces just sound average to me. I listened to them many years ago, and I may change my mind.

[ChamberNut]

Here is Anna Pietrzak performing Sergio Assad's 'Seis Brevidades', which was one of the compositions I heard at the recital.

[BWV 1080]

Andrea Deici has recorded the complete solo guitar works of Henze and Takemitsu, both must own discs

[San Antone]

Andrea Deici has recorded the complete solo guitar works of Henze and Takemitsu, both must own discs

Many thanks for posting about this guitarist, a name new to me.  But if the choice of composers any indication, one well worth following.  I am listening to the Henze recording right now.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Some nice Giuliani compositions.

[Florestan]

Some nice Giuliani compositions.

Oh, yes, delighful music! There's also a first volume:



From the same excellent guitarist, on the same excellent label, comes also this gem:

[ChamberNut]

Oh, yes, delighful music! There's also a first volume:



From the same excellent guitarist, on the same excellent label, comes also this gem:

You have 23 pages of reading to do Andrei. 

[Florestan]

You have 23 pages of reading to do Andrei. 

Will do, Ray, will do.

[Florestan]

This box is a treasure trove:



I had heard about Agustin Barrios-Mangore but never listened to his music by the time the former GMG member Spineur claimed he (Barrios, that is) was the greatest solo guitar composer ever. At first, I was skeptical: given Giuliani, Sor and Tarrega, that was a tall order. Then I started exploring his music and I concluded that Spineur was not far off the mark. Maybe not the greatest but certainly one of the greatest. Mesmerizing music indeed, and very good performance.

I also have the 5-disc series on Naxos featuring different guitarists but I haven't listened to it yet. Will do asap and report.

[ChamberNut]

This box is a treasure trove:



I had heard about Agustin Barrios-Mangore but never listened to his music by the time the former GMG member Spineur claimed he (Barrios, that is) was the greatest solo guitar composer ever. At first, I was skeptical: given Giuliani, Sor and Tarrega, that was a tall order. Then I started exploring his music and I concluded that Spineur was not far off the mark. Maybe not the greatest but certainly one of the greatest. Mesmerizing music indeed, and very good performance.

I also have the 5-disc series on Naxos featuring different guitarists but I haven't listened to it yet. Will do asap and report.

I've enjoyed the little Barrios I've heard thus far, so I do plan on exploring his guitar music more!

[Florestan]

I've enjoyed the little Barrios I've heard thus far, so I do plan on exploring his guitar music more!

Start here:

[ChamberNut]

Start here:

Thanks. So far I have only heard El Ultimo Tremolo and La Catedrale by Barrios.

[Florestan]

Thanks. So far I have only heard El Ultimo Tremolo and La Catedrale by Barrios.

Did they wet your appetite or not?