Classical Guitar Recordings

[Brahmsian]

@Bachtoven
@Papy Oli
@Dry Brett Kavanaugh
@Brian
@San Antone
@SonicMan46
@aligreto


Alright folks.    What are some of your favourites works played on a classical guitar, whether it be an original composition for guitar or a transcription?

[San Antone]

Britten - Nocturnal, after John Dowland

Brouwer - El decameron negro

Villa-Lobos - 5 Preludes

[SonicMan46]

@Bachtoven
@Papy Oli
@Dry Brett Kavanaugh
@Brian
@San Antone
@SonicMan46
@aligreto

Alright folks.    What are some of your favourites works played on a classical guitar, whether it be an original composition for guitar or a transcription?

Hi Ray - Just guitar (no lute, theorbo, etc) -     Well, I went through my database and selected out my 'guitar' music which is attached as a PDF file - I put in BOLD the recordings that I seem to like the best but plenty there to ponder over - hope this helps.  Dave

[Brahmsian]

Hi Ray - Just guitar (no lute, theorbo, etc) -     Well, I went through my database and selected out my 'guitar' music which is attached as a PDF file - I put in BOLD the recordings that I seem to like the best but plenty there to ponder over - hope this helps.  Dave

Thanks Dave.    You can certainly list your favourites for lute and theorbo too. 

[Bachtoven]

Transcriptions: Bach's 6th Partita, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, Chaconne, Lute Suite No.2; Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, Rochberg Caprice Variations, Berg Piano Sonata.

Original works: Nicholas Maw Music of Memory, Benjamin Britten Nocturnal, Carlo Domeniconi Chaconne (based on Bach's), Elliott Carter Changes, Michael Tippett The Blue Guitar, Hans Werner Henze The Royal Winter Music, Luciano Berio Sequenza XI, Kurt Schwertsik Ein kleines Requiem, and OlgaAmelkina-Vera The Heaven's Hundred.

That's a wildly incomplete list, but it's enough to get you started!   

[Pohjolas Daughter]

Transcriptions: Bach's 6th Partita, Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, Chaconne, Lute Suite No.2; Mussorgsky Pictures at an Exhibition, Rochberg Caprice Variations, Berg Piano Sonata.

Original works: Nicholas Maw Music of Memory, Benjamin Britten Nocturnal, Carlo Domeniconi Chaconne (based on Bach's), Elliott Carter Changes, Michael Tippett The Blue Guitar, Hans Werner Henze The Royal Winter Music, Luciano Berio Sequenza XI, Kurt Schwertsik Ein kleines Requiem, and OlgaAmelkina-Vera The Heaven's Hundred.

That's a wildly incomplete list, but it's enough to get you started!   

Interesting to see that someone did a transcription for guitar of Pictures!  I have a recording for piano that I adore (Richter/Sofia).  Whose recording (on guitar) do you like?

PD

[Bachtoven]

Interesting to see that someone did a transcription for guitar of Pictures!  I have a recording for piano that I adore (Richter/Sofia).  Whose recording (on guitar) do you like?

PD

Kazuhito Yamashita, the guitarist who transcribed it, and Jorge Caballero, whom I mentioned in an earlier post. Yes, I love Richter's despite sounding like it was recorded in a TB ward! Also like Horowitz's and Alexander Gavrylyuk's.

[Brahmsian]

Yes, I love Richter's despite sounding like it was recorded in a TB ward!

      

[aligreto]

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons played by the Amsterdam Guitar Trio





I think that this is a very good presentation of this work. The playing is excellent and they all work very well together. However, the main thing for me is that they stay true to the music as far as the transcription allows. I think that it is quite successful. I really like the transcription and the presentation.


This is an excellent example of a transcription as it takes the Four Seasons, a work that we all know very well, and transcribes it for only three guitars without affecting the integrity of the music. Quite an achievement, I think.

[Bachtoven]

Vivaldi: The Four Seasons played by the Amsterdam Guitar Trio





I think that this is a very good presentation of this work. The playing is excellent and they all work very well together. However, the main thing for me is that they stay true to the music as far as the transcription allows. I think that it is quite successful. I really like the transcription and the presentation.


This is an excellent example of a transcription as it takes the Four Seasons, a work that we all know very well, and transcribes it for only three guitars without affecting the integrity of the music. Quite an achievement, I think.

Agreed. They also recorded some of the Brandenburg Concertos; however, a harpsichordist plays the wild cadenza in the 5th—guess they just couldn't make it work with even 3 guitars!

Another big Bach work that sounds great on guitar is the WTC Book 1 played by the Helios Guitar Quartet.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Kazuhito Yamashita, the guitarist who transcribed it, and Jorge Caballero, whom I mentioned in an earlier post. Yes, I love Richter's despite sounding like it was recorded in a TB ward! Also like Horowitz's and Alexander Gavrylyuk's.

Yamashita did Dvorak New World as well.

[Bachtoven]

Yamashita did Dvorak New World as well.

Yep, and so has Jorge Caballero. Jorge is a little less aggressive, but he has much nicer tone.

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

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Alright folks.    What are some of your favourites works played on a classical guitar, whether it be an original composition for guitar or a transcription?

Nikita Koshkin Usher Waltz.
William Walton 5 Bagatelles.
Mauro Giuliani Grande Overture.
Granados Danza Espanola No. 5.
Malcolm Arnold Guitar Concerto.
Gershwin Preludes for Piano.
Brouwer Un día de Noviembre, Nuevos Estudios sencillos, Concierto de Lieja.
JSB everything.

[Brahmsian]

Granados Danza Espanola No. 5.

Love the Granados dances also, including this one. I think the number 10 is my current fave. 

[vers la flamme]

As I have the download available and cannot wait for things to "physically arrive"  , I have started listening to this, and it is utterly delightful! 

Saw this post and immediately had to order a copy... 

You know, I'm a guitarist; I've been playing for a long, long time, but I never got really into classical guitar music, either playing (beyond a few Sor studies and other Spanish pieces) or listening (beyond Bach's lute music and a few other things). I'll have to go through this thread and pick out some things to check out.

[Brahmsian]

Saw this post and immediately had to order a copy... 

You know, I'm a guitarist; I've been playing for a long, long time, but I never got really into classical guitar music, either playing (beyond a few Sor studies and other Spanish pieces) or listening (beyond Bach's lute music and a few other things). I'll have to go through this thread and pick out some things to check out.

Oh wow! No, I didn't know you played? Bachtoven and a couple other folks here are also guitar musicians. John MI as well.

I just recently (as in about three days ago)  developed interest in classical guitar music and practically knowing close to nothing about it.

It is quite an interesting world onto its own! 🙂

GuitarNut

[Dry Brett Kavanaugh]

Baranov- excellent execution, nice, deep tone, and sharp compositions.





The albums below could be nice for sampling Brazilian compositions.

[Papy Oli]

Alright folks.    What are some of your favourites works played on a classical guitar, whether it be an original composition for guitar or a transcription?

Beside the Scarlatti/Schmidt album I posted on page 12, the only (   ) guitar CD I otherwise own is this Villa-Lobos one by Norbert Kraft. It is a gem.



That said, with all this talk here, my guitar collection is likely to at least quadruple soon 

[aligreto]

Agreed. They also recorded some of the Brandenburg Concertos; however, a harpsichordist plays the wild cadenza in the 5th—guess they just couldn't make it work with even 3 guitars!

Another big Bach work that sounds great on guitar is the WTC Book 1 played by the Helios Guitar Quartet.

Thank you for pointing out those transcriptions.

[vers la flamme]

Oh wow! No, I didn't know you played? Bachtoven and a couple other folks here are also guitar musicians. John MI as well.

I just recently (as in about three days ago)  developed interest in classical guitar music and practically knowing close to nothing about it.

It is quite an interesting world onto its own! 🙂

GuitarNut

Well, that "you know" was rhetorical and not really directed at anyone but myself as I don't think I ever mentioned here that I play. But yes, classical guitar does seem to be a world unto its own, as for whatever reason it's kind of seen separately from the other classical strings (maybe because of a few differences in the instrument itself from the violin, cello etc; it's plucked rather than bowed, and with a fretted neck?). Anyway, just a reminder to myself to hear some more classical guitar music.

@Oli, I have that Kraft/HVL disc. It is very good.