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Uplifting, imaginative music in many varieties gushed from Agustín Barrios’ fecund brain directly into his agile hands and perpetually singing guitar. John Williams’ landmark Barrios
Apparently Alexander-Sergei Ramírez is incapable of eliciting the slightest ugly sound from his guitar. In the three-movement composition La Catedral that opens his all-Barrios recital,
Here’s a well-curated and splendidly remastered four-CD overview of Andrés Segovia’s recordings for American Decca. Disc 1 features concertos tailored to Segovia’s singular artistry, including
Guitarist Sharon Isbin never has been afraid of new works; indeed, she has commissioned and premiered more new concertos than any other guitarist and has
It is difficult to say where this music goes wrong. New York-based American composer Bernadette Speach has a way with harmony and pacing–very elegant and
For many listeners, the chief interest of this recording will be the presence of popular fiddler/composer Mark O’Connor and the premiere of his piece Let
John Duarte writes some of the most idiomatic and memorable guitar music to be found today, and what better way to introduce listeners to his
John Duarte always composed for the most purist reason there is–the sheer love of it. Beginning in his teens as an amateur jazz guitarist, he
There’s a certain cartoonish zeal to the avant-garde music of Olga Neuwirth. From an orchestra coupled with live electronics, she can draw some sounds that
It’s Bach; it’s the guitar; it’s transcriptions of works originally written for other instruments. We’ve heard this stuff before, the kind of thing guitarists resort
