
The Triple Quartet features the Kronos Quartet playing one part over a tape, on which it also plays the other two parts. The effect is
A former professor of classical guitar at the New England Conservatory, Frank Wallace is a New Hampshire-based guitarist and vocalist who leads the medieval and
This is the third complete cycle of J.S. Bach’s sonatas and partitas for violin solo BWV 1001-1006 transcribed for a plucked instrument to be released
This traversal of Villa-Lobos’ guitar music begins with a most unfortunate reading of the Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 in an arrangement for voice and guitar.
Here’s a veritable guitar grab bag that mixes classic repertoire, Chopin transcriptions, and original compositions. Roland Dyens commences with Federico Torroba’s Torija, a plaintive, lyrical
This is an exceptional disc all round. Composer Leonardo Balada (b.1933) pioneered a fusion between ethnic Catalan and Moorish idioms and the most progressive avant-garde
This recording begs an important question: What connection is there between a story and someone’s musical idea for representing it? What is a third person–the
Did Domenico Scarlatti, who is most famous for his collection of more than 500 keyboard sonatas, actually write similar works for guitar duo? Unless you
Now before you turn up your nose and close your ears to the prospect of Baroque and Classical works being performed by an orchestra of
If you normally shy away from Baroque Guitar music, put on this CD and go immediately to track 15. The martial-flavored opening of Scarlatti’s Sonata