
Naxos arrives at the fourth installment in its complete cycle of Napoléon Coste’s guitar music. The influential 19th century French guitarist and composer wrote in
When writing for guitar Toru Takemitsu managed to make his free-floating runs, prismatic chord clusters, and sparsely populated textures fit snugly and naturally within the
Vintage Viennese (as the pointless album title has it)revisits Beethoven’s early Op. 8 Serenade, played here by flute, viola, and guitar in an arrangement by
All previous recordings of the Villa-Lobos 1928 Guitar Etudes stem from the version printed and published in 1957, bearing a dedication to Andres Segovia. David
To know only the popular Vals Criollo among Antonio Lauro’s Venezuelan Waltzes for guitar is like knowing just one Chopin Mazurka, Scarlatti Sonata, Haydn Symphony,
Sony Classical has become ground zero for American bluegrass/classical projects from “Appalachia Waltz” to “Appalachian Journey” to “Short Trip Home”. (A few years ago, who
Takemitsu was in the process of writing a flute concerto for Patrick Gallois when he died in 1996 at the comparatively young age of 65.
If ever there were a recording that should be played in small doses, it’s this one! Alan Hovhaness’ serene, metaphysical, meditative music can send you
It took a long time for Mark-Anthony Turnage’s concert-length chamber cycle Blood on the Floor to be released in the U.S. Was it worth the
Alan Hovhaness has written a tremendous amount of music in his long and illustrious career, so perhaps it is wrong of anyone to expect each