The Essential Julian Bream
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Composer: Dionysio AguadoComposer: Malcolm Arnold
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Composer: Luigi Boccherini
Composer: Benjamin Britten
Composer: Manuel de Falla
Composer: Mauro Giuliani
Composer: Enrique Granados
Composer: Francisco Guerau
Composer: Joaquin Malats
Composer: Emilio Pujol
Composer: Joaquin Rodrigo
Composer: Albert Roussel
Composer: Gaspar Sanz
Composer: Fernando Sor
Composer: Francisco Tarrega
Composer: Joaquin Turina
Composer: Heitor Villa-Lobos
Composer: William Walton
Performer: Julian Bream Consort
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2008-01-15
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- Allegro
- Lento; Tempo di valse
- Alla cubana
- Sempre espressivo
- Con slancio
- The Miller's Dance
- Courtly Dances. March
- Courtly Dances. Corante
- Courtly Dances. Pavan
- Courtly Dances. Morris Dance
- Courtly Dances. Galliard
- Courtly Dances. La Volta
- Courtly Dances. March: Finale
- 1. Allegro moderato
- 2. Adagio
- 3. Allegro
- Introduction: Andante largo
- Theme: Andante moderato
- Variations 1 to 5
- Introduction and Fandango
- Lento
Music reviews of The Essential Julian Bream
Music Review: The performer's choice
Rating: 3 Stars
I should make clear at the outset that I don't own this (double) album. However, over the years I have accumulated all the recordings in previous manifestations. Since Amazon does not (as I write) list the contents, I give it below. By my computation, the total time is well over two hours.
1) Recuerdos de la Alhambra [T?rrega]
2-4) Studies No. 7, 8 & 12 [Villa-Lobos]
5) Serenata andaluza [Malats]
6) Fandanguillo, Op. 36 [Turina]
7) Segovia, Op. 29 [Roussel]
8) Bagatelles (5) [Walton]
9) Homenaje "pour Le tombeau de Claude Debussy" [Falla]
10) The Miller's Dance [Falla]
11) Invocaci?n y danza [Rodrigo]
12-18) Courtly Dances from Gloriana, Op. 53 [Britten]
19) Gallardas [Sanz]
20) Canarios [Sanz]
21) Villano [Guerau]
22) Canario [Guerau]
23) Trio Sonata, BWV 525 [Bach]
24) Rondo Brillant Op. 2/2 [Aguado]
25) Variations on a Theme of Mozart, Op. 9 [Sor]
26) Introduction and Fandango [Boccherini]
27) Rossiniana No. 1, Op. 119 [Giuliani]
28) Valses po?ticos (7), H. 147 [Granados]
29) Guitar Concerto, Op. 67: Lento [Arnold]
The trouble with "Essential", "Best of" and "Ultimate" collections is of course that the choice can never be other than personal. In this regard, however, the present album has an especial distinction: the choice is (it says here) by Mr Bream himself.
This being the case, there are some some surprising omissions: Britten's Nocturnal, written for Bream and considered by many (although not by me) to be the greatest piece ever written for classical guitar; nothing by Dowland, reportedly the performer's favourite composer; in fact, no Renaissance lute music at all, although he was one of its greatest modern pioneers.
Another oddity is that RCA should add to its many Bream anthologies at the same time as it is apparently busy deleting many of the artist's earlier albums, a source of much wailing and gnashing of teeth among those who were too young to buy them when they first appeared.
And so this compilation only gets three stars from me, despite the five-star performances; it's simply too much of a dog's breakfast, and it's not even a DVD Audio or Super Audio CD like Popular Classics. If I had no Bream recordings whatsoever, I would get the original albums -- what remains of them.
General CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Quintets
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( A ) > Arnold, Malcolm
- ( B ) > Bach, Johann Sebastian
- Boccherini, Luigi
- Britten, Sir Benjamin
- ( F ) > Falla, Manuel de
- ( G ) > Granados, Enrique
- Giuliani, Mauro
- ( T ) > Tarrega, Francisco
- Turina, Joaquin
- ( V ) > Villa-Lobos, Heitor
- ( W ) > Walton, Sir William
- Forms & Genres > Concertos > General
- Serenades & Divertimentos
- Suites
- Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > General
- Classical (c.1770-1830) > Forms & Genres > Chamber Music
- General
- Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Composers > Villa-Lobos, Heitor
- Instruments > Keyboard > Organ
- Piano
- Strings > Guitar
- Opera & Vocal > General
- Languages > English
- Arnold, Malcolm - Works by Arnold
- Bach, Johann Sebastian - Works by J.S. Bach
- Boccherini, Luigi - Works by Boccherini
- Britten, Sir Benjamin - Works by Britten
- Classical - Historical Periods - Modern, 20th, & 21st Century - Composers - Villa-Lobos, Heitor - General
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