Spanish Guitar Recital

Spanish Guitar Recital

Spanish Guitar Recital
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Composer: Isaac Albeniz
Composer: Enrique Granados
Composer: Joaquin Malats
Composer: Emilio Pujol
Edition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2001-10-23
Music Label: RCA
Soundtracks:
  1. Mallora, Op.202
  2. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Cataluna
  3. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Granada
  4. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Sevilla
  5. Ste Espanola, Op.47: Cadiz
  6. Cordoba (Cantos De Espana, Op.323 No.4)
  7. Dedicatoria (From Cuentos Para La Juventud)
  8. La Maja De Goya (Tonadilla)
  9. Danza Espanola No.4 (Villanesca)
  10. Valses Poeticos
  11. Danza Espanola No.5
  12. Ser
  13. Tango Espanol
  14. Guajira

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Music Review: MUSIC OF CATALUNYA
Rating: 5 Stars

First, there are 14 tracks on this record, not 13. The item not mentioned comes after #7 listed here, and it is a transcription of an `old-style song' by Granados entitled La Maja de Goya. How tactful it is to call this music Spanish is something else I'm unsure of, all four composers being Catalan. Only the final two numbers are actually works written for the guitar, the two pieces by Emilio Pujol who died as recently as 1980 after a lifespan approximately as long as the combined total of any two of the three other composers who share this disc with him. The remaining works are transcriptions of piano compositions (except for the unmentioned song). The liner note does not state that these transcriptions are by Bream himself, but I had assumed that and I find the fact confirmed elsewhere.

This record is nothing short of heavenly, both the playing and the remarkable recorded quality that seems to bring the hearer face to face with the great Bream in person. It is all easy listening, and there are no show-off virtuoso numbers although several can't be simple, or at least not simple to play like this. For variety and versatility of tone, rhythm that is both strong and flexible, lyric beauty and a shining sense of affection for and understanding of the music I don't believe I have ever heard a guitar recital to surpass this. The Albeniz and Granados pieces that make up most of the selection were recorded in 1982, the other three items in the following year. I can't even attempt to name a favourite, but as I have a couple of piano performances of the `Spanish dance #5' of Granados played under the title `Andaluza' by no less than Michelangeli the comparison is going to be fascinating.

The liner note does its job quite adequately, which is more than I could say for some. The recording I've already mentioned - simply stunning. These pieces come under the classification `classical', and I have no quarrel with that so long as it doesn't deter lovers of the instrument who would, I have no doubt at all, swoop on this recital if it were called popular, light classical or something of that kind. Music is just music in the end, and this is very good music and very unchallenging music. As for guitar players, I'm sometimes inclined to think that there's Bream and there's everyone else.
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