The Segovia Collection, Vol. 3: My Favorite Works
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Composer: Isaac AlbenizComposer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco
Composer: Enrique Granados
Composer: Fernando Sor
Composer: Francisco Tarrega
Composer: Federico Moreno Torroba
Composer: Joaquin Turina
Performer: Andr?s Segovia
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Mca
Soundtracks:
- 3. Sevilla
- 1. Granada
- Estudios (Nos. 10, 15, 19 & 6)
- 2. Leyenda
Music reviews of The Segovia Collection, Vol. 3: My Favorite Works
Music Review: Great performances, CD transfer sucks
Rating: 3 Stars
This disc has no recording data, as have Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, but the Sor Studies, "Recuerdos" and the "Capricho Diabolico" are asterisked as mono. This would seem to imply that the others are stereo, but they apppear to me to be victims of the grisly process known as "electronically rechannelling to simulate stereo". In the case of a solo guitarist, this usually means adding some echo, and on this disc it sounds more appropriate to Hank Marvin then Segovia. The effect is like sitting in the living room, listening to someone playing in the bathroom.
The first Segovia record I ever bought (in France, as it happens) was a Deutsche Grammophon EP containing four magnificent (mono, naturally) performances: "Sevilla", "Torre Bermeja", and Granados's "Spanish Dances 5 & 10". "Sevilla" is the identical recording to the one on this CD, but, worn though that EP is, it still sounds better. The same applies to the "Tonadilla" (*the* definitive performance of that piece) and the "Piezas Caracter?sticas", which are from the superb three-record "Golden Jubilee" album recorded in 1958.
A great deal of though went into designing the CD format, even in tiny details (e.g. to scan an English bookshelf or record rack, you turn your head to the right; a Spanish one, to the left. Have you noticed that the spines of a CD can have their title either way?). CDs were conceived as an expensive, up-market commodity, and no one was sure they would catch on; that is why early CDs all have indexing for the movements of long works.
With CDs succeeding beyond anyone's wildest dreams, this careful wooing of the purchaser has in many cases gone by the board -- as here. Neither the Torroba nor the Sor has any indexing, so that if you just want to listen to (say) "Albada", you're S.O.L. In this respect, the CD is *worse* than a gramophone record, for at least with the latter you can move the pick-up arm forward.
In short, Vol. 3 is a disgrace and should be withdrawn and redone.
I would have liked to have had a CD version of the original "Golden Jubilee", in glorious mono, but now I don't suppose we shall ever see it (although some of it has now appeared on the remastered Deutsche Grammophon Collection). The latter also contains the Torroba work -- with proper banding!
The total time is 69'24".
Description of The Segovia Collection, Vol. 3: My Favorite Works
It's a strange fact, but many of the most popular Spanish guitar pieces are actually transcriptions of piano originals. Of course, many of these actually use the piano in imitation of the guitar, and if a guitarist of Segovia's ability had been around at the turn of the century, there might have been a lot more authentic guitar music written than we now have. Segovia's particular gift, evident in the Albeniz pieces, is to make this piano music sound like guitar originals. In short, this essential CD contains many of the most famous Spanish guitar favorites in inimitable performances. --David HurwitzGeneral CDs
- Styles > Classical
- Chamber Music > General
- Featured Composers, A-Z > ( G ) > Granados, Enrique
- ( T ) > Tarrega, Francisco
- Turina, Joaquin
- Featured Performers, A-Z > ( S ) > Segovia, Andr?s
- Forms & Genres > Suites
- Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > General Modern
- Instruments > Strings > Guitar
- Opera & Vocal > General
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