Bach ..to Guitar / Legendary Guitarists

amuletts — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:46:18 +0000

“The great Segovia is the link here as the man who popularised classical guitar, showing also how well arrangements of Bach’s music are suited to it, and those stars who followed since. Segovia was so impressed by Bream the child prodigy at age 15, that he offered to take him on tour …‘A prince of the guitar has arrived’, claimed Segovia when he first heard young John Williams”.

Julian Bream

[1] Prelude, Fugue & Allegro. 13:22

Andrés Segovia

[2] Prelude (Cello Suite #1 BWV 1007) 2:16

[3] Loure (Cello Suite #3 BWV 1009) 3:40

[4] Siciliano (Violin Sonata #1 BWV 1001) 3:15

[5] Gavotte en Rondeau (Violin Partita #3 BWV 1006) 2:54

[6] Fugue (Violin Sonata #1 BWV 1001) 5:05

[7] Prelude for Lute (BWV 999) 1:15

[8] Bourrée (Lute Suite #1 BWV 996) 1:29

[9] Gavottes (Cello Suite #6 BWV 1012) 3:48

[10] Chaconne (Violin Partita #2 BWV 1004) 13:52

John Williams

Cello Suite #3 (BWV 1009 trans. Duarte) [21:55]

[11] Prelude 3:56 [12] Allemande 4:02 [13] Courante 3:24

[14] Sarabande 2:47 [15] Bourrées 4:09 [16] Gigue 3:35

John Williams: Guitar Magician

amuletts — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:41:29 +0000

‘A prince of the guitar has arrived in the musical world’ (Segovia) “the guitarist’s skill must be exercised rather more fully, though you would not think so from John Williams’ performance – invariably splendid; so is the recording” “I, personally, enjoy Duarte’s guitar transcriptions of the Bach Suites for cello played thus even more than as originally conceived. The Scarlatti pieces are a Sonata transcribed by Segovia, and Gavotte excellently transcribed by Ablóniz. Recommended enthusiastically!
“Throughout, the excellence of the programming is matched by that of the playing and of the recording.” (Gramophone)

J.S. Bach: Suite No.3 for Cello BWV1009

1. Prelude 3.56 4. Sarabande 2.47
2. Allemande 4.02 5. Bourrée 1 & 2 4.09
3. Courante 3.24 6. Gigue 3.35
7. Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata in E minor (transcr. Segovia) 2.58
8. Alessandro Scarlatti: Gavotte (transcr. Miguel Ablóniz) 3.06
9. Fernando Sor: Variations on a theme of Mozart Op.9 6.42
10. Andrés Segovia: Oración 3.11
11. Andrés Segovia: Estudio 2.06
12. Paquita Madriguera: Humorada 1.48
13. Alexander Tansman: Barcarolle 3.16
14. Enrique Granados: La Maja de Goya (transcr. Miguel Llobet) 4.44
15. Antonio Lauro: Vals Criollo 2.37
16. Isaac Albéniz: Torre Bermeja 4.05

Manuel Ponce: Three Mexican Popular Songs

17. La Pajarera 1.34 18. Por ti mi Corazón 3.10 19. La Valentina 1.45
20. Heitor Villa Lobos: Étude No.1 1.58
21. Jorge Gomez Crespo: Norteña 3.25
22. John Duarte: Variations on Catalan Folk Song “Canco del Llabre” 9.28

John Williams – Alto CD

Bach ..to Guitar / Legendary Guitarists

John Williams: Guitar Magician