Classical Baroque Favorites Baroque Guitar Favourites (1994)
Baroque Guitar Favourites (1994)
Baroque Guitar Favourites (1994)
Vivaldi, Antonio Garcia, Gerald, arranger(s) Violin Concerto in E Minor, RV 277, "Il Favorito" (guitar trans. Garcia) 01. I. Allegro 00:05:22 02. II. Andante 00:05:56 03. III. Allegro 00:05:22 Vivaldi, Antonio Trio Sonata in C Major, RV 82 04. I. Allegro non molto 00:04:05 05. II. Larghetto - Lento 00:04:13 06. III. Allegro 00:02:33 Trio Sonata in G Minor, RV 85 07. I. Andante molto 00:04:14 08. II. Larghetto 00:02:40 09. III. Allegro 00:02:19 Vivaldi, Antonio Garcia, Gerald, arranger(s) Lute Concerto in D Major, RV 93 (guitar trans. Garcia) 10. I. Allegro giusto 00:03:45 11. II. Largo 00:04:38 12. III. Allegro 00:02:31 Bach, Johann Sebastian Garcia, Gerald, arranger(s) Harpsichord Concerto in D Minor, BWV 1052 (guitar trans. Garcia) 13. I. Allegro 00:09:14 14. II. Adagio 00:08:21 15. III. Allegro 00:10:10 Gerald Garcia – Guitar Maria Licková – Harpsichord Pavol Gimcik - Cello Karol Petroczi - Viola d'amore Camerata Cassovia Peter Breiner – conductor
Over the last 20 years, the Naxos label has done a great deal to obtain its reputation as one of the leading classical guitar labels. Its very first guitarist was Gerald Garcia, who was not slow to show the way forward by extending the rather limited guitar repertoire by making arrangements of pieces originally written for other instruments. This is what he has done here, too: None of the music on this disc was written for guitar, it is all arranged by Garcia himself, who plays a modern guitar and definitely not a baroque instrument. This rather makes the title of the disc a misnomer: no baroque guitar, no guitar music at all in the original, and certainly no guitar favourites as these arrangements were only made shortly before the disc was recorded! It would have been more to the point to entitle the whole: "Baroque Favourites arranged for Modern Guitar", but I suppose the marketing strategists wouldn't have liked that very much! --- Leslie Richford, amazon.com
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