NICOLAI PAGANINI
Paganini: Music for Violin and Guitar II - 6 Sonatas Op.2 / Duets Scott St John (violin) Simon Wynberg (guitar) [ Naxos / CD ] "violinists, guitarists and lovers of winsomeness for its own sake should revel in these very well recorded discs" Gramophone |
NICOLAI PAGANINI
Paganini: Music for Violin & Guitar Vol 1 - 6 Sonatas Op.3 Scott St John (violin) Simon Wynberg (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 5/May/1994 ] "The sheer joy which emits from this music making is at once infectious and hypnotic" Gramophone |
REICH / CAGE / CARTER / DASHOW / KAMPELA
Changes Arturo Tallini (Electric Guitar,, Prepared Guitar,, Classical Guitar,, Vocalise), Domenico Ascione (Pre-recorded tape of electric guitar), and, James [ Naxos / CD - released 25/Nov/2022 ] Repertoire for solo guitar has gained in depth and quality in recent decades, with acoustic and electronic techniques enjoying an ever more imaginative coexistence. Arturo Tallini's recital explores contrasting approaches for his instrument,... |
ARCILA / OROZCO / BECERRA / ARDILA / BIGNEY / SUPA
Same River Twice - Works for Guitar Billy Arcila (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Dec/2023 ] Billy Arcila, raised in Medellín, Colombia, has lived in the United States for over 40 years, where he teaches and performs as one of California's foremost guitarists. |
CARLO DOMENICONI
Domeniconi: Sinbad - A Fairy Tale For Solo Guitar, Op. 49 Celil Refik Kaya (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 10/Mar/2023 ] Renowned both as a guitarist and a composer, Carlo Domeniconi has written over 150 compositions, combining Eastern and Western elements in striking and individual ways. Sinbad, a Fairy Tale for Solo Guitar is a perfect example of his imaginative... |
ANTHONY BURGESS
Burgess: Complete Guitar Quartets Complete Guitar Quartets [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Sep/2023 ] Composer and novelist, Anthony Burgess, was a unique creative artist whose dual mastery of music and literature resulted in a career strewn with an output of remarkable diversity. Burgess came into contact with the Aïghetta Guitar Quartet while... |
REGINALD SMITH BRINDLE
Smith Brindle: Complete works for solo guitar Vol. 1 Duilio Meucci (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 12/May/2023 ] Although Smith Brindle composed a variety of works including an opera, he is best known for his guitar music. The poetic and lyrical Etruscan Preludes express the mystery of an ancient and lost civilisation, while the enigmatic El Polifemo de oro... |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Guitar Recital Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - released 19/Apr/2024 ] Georgi Dimitrov-Jojo, winner of the 2022 European Bach Guitar Award, presents a selection of works transcribed for guitar from the rich repertoire of Johann Sebastian Bach. Arrangements made for different instruments were customary during the Baroque... |
BACH / DE BIASI / ROSSINI / OURKOUZOUNOV / RAVEL / KREBS / ASSAD
Works For Guitar Sextet Guitarra a Seis [ Naxos Guitar Laureate Series / CD - released 14/Oct/2022 ] With specially made instruments and a range that can emulate that of a whole orchestra, the acclaimed Guitarra a Seis bring us a colourful programme that includes works written specially for the ensemble. |
SCARLATTI / CRAEYVANGER / MANGORÉ / BRAHMS / DEBUSSY / etc
Guitar Recital - Lovro Peretić Lovro Peretić (guitar) [ Naxos Laureate Series / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] For his guitar laureate recording, Croatian-born Lovro Peretić has selected a panoramic programme that reaches back to the 18th century and forward to modern times. of the two Scarlatti sonata arrangements one is by Peretić who has also transcribed a... |
JUSTIN HOLLAND
Holland: Guitar Works and Arrangements Christopher Mallett (guitar) [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 10/Feb/2023 ] Justin Holland was an African American, born free in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the most influential and important American guitarist of the 19th century and wrote the first published and best-selling guitar method in the country. He was also a... |
GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
Telemann: Chamber Music for Bassoon and Guitar Rainer Seidel (bassoon) Daniel Valentin Marx (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 8/Apr/2022 ] Georg Philipp Telemann was the most famous of all German composers during his lifetime and a master of all musical genres. Every piece in this album dates from his triumphant years in Hamburg, where he was the city's music director. |
SCHUBERT / DEBUSSY / MOZART / SCHUMANN / GRANADOS
Children's Corner - Music for Guitar Johan Smith (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 7/Jul/2023 ] Multi-award-winning guitarist Johan Smith has considerably extended his instrument's repertoire with this selection of transcriptions celebrating childhood in a variety of ways. These popular piano works - Schubert's Erlkönig, Granados's atmospheric... |
CLAUDIO SANTORO
Santoro: Fantasias Sul América, Sonata for Solo Violin Soloists of the Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra [ Naxos / CD - released 27/Jan/2023 ] Claudio Santoro was one of Brazil's leading composers, having written a considerable amount of solo, chamber and orchestral music, including arguably the most important symphonic cycle ever written in that country. |
NAPOLEON COSTE
Coste: Guitar Works Volume 6 An Tran (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 9/Jun/2023 ] The publication of a facsimile edition of Napoléon Coste's complete works in the 1980s brought the composer-guitarist's name before the public after decades of neglect. A student of Sor, he was the most eminent French guitarist of the 19th century... |
HUANG Tao / LIN Huanqi / XIA Weinan
Chinese Romance Xianji Liu (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 11/Aug/2023 ] Chinese Romance presents a selection of recent compositions that are all deeply evocative, referring to specific imagery and romantic experiences for their inspiration. These poetic and lyrical pieces explore the guitar's delicate timbres with nuance... |
AARON JAY KERNIS / JORGE LIDERMAN / STEVEN MACKEY
New American Chamber Music with Guitar Aaron Jay Kernis (piano) / Hila Plitmann (soprano) / Axel Strauss (violin) / David Tanenbaum (guitar & conductor) / San Francisco Conservatory Guitar [ Naxos American Classics / CD - released 20/Oct/2010 ] Each of these new pieces was written for the artists who perform them here. |
ANTONIO LAURO
Lauro: Guitar Music Vol. 1 - Venezuelan Waltzes for Guitar Adam Holzman (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 31/Jan/2000 ] Now, 20 years later, comes another masterly recording by Adam Holzman: in may ways it raises the benchmark still further." - American Record Guide |
FERNANDO SOR
Grandes Sonates Op 22 & 25 / etc Adam Holzman (guitar) [ Naxos Guitar Collection / CD - released 1/Oct/2009 ] "...this is a recording to make many new friends for this composer, with fine performances full of clarity, sharp articulation and stylistic assurance and a clear and focused recorded sound." - Classical Guitar - September 1996 |
MERTZ
Guitar Music Vol.1 Adam Holzman (guitar) [ Naxos / CD - released 3/Oct/2002 ] The American guitarist Adam Holzman enjoys a distinguished international reputation. |