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| | Baroque Guitar | | | Music Style : | | General | | Record Label : | | RCA | | Release Date : | | 1991-06-21 | | Store Price : | | $6.98 | | Artistopia's Price: $5.97 | | Usually ships in 24 hours | | |
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CD Tracks/Songs
Disc 11. Pavanas for guitar 2. Canarios [I], for guitar (Instrucción de Música sobre la Guitarra Española, Book 1) 3. Work(s) 4. Work(s) 5. Fantasie and Minuet for guitar 6. Sonata for lute in D major (London MS No. 13), SC 18: Passacaille 7. Work(s) 8. Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pièces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Prelude 9. Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pièces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Allemande 10. Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pièces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Courante 11. Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pièces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Sarabande 12. Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pièces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Gavotte 13. Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pièces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Menuet 1 and 2 14. Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pièces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Bourrée 15. Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pièces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Gigue 16. Tombeau sur la mort de Monsieur Comte de Logy, for lute in B flat minor (London MS), Smith 210 17. Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Passagio... Presto 18. Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Allemande 19. Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Courante 20. Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Sarabande 21. Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Bourree 22. Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Gigue
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Bream reigns Supreme Submitted on: 2009-10-31 |
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I have listned to this CD over and over since I purchased it several months ago. I must state that this is a great collection of guitar music that few others will be able to duplicate any time soon! Bream has been criticized for a technique that is some-what sloppy and values interpretaion over perfection. I do not hear that anywhere in this recording! Take for example the Bach fugue in A minor! This track is without a doubt the best classical guitar that I think I have ever heard. There are only a hand full of artists that will even acheive this level of performance skill.
This is a collection of guitar pieces form one of the greatest periods in Western music. A true "Must Have" for the lover of classical and guitar music! |
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Beautiful Submitted on: 2008-10-08 |
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| Great listening when you want to relax or even when you're working. Anyone into classic guitar and of course, the wonderful period of Baroque music, I highly recommend this. |
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Superb baroque music festival for the guitar Submitted on: 2008-02-11 |
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| I have most of these pieces on a book of Essential Classical Guitar, as I'm picking up the instrument again. This is not only an enlightnening CD, it's just great music, very well played. I can compare some of the pieces to other recordings in compilations, also very well played. But Julian Bream breathes, does not put the accent on virtuosity but more on musical phrasing, takes a slightly slower tempo sometimes (the lovely Bach prelude in d). I love playing it on my iPod in the background, it soothes me while I'm doing mechanical work. All the CD is worth it, esp. at this price. I would've paid full price for it. Unlike other reviewers, I'm not at all bothered by the recording quality, it's perfectly adequate; although there is no attempt to dissimulate the hiss due to shifting between positions, there isn't as much of it to disrupt listening, and the sound is otherwise rich and full with harmonies. In fact, the (very occasional) hissing enhances the "real" aspect of the recording so I don't mind. I hear them too when I play (although I'm not an advanced player by any means). The most dynamic pieces (Sanz' Canarios, Bach's Prelude and fugue, Weiss' Fantasy, Bach's suite allemande, bourree and gigue) alternate with more pensive, almost lethargic pieces by de Visee. Overall, this is a great CD that I put among the top five or six in my classical guitar collection. Also "Essential Guitar" compilation has some of these pieces and more romantic and 19th century pieces, if you want to compare. I also highly recommend that CD. |
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Bream does a superlative job Submitted on: 2007-11-30 |
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| Bream was one of the best guitarists in the history of the instrument (was, since he retired a few years back). This may sound extreme, but nearly all his recordings bear witness to this. In addition to impeccable technique and musicianship, he shows a control of color and shading second to none. He is somewhat less romantic than Segovia, but his range of expression is just as varied. In some later recordings, Bream sounds as if he chooses beauty of sound at the expense of using slightly deliberate pacing, but in all earlier outings (like this one), he combines tonal beauty with perfectly chosen tempos (or tempi if you prefer), a great sense of enjoyment, even of fun when appropriate. Bream always reveals something remarkable in the music that goes beyond nearly all other players. |
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Awesome Submitted on: 2007-10-24 |
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| This is a CD that is not only unusual - Guitar but well worth having in your collection. |
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