Great recording by Bart Celis, too!Ĭhoros No. 11.) Still, I highly recommend this disc, which I’ve listened to a lot, always getting new things out of it. (That said, some are marvelous standalone pieces, like the jaunty No. And while some of them sound fiendishly difficult, and no doubt mastering all the études would aid in the playing of the more formal Villa-Lobos pieces, as a group they are not as compelling a listening experience. Because they’re études, presumably intended to teach specific skills, they don’t develop the way conventional pieces do, so there’s not as much going in some of them. I’m probably in the minority on this, but for me the Douze Études pour Guitare that make up the second half of the disc are not nearly as interesting. The speedy passages flow with seemingly effortless elegance, the slow ones ooze heartfelt emotion. 1, the five-part Suite Populaire Brésilienne (I particularly love that lilting “Gavotta-Chôro”), and, best of all, Cinq Préludes pour Guitar, which offers an astounding range of melodic flights, from pretty uptempo romps to the exquisite “Lento.” Depreter is masterful throughout, his active left hand wringing extra emotion out certain notes, his right hand eliciting subtle tonal shifts with ease. But to me they sound even better heard in the context of other Villa-Lobos guitar works, as they’re presented here, particularly the first half, which features some of what I feel is the most beautiful music ever written for classical guitar: Chôros No. Of course, many of these pieces pop up in the repertoires of countless classical guitarists around the world, and most of them sit comfortably in mixed programs. Heitor Villa-Lobos: Complete Works for Guitar Soloīelgian guitarist extraordinaire Jan Depreter is not the first person to record the complete solo guitar works of Villa-Lobos (Fabio Zanon and Norbert Kraft are among those who tackled them as a unit, and they are spread across ), nor will he likely be the last, but his recording from the summer of 2018 is a wonderful compendium, executed with the faultless technique, power, and elan we’ve come to expect from Depreter. To see links to all of our online album listings/reviews, click here. version), so check your favorite places that sell CDs and downloads, as well as your favorite streaming sites! You can listen to some of these on various of streaming services, but we always encourage you to support the artists by actually buying anything you like! Obviously we cannot research and report every outlet or online business where these albums are sold (Amazon, for instance, has outlets in many different countries/regions, but we generally link to the U.S. If you have a CD you’d like to submit to us, here’s our NEW ADDRESS: Here are three CDs I like that have come into the Classical Guitar office within the past several months. Some weeks we take a peek at recent albums or sheet music releases.
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