Tag: Fernando Sor
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Julian Bream Plays Spanish Music and Johann Sebastian Bach
Guitarist Julian Bream (15 July 1933 – 14 August 2020) burst onto the international scene in the mid-1950s with a series of recordings that garnered rave reviews around the world. The present release compiles some of the best selections from these early recordings, carefully remastered by Paul Arden-Taylor.
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John Williams: Guitar Magician
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…
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Andres Segovia – Maestro
Segovia was in his 95th year when he died in 1987. By then he had become the most famous guitarist of his day and had been responsible for enhancing both the status and the repertoire of the guitar immeasurably. He was touring and playing right up to the end and gave his last recital in…
