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ID: RES10165 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Guitar James Akers (romantic guitar)
The increasingly in-demand guitarist and lutenist James Akers makes his Resonus solo debut with a stunning album of works for romantic guitar.
Akers provides a captivating programme of works - consisting almost entirely of world premiere recordings - by guitar legends from continental Europe, all inspired by the Scottish landscape its music and its literature.
Featuring Mauro Giuliani & Luigi Legnani (from Italy), Fernando Sor (from Spain) and Johann Kaspar Mertz (from Hungary), this seductive album draws the listener in to the magical, diverse, and even haunting, Scottish influences that bewitched each of these nineteenth century composers. |
18.00 eur Buy |
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ID: RES10182 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano and Guitar James Akers (romantic guitar) & Gary Branch (fortepiano)
Period guitarist James Akers returns to the Resonus Classics label with this programme of Classical works for guitar and piano. Joined by duo partner, fortepianist Gary Branch, this memorable recording presents music written with domestic settings in mind by some of the leading composers of the time, most of whom were resident in Vienna at some point in their lifetimes - Mauro Giuliani, Ferdinando Carulli, Ignaz Moscheles & Anton Diabelli.
Recorded on period instruments, including a rare original 1826 fortepiano by Conrad Graf, this elegant album marks one of the last to be made in Kent’s Finchcocks Musical Museum. |
18.00 eur Buy |
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