Steve Lacy – Station/TAO, Nov. 7, 1970
Steve Lacy – Revolutionary Suicide, April 7, 1973
Joe Diorio – Solo Guitar
Aphex Twin – 10 Mellow Tracks for Free
Naqsh Trio – Narrante
Gallery – Gallery
Double Image – Dawn
Terje Rypdal – Descendre
Terje Rypdal – After the Rain
Leo Smith – the Kabel Years
Katrina Krimsky – Four Moons/a Rainbow in Curved Air
The Hired Hands: a Tribute to Bruce Langhorne
Larry Coryell, Badi Assad & John Abercrombie – Three Guitars
Frank Sinatra – Conducts Tone Poems Of Color
Monthly Archives: February 2017
Marco Oppedisano -The Good News (for classical or electric guitar quartet)
Folks, Marco Oppedisano is from Brooklyn and he writes guitar music. Listen:
recorded in December 2016 by the Quarto Ensamble.
Marco Oppedisano
http://www.marcooppedisano.net
Quarto Ensamble
http://www.quarto-cl.webnode.cl
Score and parts are available for purchase/streaming at:
http://marcooppedisano.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/sm-273685_the_good_news_for_electric_or_classical_guitar_quartet.html
Music by Marco Oppedisano
Out Your Ear (ASCAP)
Two out of print ECM albums: Double Image & Gallery
Two very out of print albums on ECM records, probably never released on CD. Maybe some kind of re-release is in order?
Gallery ECM 1206 David Samuels – vibraphone, marimba Paul McCandless – oboe, english horn, soprano saxophone David Darling – cello Ratzo Harris – upright bass Michael DiPasqua – drums, percussion |
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Double Image – Dawn ECM 1146 David Samuels – vibraphone, marimba David Friedman – vibraphone, marimba Harvie Swartz – bass Michael DiPasqua – drums, percussion |
Derelict Hands, classical gtr duet, Arnold Schoenberg, Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19
Derelict Hands performing Sechs kleine Klavierstücke, Op. 19 (or Six Little Piano Pieces) by Arnold Schoenberg, arranged by Calum Borthwick for classical guitar duo, from their debut album Eyes to the Future. The album and arrangement are available at:
https://www.derelicthands.com/webstore/
https://www.derelicthands.com
Assad Bros classical guitar duo play George Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue
I need a CD of this, I’ve been looking for a YerTube version for awhile.
Assad Bros classical guitar duo play George Gershwin’s Rhapsody In Blue
Ralph Towner, Horizons Touched
Not a jazz guitarist in any conventional sense, but an improviser of eloquence and imagination, nor strictly a classical guitarist, Ralph Towner is a category unto himself. originally a pianist, he has always sought to access on guitar the piano’s harmonic potential…
As a guitarist who specialises in solo concerts of original compositions and improvisation, I often think of myself as a raconteur of the abstract. It’s my contention that music unfolds to the listener as does a work of literature, only without the specific meanings of written or spoken words.
Each time I plant myself on stage before an audience, I proceed from the first sound to attempt to develop a musical continuity that will draw the listener into a world populated with a cast of sonic characters playing out an existence replete with all the emotions that could be suggested in a play or any work of literature.
Before a concert I choose from a list of pieces that I have composed, each of which has a unique quality that establishes a particular atmosphere that I can develop further with improvisation. I always begin with an improvised introduction to a composition, feeling out the sound of the room and the energy in the audience. An advantage of being an improvising soloist is that you are free to alter, or depart from, the form of a piece at any point if you sense that the ‘story’ needs a turn of events. In this respect, I consider myself as part of the audience, and if all is going well, I am swept along with everyone as to the shape and course the music takes.
Music, in my opinion, is a social art that combines the energies and contributions of multiple musicians and listeners. Being a soloist seems antithetical to this notion, but I feel the cultivation and imaginative use of a broad variety of musical colours and techniques invest the music with an orchestral aura that transcends the audience’s perception that it is being produced by a single player. Once the music has begun, it ceases to be a matter of how many are playing and what instruments are being played, and becomes rather a passage into a world of infinite sounds that are completely personal to each listener. The less self-conscious the audience and performer become, the better the concert. The most drastic difference for the solo player is that at the conclusion of the concert, the pleasure of discussing the concert you just played with the other musicians in the group isn’t possible. It is ironic that much of my sense of musical interaction in a solo piece has been cultivated by playing in group situations.
So far I haven’t felt any loss of fascination for the art of music. The guitar, for me, has always been an instrument with a bottomless reservoir of musical colours and possibilities. It continues to be a passport into a wondrous realm, and I am grateful for this.
– Ralph Towner, “‘Horizons Touched”
Ralph Towner
Osunbruck, Germany
May 22 & 23, 1998.
Leo Brouwer – 1976 Flamenco Music Amsterdam
Leo Brouwer
Kleine Zaal, Concertgebouw – Amsterdam
1976-10-09 (FM)
Cuban guitarist and composer Leo Brouwer plays a solo recital in the hall of the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The works on the program are all exemplary of Leo Brouwer. Arrangements of Baroque music, his own work and as a final piece of work for guitar and electronics. Due to an injury to his right hand in the early 1980’s, Leo Brouwer stopped performing and switched to composing full-time.
00:00 Six Lute Pieces of the Renaissance 6.55
Anonymous – Transcribed by Oscar Chilesotti
– I. Vaghe belleze et bionde treccie d’oro vedi che per ti moro.
– II. Bianco Fiore.
– III. Danza.
– IV. Gagliarda
– V. Se io m’accorgo
– VI. Saltarello
06:55 Johan Sebastian Bach 13.38
Chaconne from Violin Partita No. 2 BVW 1004
20:33 Domenico Scarlatti 24.12
Six sonatas for harpsichord
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Leo Brouwer
44:43 – Parábola 6.43
51:26 – Canticum 4.30
55:54 – La espiral eterna 8.12
1:04:05 Tres piezas populares argentinas 8.12
– Astor Piazzolla – Uknown Title
– Astor Piazzolla – Uknown Title
– Astor Piazzolla – Uknown Title
1:12:16 Tres piezas populares cubanas 8.26
– Leo Brouwer – Berceuse (Cancion de Cuna)
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1:20:41 Tres piezas populares brasileiras 8.42
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– João Pernambuco – Sons De Carrilhoes
– Antonio Carlos Jobim – Samba de Uma Nota Só
1:29:21 Leo Brouwer 11.36
Metáfora del amor (guitar and tape)
recent listening January 22 – February 14, 2017
Quest – Live in Paris 2010
David Liebman and Richie Beirach – New Life, Live in Cologne 2009
Steve Lacy – the Kiss
Michael Peters – Escape Veloopity
Bionaut – Big Causeway to Gone
Arditti String Quartet – USA
Cecil Taylor – Nefertiti, the Beautiful One Has Come
Ralph Towner – My Foolish Heart
Alí Arango – Guitar Recital
Max Richter – Three Worlds: Music From Wolf Works
Terry Riley – Music With Balls, 1968
mysterious.
Leo Smith, Bardsdale for Solo Guitar
Bardsdale for solo guitar, is “an evocation of the tranquil California landscape around the groves of Fillmore.” The three movements are titled Early Morning: A Deep Rain, Mid-day and Evening: Dusk, Luminous Streaks Of.
Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith (born December 18, 1941) is an American trumpeter and composer, working primarily in the fields of avant-garde jazz and free improvisation. He was one of three finalists for the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for Music for Ten Freedom Summers, released on May 22, 2012 (Wikipedia)