Poulenc: Sarabande for solo guitar, Op. 179

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Poulenc - The Complete Chamber Music

Poulenc:

Sextet for piano and wind quintet, Op. 100

Violin Sonata, FP 119

Sonata for Two Clarinets, Op. 7

Sonata for Horn, Trumpet & Trombone, Op. 33

Cello Sonata, Op. 143

Clarinet Sonata, Op. 184

Sarabande for solo guitar, Op. 179

Villanelle for piccolo (pipe) and piano

Elégie for horn and piano, Op. 168

In memory of Dennis Brain

Trio for piano, oboe and bassoon

Sonata for Clarinet and Bassoon, Op. 32

Flute Sonata, Op. 164

The Nash Ensemble

'Entrancing. It's hard to select the choicest treasures from this jewel box of Poulenc's most witty and vivacious, hauntingly melodic and touchingly heartfelt music, especially when it is played with such effervescence and devotion as here. The two masterpieces are the Sextet for Piano and Winds (1932) and the delectable "Mozartian" Trio for Piano, Oboe and Bassoon, played with dashing elan and soulful lyricism by the pianist Ian Brown and the Nash's brilliant wind principals. Richard Watkins's long-breathed account of the moving Elégie in memoriam Dennis Brain (1957) and Paul Watkins's noble-toned playing of the Cello Sonata (1940/48) are exceptional. But there is rapture, elation, zany high spirits in all of this music, dazzlingly played by the Nash Ensemble. Buy, buy, buy!' (The Sunday Times)

“Invidious as it may seem to pick out just one of these excellent artists, special mention must be made of Ian Brown, who plays in nine of the 13 works included and confirms his standing as one of the most admired and musicianly chamber pianists of our day. He knows, for example, how to control Poulenc's boisterous piano writing in the Sextet without sacrificing the sparkle, and as a result the work coheres better than ever before. Like the Trio (whose opening reveals Stravinskian influence), it's a mixture of the composer's madcap gamin mood and his predominantly melancholy bittersweet lyricism.
The latter characteristic is most in evidence in his most enduring chamber works: the solo wind sonatas with piano, all three of which were in the nature of tombeaux , the Flute Sonata for the American patron Mrs Sprague Coolidge, that for clarinet for Honegger, and that for oboe for Prokofiev. All are given idiomatic, sensitive and satisfying performances by the Nash artists.
The Elégie for Dennis Brain was a not altogether convincing experiment in dodecaphony: Poulenc had earlier dabbled in atonality and polytonality in the little sonatas (really sonatinas) for, respectively, two clarinets and for clarinet and bassoon. There's a touching reading of the little Sarabande for guitar. A hint of the guitar's tuning at the start of the second move- ment is almost the only Spanish reference in the Violin Sonata, which was composed in memoriam the poet Lorca, whose loss is bitterly suggested in the angry finale. In this work Poulenc allotted to the piano (his own instrument) rather more than equal status in the duo – a situation rather paralleled in the lighthearted Cello Sonata, over which the composer dallied longer than any other of his works – but balance in both is finely judged by the performers and the recording team.
The whole issue wins enthusiastic recommendation: it bids fair to become the undisputed yardstick for the future.” Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010

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Hommage a Debussy

Falla:	Homenaje a Debussy
Poulenc:	Sarabande for solo guitar, Op. 179
Rodrigo:	Invocación y danza
Sauguet:	Soliloque, in ricordo di Manuel de Falla
Tansman:	Cavatina
Turina:	Sonata for Guitar, Op. 61
Villa-Lobos:	Etude for Guitar, W 235 No. 7 in E major Etude for Guitar, W 235 No. 11 in E minor

Izhar Elias (guitar)

A fascinating programme concept, evoking the unique athmosphere of Paris at the beginning of the 20-th century, a melting pot of styles, cultures and trends.

Netherlands Music Prize winner Izhar Elias draws fascinating sounds and colours from his guitar.

Already released by Izhar Elias: Rossini/Giuliani: Semiramide, an arrangement of the opera for guitar solo.

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Guitar Recital: Rafael Aguirre Miñarro

Clerch:	Sentimiento Yemaya Estudio de escalas
Ibert:	Ariette For Solo Guitar Française, for solo guitar
Ohana:	Tiento
Poulenc:	Sarabande for solo guitar, Op. 179
Rautavaara:	Partita, Op. 34
Sor:	Fantaisie
Tárrega:	Variations on Carnival of Venice
Villa-Lobos:	Etude for Guitar, W 235 No. 7 in E major Etude for Guitar, W 235 No. 12 in A minor

Rafael Aguirre Miñarro (guitar)

Rafael Aguirre Miñarro, First Prize Winner in the 2007 International Francisco Tárrega Guitar Competition, has studied with Teresa García de Candido, Manuel Jesús Pérez Vela, Miguel Tojar and Javier Chamizo, and since 2004 with Joaquín Clerch.

Rafael Aguirre won the 2007 Certamen Tarrega Competition.

The scope of the pieces he plays in this recital is truly cosmopolitan, covering music from the early nineteenth century up to the present time, from the simplicity of Poulenc’s Sarabande to the exuberant virtuosity of Villa-Lobos and Tárrega.

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Narciso Yepes - Recuerdos

Portrait of the Artist

Albéniz:	Asturias (from Suite espanola, Op. 47) Transc. Andrés Segovia Malagueña, Op. 165, No. 3
anon.:	Romance d'Amour (Jeux Interdits) (arr. Narciso Yepes)
Bach, J S:	Lute Suite No. 2 in C minor, BWV997 Preludio & Fuga
Castelnuovo-Tedesco:	Guitar Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 99 London Symphony Orchestra, García Navarro
Giuliani:	Guitar Concerto No. 1 in A major, Op. 30 English Chamber Orchestra, García Navarro
Granados:	Danza española, Op. 37 No. 5 'Andaluza'
Mudarra:	Fantasìa X (que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico)
Poulenc:	Sarabande for solo guitar, Op. 179
Rodrigo:	Concierto de Aranjuez
Ruiz-Pipó:	Cancion y Danza No. 1 rev. Narciso Yepes
Sainz de la Maza, R:	Petenera para guitarra Andaluza
Scarlatti, D:	Keyboard Sonata K32 in D minor Keyboard Sonata K332 in B flat major
Sor:	Fantaisie Villageoise, Op. 52
Tárrega:	Recuerdos de la Alhambra Adelita
Telemann:	Partita Polonaise in A major for two guitars with Godelieve Monden (guitar)
Torroba:	Madroños
Villa-Lobos:	Etude for Guitar, W 235 No. 12 in A minor Prelude No. 1 in E minor

Narciso Yepes (guitar)

The accompanying booklet is in the best Portrait of the Artist style with a wide selection of photos, some of them from the Yepes family collection.

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Guitar Meditations

Barrios Mangoré:	La catedral Una limosna por el amor de Dios Julia florida
Brouwer, L:	Dos temas populares cubanos (Two Cuban Folksongs)
Cardoso, J:	Milonga
Lauro:	Registro (Preludio) from Suite venezolana
Lovelady:	Incantation No. 7 'Donegal' Incantation No. 6 Incantation No. 3 'Hommage to Stanley Myers'
Myers:	Cavatina (from The Deerhunter)
Poulenc:	Sarabande for solo guitar, Op. 179
Sainz de la Maza, E:	Platero y yo
Tárrega:	Capricho árabe Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Villa-Lobos:	Etude for Guitar, W 235 No. 1 in E minor Etude for Guitar, W 235 No. 8 in C sharp minor
Yoshimatsu:	Wind color Vector Two Little Pieces

Craig Ogden (guitar)

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Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 4

Poulenc:

Le Bal masqué

Le Bestiaire ou Cortege d'Orphee

Quatre Poems de Max Jacob

Rapsodie négre

Cocardes

Elégie for horn and piano, Op. 168

Sarabande for solo guitar, Op. 179

Marc Bauer (cornet), Marie Gondeau (bassoon), Francoise Groben (cello), Serge Krichewski (oboe), Franck Leguerinel (baritone), Jean-Marc Phillips (violin), Francoise Rivalland (percussion), Ronald van Spaendonck (clarinet), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Laurent Lefevre (bassoon), Celine Nessi (flute), Sabine Toutain (viola), Thibault Vieux (violin), Marc Bauer (trumpet), Philippe Bernold (flute), Olivier Doise (oboe), Andre Moisan (Clarinet), Pascal Delage (percussion), Jean Delescluse (tenor), Alexandre Tharaud (percussion), Guy Touvron (trumpet), Herve Joulain (horn), Pierre Laniau (guitar)

“Many full-priced editions of this music offer far less value, both artistically and with respect to presentation. You simply can't go wrong with any of the discs in this series, and at these prices you can surely afford to collect them all.” Classics Today

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Poulenc: Sarabande for solo guitar, Op. 179

Poulenc - The Complete Chamber Music

Hommage a Debussy

Guitar Recital: Rafael Aguirre Miñarro

Narciso Yepes - Recuerdos

Portrait of the Artist

Guitar Meditations

Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music, Vol. 4

Poulenc: Oeuvres complètes (Complete works)

édition du 50e anniversaire 1963-2013