Breathe: The Relaxing Guitar

Peter Maxwell Davies (Composer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Sting [1] (Composer), Joaquin Rodrigo (Composer), Ottorino Respighi (Composer), Leo Brouwer (Composer), Francisco Tarrega (Composer), Pat Metheny (Composer), Stanley Myers (Composer), Erich Kunzel (Conductor), Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (Performer), Naples Philharmonic (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
• Orchestra: Naples Philharmonic
• Conductor: Erich Kunzel
• Composer: Peter Maxwell Davies, Johann Sebastian Bach, Sting [1], Joaquin Rodrigo, Ottorino Respighi, et al.
• Audio CD (February 22, 2005)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Telarc
• ASIN: B0007D4MJK
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #29,746 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #56 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Short Forms > Character Pieces
  • #62 in Music > Classical > Instruments > Strings > Guitar
  • #97 in Music > Classical > Historical Periods > Classical (c.1770-1830) > Vocal & Song > Cantatas

Track Listings

1. Farewell to Stromness

2. Prelude No. 1 in C from The Well-Tempered Clavier

3. Fragile

4. Adagio from Concierto de Aranjuez

5. Siciliana from Ancient Airs and Dances

6. Cuban Landscape with Rain

7. Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme

8. Capricho Arabe

9. Prelude from Suite No. 1 for Unaccompanied Violoncello

10. Sarabande from Suite No. 1 for Unaccompanied Violincello

11. Letter from Home

12. Cavatina from The Deer Hunter

Editorial Reviews

Slow down and take a deep breath, and enjoy the first in a series of wonderful relaxing recordings. Just the thing to provide a welcome interlude of quiet in an otherwise hectic world. Breathe: the Relaxing Guitar is a collection of beautiful works played by several of today’s most gifted and acclaimed classical guitarists including David Russell, Angel Romero and the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Relaxing guitar, May 7, 2007

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An elderly guitarist. "RDA" (Redmond, Washington United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Breathe: The Relaxing Guitar (Audio CD)

I bought this CD especially for "Farewell to Stromness," a piece written by knighted Peter Maxwell Davies, transcribed for guitar by Timothy Walker, and performed by David Russell. The piece is of a Scottish folktune, and written as part of a successful grass-roots resistence to the potential destruction of the picturesque town of Stromness in the Orkney islands in Scotland. The resistence movement was titled "The Yellow Cake Review"--the yellow cake was a reference to a uranium open-pit mining that was planned next to the town. The rest of the CD is a wonderful collection of 20 pieces played by Russell, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Pepe (?or Angel)Romero, and others, covering Bach. Sting (!) and others, and ending with Stanley Myers "Cavatina," the now well-known background music for the "Deerhunter."

4 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not Relaxing, September 15, 2005

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K. Huber - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Breathe: The Relaxing Guitar (Audio CD)

I didn't like the cd. It was not relaxing at all!!