Guitar Espanola [Import]

 | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 29, 2002)
• Number of Discs: 4
• Format: Import
• Label: Import [Generic]
• ASIN: B00006L6RN
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #679,988 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Suite española, for guitar (arr. by N. Yepes): Españoletas

2. Suite española, for guitar (arr. by N. Yepes): Gallarda y Villano

3. Suite española, for guitar (arr. by N. Yepes): Danza de las hachas

4. Suite española, for guitar (arr. by N. Yepes): Rujero y Paradetas

5. Suite española, for guitar (arr. by N. Yepes): Zarabanda al ayre español

See all 23 tracks on this disc

Disc: 2

1. Suite española No. 1, for piano, Op. 47, B. 7: No. 5. Asturias. Leyenda

2. Recuerdos de viaje, pieces (7) for piano, Op. 71, B. 18: No. 6. Rumores de la caleta. Malagueña

3. Piezas características (12), for piano, Op. 92, B. 29: No. 12. Torre bermeja. Serenata

4. Spanish Dances (12), in 4 volumes for piano, Op. 37, H. 142, DLR 1:2: No. 4. Villanesca

5. Alborada for guitar

See all 15 tracks on this disc

Disc: 3

1. Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar & orchestra: 1. Allegro con spirito

2. Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar & orchestra: 2. Adagio

3. Concierto de Aranjuez, for guitar & orchestra: 3. Allegro gentile

4. Concertino for guitar & orchestra in A minor, Op 72: 1. Allegro

5. Concertino for guitar & orchestra in A minor, Op 72: 2. Romanza. Andante

See all 11 tracks on this disc

Disc: 4

1. Fantasía para un gentilhombre, for guitar & orchestra: Villano y ricercar (Adagietto - Andante moderato)

2. Fantasía para un gentilhombre, for guitar & orchestra: Españoleta y fanfare de la caballería de Nápoles (Adagio - Allegretto)

3. Fantasía para un gentilhombre, for guitar & orchestra: Danza de las hachas (Allegro con brio)

4. Fantasía para un gentilhombre, for guitar & orchestra: Canario (Allegro ma non troppo)

5. Concierto: Tres gráficos, for guitar & orchestra: 1. Gráfico de la farruca y cadencias

See all 17 tracks on this disc

Customer Reviews

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars VERY HIGHLY RECOMMENDED, September 20, 2003

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This review is from: Guitar Espanola (Audio CD)

I cannot recommend this retrospective of just a small amount of Yepes's work highly enough.

He was a consummate technician and a knowledgeable interpreter of all musical idioms from the Middle Ages through to the height of the 20th Century avant-garde. His playing was characterized by intelligence, sensibility, clarity, power, majesty, poetry, and a devilish ability to separate and sustain contrapuntal lines.

In this box of 5 CDs you will find the definitive performance of Rodrigo's now famous "Aranjuez" concerto (singlehandedly made famous by Yepes). There are also 2 CDs with rare concertos by Salvador Bacarisse, Antonio Ruiz-Pipo, and Maurice Ohana.

The other 3 CD's contain solo guitar works by Sanz, Mudarra, Narvaez, Soler, Sor, Albeniz, Granados, Tarrega, De Falla, Turina, Bacarisse, Rodrigo, Llobet, Pujol, Moreno Torroba, Montsalvatge, Ohana, and Ruiz-Pipo.

Every guitarist and every lover of the instrument should own this set. If it is not available, also refer to a similar box set with the ASIN number B0000B09Z5 or another B000026ZRL.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars OUT OF STOCK INDIVIDUALLY BUT NOT OUT OF MIND, August 22, 2003

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Duane E. Crawford (Rolette, ND USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guitar Espanola (Audio CD)

I bought this 4 cd set under the title Gitarra Espanola for about fifteen dollars more used than under its correct title Guitarra Espanola. It and the individual four volumes are out of stock. Volume 1 Sanz, Soler and Sor are pretty good. Volume 2 Albeniz, Granados, Tarrega, De Falla, and Turina are more the Spanish or Classical guitar I am used to from the likes of Romero, Williams, and Villa Lobos.
Volume 3 has the first recording of Joaaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjeuz from 1947. My seller said that volume 3 was defective though it was just the recording capability of 1947.
Salvador Bararisse, another Twentieth Century composer for the guitar, was thrilling. Antonio Ruiz-Pipo challenged me. He was born in 1933.
There is a volume 5 with Joaquiln Rodrigo: Fantasia para un Gentilhombre/Concierto Madrigal for 2 Guitars & Orchestra/Marurice Ohana: Concerto Three Designs for Guitar & Orchestra that I will try to get used or new as it is also out of stock. These are way high in the Amazon Sales Rankings, but for a retrospecitive of the 10-string guitarist who died in 1997, this will do.