The Segovia Collection, Volume 9: The Romantic Guitar

Andres Segovia (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 4, 1991)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Mca
• ASIN: B000002OGJ
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #78,501 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #37 in Music > Classical > Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Composers > Scriabin, Alexander

Track Listings

1. Lyric Pieces (6), Book 8, Op. 65: no 2, Peasant's Song

2. Lyric Pieces (8), Book 1, Op. 12: no 2, Waltz

3. Songs without words, vol 2, Op. 30: no 3, Andante sostenuto in E major

4. Canzonetta

5. Songs without words, vol 1, Op. 19b: no 6, Andante sostenuto "Venetian

6. Menuetto

7. Largo assai

8. Romanza for Guitar in A minor

9. Grand Sonata for Violin and Guitar in A major, Andantino variato

10. no 2 in F major

11. Preludes (24) for Piano, Op. 28, no 7 in A major

12. Romanza

13. Lyric Pieces (8), Book 2, Op. 38, no 3, Melody

14. Preludio

15. Allegretto

16. Sonata

17. Homenaje pour "Le tombeau de Claude Debussy," for guitar, G. 56

18. Prélude

19. La fille aux cheveux de lin, prelude for piano, L. 117/8

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Greatest Classical Guitarist who ever lived!, September 22, 2000

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R. DePalma "robdep3" (New York, New York United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Segovia Collection, Volume 9: The Romantic Guitar (Audio CD)

Every classical Guitarist today owes a debt of gratitiude to Andres Segovia. He was not only an amazingly unique talent but an innovator as well. When he rediscovered the guitar it was a forgotten instrument that shared little respect from the musical community. He literally invented the technique that all classical guitarists use today. In addition he sought out and compiled thousands of lost pieces for the instrument. He also made many transcriptions of pieces written for other instruments such as the piano and translated them brilliantly into the language of the guitar. Out of the entire Segovia collection, this CD is my personal favorite for the diversity and choice of material. The waltzes are charming. My favorite cuts are Canzonetta and Song Without Words OP 19.no 6, both but Felix Mendelssohn. If you only buy one CD out of this collection it should be this one.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars My Personal Favorite, June 11, 2004

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Jon Jaynes (Easley, SC) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Segovia Collection, Volume 9: The Romantic Guitar (Audio CD)

While Segovia's forte is Spanish music and his mastery of the Bach sonatas and partitas which were transcribed from the violin to the guitar, I keep finding myself listening to this CD on an almost daily basis. As a classical guitarist myself, hearing pieces like Grieg's piano works and Mendlesohns' string quartets played to perfection on his 1947 Herman Hauser II with such strength, clarity and authority makes me realize this man understood more about the music that went onto this one CD than most "musicians" past and present could ever hope to understand in a lifetime. His guitar sings like a human voice and when he plays it truly sounds like a choral ensemble being played through one instrument. Sweet!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An expressive Genius, February 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The Segovia Collection, Volume 9: The Romantic Guitar (Audio CD)

Segovia truly shows his expressive genius on this album. Many of these pieces were written for the piano but arranged for the the guitar by Segovia. These titles express much of what is moving about the romantic period in classical music and Segovia captures this in his masterful way. This is a must have for Segovia fans. If not for some noisy recordings, I would have given this album 5 stars.