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Catalogue number - MGQ CD-0041
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Dances of Spain and Argentina
Alberto Ginastera
Danza del viejo boyero
Danza de la moza donosa
Danza del gaucho matrero (3:31 -- download)
Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata, BWV 912 (excerpt, 3:44 -- download)
Jeff Lambert
Minnesota Winter (4:06)
Chicago Summer
Enrique Granados
Prelude
Añoranza
Ecos de la Parranda
Vascongada (excerpt, 1:31 -- download)
Marcha Oriental
Zambra (excerpt, 3:03 -- download)
Zapateado
Peter Maxwell Davies
Farewell to Stromness
Review:
Danza Argentinas (Ginastera) - “work wonderfully for quartet”;
Toccata, BWV 921 (Bach) - “a marvelous transcription…a very clever arrangement”;
Six Pieces on Spanish Folksongs (Ginastera) – “tests the limits of the players-indeed of the guitar at times-but works very well in the end”;
Farewell to Stromness (Maxwell Davies) – “played beautifully”;
Two Pieces (Lambert) – “Lambert’s pieces, especially the exquisite Minnesota Winter, are very welcome”
Albert Kunze, Soundboard Magazine
GSP 1026CD GSP RecordingsPictures at an Exhibition
Astor Piazolla
Windy (3:51 -- download)
Tango para una Ciudad, Part 1
Tango para una Ciudad, Part 2
Isaac Albeniz
Evocacion
El Puerto
El Albaicin
Modest Mossorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks, 1:15 -- download)
Review: "Honestly, this is the best arrangement of these 16 movements (Pictures at an Exhibition) I have heard...While staying true to the original sense of the pieces, the Quartet brings fresh colors and lyricism...The works by Piazzolla are rendered with great sensitivity to his genius of taking traditional elements and melding them with the modern." www.minor7th.com
Catalogue#: TROY 339, Albany Records Over Land and Sea
Sergio Assad
Uarekena
Maria Kalaniemi
Two Finnish Pieces (Hermannin Riili, 3:07 -- download)
Igor Stravinski
Five Easy Pieces
Federico Moreno Torroba
Estampas
David Crittenden
A Scottish Fantasy
Stephen Funk Pearson
Elassomorph
Review: "With this CD, the MGQ demonstrates that it is one of the major guitar ensembles in the world...The playing on this CD is exemplary: by turns exuberant or delicate, the group always makes a strong statement."
James Reid, Soundboard Magazine
New Works for Guitar Quartet
David Kechley
Voices from the Garden
Leo Brouwer
Cuban Landscape with Rumba
Leslie Bassett
Narratives
Naomi Sekiya
Tobila
Janika Vandervelde
Genesis V
Elanor Hovda
Armonia
Review: A winning collection of new classical pieces commissioned by this superb nylon-string ensemble. Besides sounding great in their own right, the music by the six composers represented here shares common traits (virile rhythms, hyperactive antiphonal scoring and an ability to be tuneful without getting dippy) that bode well for the future of the increasingly popular four-guitar medium. – Guitar Player Magazine
Bonus Live Music Samples
O. Nicholas Raths
White Out (2:40 -- download)
Henry Purcell
Sonata #6
