Review of Henze Complete Music for Solo Guitar by Andrea Dieci, Brilliant Classic, 2016 “Now, Hans Werner Henze is an altogether different cup of tea….He is also very fecund…He’s that sort of person. Having the […]

Review of Henze Complete Music for Solo Guitar by Andrea Dieci, Brilliant Classic, 2016 “Now, Hans Werner Henze is an altogether different cup of tea….He is also very fecund…He’s that sort of person. Having the […]
Review of Suite Candanga by Alvaro Henrique, Centaur Records, 2013 Perhaps this review should be written by an architect, surely fond of music, maybe a follower of the great Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer, who worked […]
Review of Dieci minuti all’alba omaggio a Giorgio Gaslini, by Andrea Monarda, Stradivarius, 2016 “After a long conversation with Berio about composition, he said that composition itself could be condensed into one word: Psychology.” * […]
Review of Toru Takemitsu: Complete Music for Solo Guitar di Franz Halàsz, Grammofon AB BIS, 2000 “During the 1970s, Takemitsu began composing for the guitar. Guitar music occupies an important place within his oeuvre. In […]
Review of Toru Takemitsu Complete Guitar Works for Solo Guitar by Andrea Dieci, M.A.P., 2004 “One of Takemitsu’s great interpreters, Aki Takanashi, the wife of Akiyama, his friend and experiment companion, received his confession that […]
Review of Music From a Parallel World Vol 4. New Music For Electric Guitar by Sergio Sorrentino, Map Classics 2015 The Electric guitar… popular instrument par excellence, synonymous with rebellion and youthful rock energy, since […]
Review of Soundscapes, The Gothenburg Combo, Northwest Classics 2007 Very interesting record this Soundscapes by The Gothenburg Combo, duo formed by David Hansson and Thomas Hansy. This album released in 2007 has surprised me right […]
Review of Minimalist Guitar Music by Massimo Menotti, Orange Mountain Music, 2015 Massimo Menotti is a guitarist devoted in recent years in particular to modern and contemporary repertoire, dividing his time between classical and electric […]
Review of Ero alle Porte Dell’Est. Forse by Oronzo Persano and Francesco Silvestro This CD, released in 2013 for the record company Lira Classica, won the prize for the best title of 2013. Far away […]
A personal suggestion, when you will open this record. Inside you will find a cd and a dvd, please listen to the cd before.The audio and video recordings are perfect and the acoustic guitar of […]
I have been looking for it a long time on the world maps, this Italian Repubblica delle Chitarre (Guitars Republic). At the end I have found her on a map compiled by Candyrat Records, closer […]
Review of THIS CLOSE by Janet Feder, bandcamp, 2015 https://janetfeder.bandcamp.com/ THIS CLOSE is the fifth album released by the American guitarist Janet Feder, a musician who has developed a very personal musical language, drawing inspiration from […]
Review of Patrik Kleemola, Through Green Glass, Pilfink records, 2015 An entire CD dedicated to the music for guitar by Finnish composers. This is not something you can get everyday. It ‘s true that we […]
Review of Patrik Kleemola, Perchitarrasola – Finnish and Italian music for guitar, Pilfink records, 2012 Interesting mix this CD played by the talented Patrik Kleemola that combines an ideal musical twinning between Italian and Finnish […]
Elliott Sharp does it seriously when, in the notes on this cd defines this music as ‘purely digital’ which means simply produced by his fingers. Any plectrum, any help from the electronics, just a touch of […]
Here we go with Elliott Sharp, veteran “laurea honoris causa” of the 80’s downtown scene. Sharp has intelligently and creatively distributed his own talent among compositions of contemporary music for strings’ quartets, blues hard-core quintets, electronics, orchestral […]
Sometimes, around a day, we feel the need,( as was singing Franco Battiato some years ago) to try to live our lifes running with a different speed. A less excited rithm, a more relaxed time, […]
Daughter of the god of war and the goddess of love, Harmony has inspired three of the most penetrating fragments of Heraclitus. The third fragment in particular, dear architects and musicians of all time, mentions: […]
“I play an instrument which today is enjoying one of the happiest periods in its long history. Its structure and sound have evolved and kept pace with changes in attitudes to music, culmination in a […]
This record is the first “opera omnia” for electric guitar by the american composer Steve Reich ever made. The author of this stylistic synthesis is the Japanise guitarist Yasushi Takemura, who played three scores: “Music […]