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 […]
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Suite Candanga by Alvaro Henrique, Centaur Records, 2013
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
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.” * […]
Toru Takemitsu: Complete Music for Solo Guitar di Franz Halàsz, Grammofon AB BIS, 2000
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 […]
Toru Takemitsu Complete Guitar Works for Solo Guitar by Andrea Dieci, M.A.P., 2004
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 […]
Music From a Parallel World Vol 4. New Music For Electric Guitar by Sergio Sorrentino, Map Classics 2015
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 […]
Soundscapes, The Gothenburg Combo, Northwest Classics 2007
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 on #neuguitars #blog
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 […]
Ero alle Porte Dell’Est. Forse by Oronzo Persano and Francesco Silvestro
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 […]
Forastiere Live by Pino Forastiere, Candyrat Record,2009
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 […]
Guitar Republic by Guitar Republic (Pino Forastiere, review, Sergio Altamura, Stefano Barone) Candyrat Records, 2010
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 […]
THIS CLOSE by Janet Feder, bandcamp, 2015
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 […]
Patrik Kleemola, Through Green Glass, Pilfink records, 2015
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 […]
Patrik Kleemola, Perchitarrasola – Finnish and Italian music for guitar, Pilfink records, 2012
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 […]
Octal Book Two by Elliott Sharp, Clean Feed Records, 2010
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 […]
Octal Book One by Elliott Sharp, Clean Feed Records, 2008
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 […]
La Suave Melodia by Massimo Lonardi, Matteo Mela and Lorenzo Micheli, Stradivarius 2008
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, […]
Dionisio Aguado by Lorenzo Micheli and Matteo Mela, Stradivarius, 2000
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: […]
StrongStrangeStrings by Elena Càsoli, Stradivarius 2001
“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 […]
#Review of Steve Reich Guitar Works by Yasushi Takemura, miru records, 2014 on #neuguitars #blog
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 […]
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