{"id":16790,"date":"2022-04-22T10:15:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:15:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=16790"},"modified":"2022-04-22T10:15:34","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T17:15:34","slug":"album-review-carlos-barbosa-lima-and-johannes-tonio-kreusch-shine-on-manisero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/album-review-carlos-barbosa-lima-and-johannes-tonio-kreusch-shine-on-manisero\/","title":{"rendered":"Album Review: Carlos Barbosa-Lima and Johannes Tonio Kreusch Shine on \u2018Manisero\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This article originally appeared in the\u00a0May\/June 2022\u00a0issue\u00a0of\u00a0Acoustic Guitar<\/a><\/em>\u00a0|<\/strong> By Blair Jackson<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The late New York\u2013based Brazilian Carlos Barbosa-Lima, who died at age 77 this past February, was rightly considered one of the greatest classical guitarists and arrangers of the modern era, a virtuoso of the highest order, and so<\/em> versatile. He tackled everything from Handel to Cole Porter to The Beatles, and regularly played jazz at a high level\u2014but he was especially known for the unparalleled depth and sensitivity he brought to Latin and South American repertoire.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This latest release, Manisero<\/a><\/em>, in a career spanning some 70 albums finds him paired with another excellent and versatile guitarist\u2014his occasional duo partner, German Johannes Tonio Kreusch\u2014on a collection of short pieces from such well-known South American and Latin composers as Brazilians Heitor Villa-Lobos, Luiz Bonf\u00e1, Ant\u00f4nio Carlos Jobim, and Pixinguinha; Argentinian Alberto Ginastera; and Mexicans Agustin Lara and Manuel Ponce. I was not familiar with Cuban composer\/pianist Mois\u00e9s Simons, whose catchy and spry \u201cEl Manisero\u201d kicks off the proceedings with tremendous flair. On that track, and three others, the guitarists are joined by Kreusch\u2019s piano-playing brother Cornelius, and the blend of the three of them is truly sublime. Bonf\u00e1\u2019s \u201cManh\u00e3 de Carnaval,\u201d \u201cCielito Lindo\u201d by Mexican composer Quirino Mendoza y Cortes, and Ponce\u2019s \u201cEstrellita\u201d are the most famous numbers here, but they are all<\/em> worthy selections, played with great feeling, fluidity, and precision; Barbosa-Lima\u2019s Richard Prenkert guitar and Kreusch\u2019s Fritz Ober meshing perfectly throughout. It shows a guitarist at the top of his game until the very end.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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