{"id":5571,"date":"2016-11-29T15:20:56","date_gmt":"2016-11-29T23:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=5571"},"modified":"2016-11-30T10:10:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-30T18:10:25","slug":"recent-releases-tuesday-cds-by-chroma-duo-thibaut-garcia-marcelo-de-la-puebla-yiannis-giagourtas-and-carsten-pedersen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-releases-tuesday-cds-by-chroma-duo-thibaut-garcia-marcelo-de-la-puebla-yiannis-giagourtas-and-carsten-pedersen\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Releases Tuesday: CDs by ChromaDuo, Thibaut Garcia, Marcelo de la Puebla, Yiannis Giagourtas, and Carsten Pedersen"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s our bi-weekly listing of some of the CDs that have come into the Classical Guitar<\/em> office recently.<\/p>\n

If you have a CD you\u2019d like to submit to us, here\u2019s our address:<\/p>\n

Classical Guitar
\n501 Canal Blvd. suite J
\nRichmond, CA 94804-3505<\/p>\n

Some of these will be reviewed in the magazine, some not. But we want to at least mention them all. You can listen to a lot of these on various of streaming services, but we always encourage you to support the artists by actually buying<\/em> anything you like!<\/p>\n

\u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n

To see our previous listings:<\/p>\n

October 4:<\/a> Jacob Cordover,\u00a0Oleg Timofeyev and John Schneiderman,\u00a0Arka\u00eftz Chambonnet, Matthew Fish, Gidi Ifergan<\/p>\n

October 18:<\/a> Norbert Kraft and Jeffrey McFadden, Steve Cowan, Katrin Endrikat, Jason Vieaux and Julien Labro, Yenne Lee, Emanuele Segre<\/p>\n

November 1:<\/a> Virginia Luque (and Bojidara Kouzmanova) Jon Gjylaci, Fabiano Borges, Alfonso Baschiera, Miscelanea Guitar Quartet, J.P. McShane<\/p>\n

November 15<\/a>: Antigoni Goni, Adam Levin, Rado\u015d Malid\u017ean, Black Cedar, Lou Marinoff, Antonio Malinconico<\/p>\n

\"homenaje-a-gustavo-becerra\"
\nHomenaje a Gustavo Becerra
\n<\/a><\/em><\/strong>Marcelo de la Puebla
\n<\/strong>(Sonografic)<\/p>\n

This adventurous disc has been out a while but definitely deserves a mention. Gustavo Becerra Schmidt (1925\u20132010) was a leading Chilean composer, though he spent much of life and career in exile in Germany (following the early ’70s coup in Chile that toppled Salvador Allende). This is unapologetically modern music, all of it written after 1990 except for the 2nd Sonata for Solo Guitar<\/em>, which dates back to 1956 and is the most conventional piece on the disc. The other multi-part pieces include a spellbinding, at times abstract guitar-and-percussion ensemble number, one for soprano and guitar, and one for piano and guitar. There\u2019s nothing ordinary about any of this! Marcelo de la Puebla<\/a>\u2019s playing is stimulating and full of energy and intrigue.<\/p>\n

Concierto para Guitarra y Grupo de Percusi<\/em>\u00f3n<\/em>; Cuarta Sonata para Guitarra<\/em>; Tres Canciones<\/em>; Segunda Sonata Para Guitarra<\/em>; Divertimento para Guitarra y Piano<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/em>The entire Homenaje a Gustavo Becerra<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>album\u00a0can be heard, in pieces, on YouTube<\/a>. It is also available on AppleMusic and Spotify.<\/p>\n

\"ravel\"
\nRavel, Debussy: Music for Two Guitars
\n<\/em><\/strong>ChromaDuo
\n<\/strong>(Naxos)<\/p>\n

Aside from the opening number, which was arranged by Stephen Goss, the other pieces on this wonderful CD of French impressionist works by Maurice Ravel (1875\u20131937) and Claude Debussy (1962\u20131918) were arranged for two guitars by Tracy Anne Smith and Rob MacDonald, aka Canada\u2019s ChromaDuo<\/a>. As Graham Wade puts it in his notes for the CD, the composers\u2019 works \u201care sensuous and immediate, using vivid titles and an inventive vocabulary to create a world of imagination and spontaneity.\u201d \u00a0A revelation, and a superior achievement all the way around.<\/p>\n

Alborada del gracioso<\/em> (Ravel); Children\u2019s Corner<\/em> (Debussy); Clair de lune<\/em> (Debussy); Valses nobles et sentimentales<\/em> (Ravel); La plus que lente<\/em> (Debussy); Deux arabesques<\/em> (Debussy)<\/p>\n

The CD can be purchased through Amazon<\/a>, sampled and bought through iTunes, or listened to and bought through Naxos<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Below is a fun\/cool conceptual video (sans actual depiction of the duo or a guitar) of ChromaDuo’s version of the first movement of Ravel’s <\/em>Valses nobles et sentimentales, titled\u00a0\u201cMod\u00e9r\u00e9 tr\u00e8s franc,\u201d written for solo piano in 1911.<\/em>
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