{"id":6044,"date":"2017-02-08T09:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2017-02-08T09:21:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T17:21:03","slug":"recent-releases-tuesday-cds-from-the-canadian-guitar-quartet-mats-bergstrom-john-sargent-and-dimitris-kotronakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-releases-tuesday-cds-from-the-canadian-guitar-quartet-mats-bergstrom-john-sargent-and-dimitris-kotronakis\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Releases Tuesday: CDs from the Canadian Guitar Quartet, Mats Bergstr\u00f6m, John Sargent, and Dimitris Kotronakis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s our bi-weekly listing of some of the CDs that have come into the\u00a0Classical Guitar<\/em>\u00a0office 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 here. You can listen to some of these on various of streaming services, but we always encourage you to support the artists by actually\u00a0buying<\/em>\u00a0anything you like!<\/p>\n

To see our previous listings, scroll to the bottom of the page.<\/p>\n

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

\"CGQ\"
\nMappa Mundi<\/strong><\/em>
\nCanadian Guitar Quartet<\/strong>
\nATMA Classique<\/p>\n

The latest from this venerable quartet\u2014Julien Bisaillon, Renaud C\u00f4t\u00e9-Gigu\u00e8re, Bruno Roussel, and Louis Tr\u00e9panier\u2014is filled with life and adventure. After starting with a stately, crowd-pleasing historical piece\u2014a cello concerto by Vivaldi (arranged by CGQ member Roussel)\u2014the rest of the CD is devoted to four contemporary works that are considerably less conservative and more modern, with more dissonance, leaping and abrupt tempo and rhythm shifts, but still at least on the edge of melodicism much of the time. Patrick Roux’s Concierto Tradicionuevo<\/em>\u00a0offers an interesting mutation of familiar Argentinean musical elements, while Hans Br\u00fcderl’s Octopus<\/em> (listen below) goes from rhythmically manic to elegiac, and also includes some lovely, lilting passages; it’s quite a piece. The invigorating title work, which has a Bernard Hermannesque opening (think\u00a0Psycho<\/em>) and closing\u2014and more sonorous movements in between\u2014also features guest cellist Rachel Mercer, to nice effect.<\/p>\n

Concerto for Two Cellos in G Minor, RV\u00a0<\/em>531 (Vivaldi);\u00a0Fille de cuivre<\/em>\u00a0(C\u00f4t\u00e9-Gigu\u00e8re);\u00a0Concierto Tradicionuevo<\/em>\u00a0(Roux);\u00a0Octopus<\/em>\u00a0(Br\u00fcderl);\u00a0Mappa Mundi<\/em>\u00a0(Donkin)Sample and buy through ATMA Classique<\/a> or Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This video of Hans\u00a0Br\u00fcderl’s <\/em>Octopus (the only piece from the album we could find on YouTube) is a somewhat distant single-camera video, but it does capture the brilliance of the piece and the Quartet’s playing.<\/em>
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