{"id":7003,"date":"2017-05-30T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T15:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=7003"},"modified":"2017-05-26T14:58:32","modified_gmt":"2017-05-26T21:58:32","slug":"recent-releases-tuesday-new-albums-by-michal-svoboda-and-izhar-elias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-releases-tuesday-new-albums-by-michal-svoboda-and-izhar-elias\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Releases Tuesday: New Albums by Michal Svoboda and Izhar Elias"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s 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

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\nLa B\u00fasqueda<\/strong><\/em>
\nMichal Svoboda<\/strong>
\nArcoDiva<\/p>\n

On this impressive and satisfying disc (the title translates as “The Quest”), Czech guitarist Michal Svoboda<\/a>\u00a0splits the 15-track program between just two composers: Agust\u00edn Barrios and Miguel Llobet, who were contemporaries who lived and (mostly) worked thousands of miles apart (in South America and Spain respectively), yet definitely seemed to share similar late-Romantic leanings and affection for the folk music of each’s homeland. They make for a good match on this album, which contains fine versions of many popular numbers, such as Barrios’ Danza paraguaya No 1<\/em>, Choro da saudade,<\/em> and Un Sue\u00f1o<\/em>\u00a0en la Floresta,\u00a0<\/em>and Llobet’s Romanza<\/em> and six of the 15 \u00a0Canciones populares Catalanas,<\/em> including the sublime\u00a0El noi de la mare <\/em>and\u00a0Can\u00e7\u00f3 del lladre. <\/em>Llobet’s variations on \u00a0a theme by Sor, which closes the disc, feels slightly out of place stylistically with most of what precedes it, but it does give Svoboda the opportunity to to display his considerable skills as a virtuosic guitarist.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Barrios: Oraci\u00f3n Para Todos<\/em>; Mazurka Apasionada<\/em>; Danza paraguaya No. 1<\/em>; Choro da saudade<\/em>; Las Abejas<\/em>; Medall\u00f3n Antiguo<\/em>; Un Sue\u00f1o en la Floresta<\/em>. Llobet: Romanza<\/em>; Canciones populares Catalanas\u2014la nit de Nadal, Can\u00e7\u00f3 del lladre, El Nestre, El noi de la mare, El testament d’Amelia, La filadora<\/em>; Variaciones sobre un tema de Sor, Op. 15<\/em><\/p>\n

The album can be purchased through the Czech label ArcoDiva<\/a> or Arkiv Music<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s a promotional teaser that gives you a taste of what the CD is like:<\/em><\/p>\n