{"id":7327,"date":"2017-07-11T15:32:13","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T22:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=7327"},"modified":"2017-07-11T15:32:13","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T22:32:13","slug":"recent-releases-tuesday-albums-from-xavier-jara-schneiderman-yamaya-duo-and-detlev-bork","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-releases-tuesday-albums-from-xavier-jara-schneiderman-yamaya-duo-and-detlev-bork\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent releases Tuesday: Albums from Xavier Jara, Schneiderman-Yamaya Duo, and Detlev Bork"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the next few weeks, we’re going to break our usual\u00a0bi-weekly Tuesday format of alternating glimpses at new CDs with new sheet music releases, simply because we have so many new CDs coming in we need to catch up a bit! So, here are some of the CDs that have come into the\u00a0Classical Guitar<\/em>\u00a0office recently. We’ll have three more next week.<\/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! Obviously we cannot research and report every outlet or online business where these albums are sold, so check your favorite places that sell CDs and downloads!<\/p>\n

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

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\nGuitar Recital<\/strong><\/em>
\nXavier Jara<\/strong>
\nNaxos<\/p>\n

Winner of the important Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) International Concert Artist Competition in \u00a02016, Xavier Jara\u2014the first American to win since Martha Masters in 2000\u2014has made an intriguing and satisfying debut disc (which is part of his Grand Prize package) that nicely juxtaposes Renaissance and Baroque works by Dowland and Couperin, with a gaggle of modern composers, including Mario Castlenuovo-Tedesco, S\u00e9rgio Assad, and Dusan Bogdanovic. Castlenuovo-Tedesco’s\u00a0Variations \u00e0 travers le si\u00e8cles<\/em> (Variations across the centuries<\/em>) provides a quite natural bridge between the old and the new. There are two quite different modern elegies here by composerrs new to me: The one by Alan Rawsthorne is somewhat dark and contemplative, while Jeremy D. Collins’ starts out\u00a0 pretty and lyrical, builds to a furious crescendo, drops back into another quiet passage which grows into an exultant and then pensive reverie for the departed. It’s altogether a superb piece.<\/p>\n

Jara takes more chances than a lot of the players in Naxos’ Laureate Series on this Recital<\/em> disc, but sounds utterly confident and at ease with his choices, down to his somewhat bold inclusion of Bogdanovic’s Sonata No. 3<\/em>, with its abstract jabs and violent conclusion. It’s certainly easy to understand why Jara has fared so well in the world of competitions.<\/p>\n

A Fancy, P5<\/em>; A Fantasia, P71<\/em>; A Fancy, P73<\/em> (all by Dowland); Les barricades myst\u00e9rieuses<\/em> (Couperin); Variations \u00e0 travers le si\u00e8cles<\/em> (Castelnuovo-Tedesco);\u00a0Elegy<\/em> (Rawsthorne, edited and completed by Bream); Summer Garden, Suite XIX, Dreams<\/em> (S. Assad); Elegy<\/em> (Collins); Caprichos de Goya, XVIII, El Sue\u00f1o de la raz\u00f3n produce monstruos<\/em> (Castelnuovo-Tedesco); Mysterious Habits<\/em>; Sonata No. 3<\/em> (both by Bogdanovic)<\/p>\n

You can stream or buy this album through Amazon<\/a>, or hear it in its entirety on YouTube<\/a>, as well as on Apple Music and Spotify.<\/p>\n

Here is Jara playing Bogdanovic’s <\/em>Sonata No. 3 in 2014 at the Boston GuitarFest, where he won first prize:<\/em>
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