{"id":7492,"date":"2017-08-01T12:43:12","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T19:43:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=7492"},"modified":"2017-08-15T14:31:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-15T21:31:46","slug":"recent-releases-tuesday-albums-from-sharon-isbin-isabel-leonard-boyd-meets-girl-and-silvana-saldana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-releases-tuesday-albums-from-sharon-isbin-isabel-leonard-boyd-meets-girl-and-silvana-saldana\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Releases Tuesday: Albums from Sharon Isbin & Isabel Leonard, Boyd Meets Girl, and Silvana Salda\u00f1a"},"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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\nAlma Espa\u00f1ola<\/strong><\/em>
\nSharon Isbin (guitar) and Isabel Leonard (voice)<\/strong>
\nBridge Records<\/p>\n

This enchanting album is, according to Sharon Isbin<\/a>, the first major album devoted to Spanish “art song” since guitarist Narciso Yepes and Castilian mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza put out their Canciones Populares Espa\u00f1olas<\/em><\/a> album on Deutsches Grammophon 40 years ago. That LP consisted of Federico Garcia Lorca’s 13\u00a0Canciones espa\u00f1ola antiguas<\/em> and Manuel de Falla’s\u00a0Siete canciones populares\u00a0espa\u00f1olas. <\/em>Those two suites form the backbone of this release by Isbin and Argentinean mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard<\/a>\u2014with new arrangements by Isbin on the Garcia Lorca set, and also quite a bit more: a splendid version of Rodrigo’s Aranjuez ma pens\u00e9e<\/em> (adapted by the composer from the gorgeous second movement of his Concierto de Aranjuez<\/em>, with touching and evocative lyrics by Rodrigo’s wife, Victoria Kamhi); Agust\u00edn Lara’s lovely Granada;<\/em>\u00a0a pair of Isbin adaptations of works by Spanish composer Xavier Montsalvatge, and two splendid solo showcases for Isbin: Granados’ Danza\u00a0espa\u00f1ola No. 5 <\/em>and T\u00e1rrega’s Capricho\u00a0\u00e1rabe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The blend of Isbin’s guitar and Leonard’s voice is both powerful and exquisite, and listeners who take the time to really delve into the lyrics of the songs\u2014which range from impressionistic scenes and small life moments to dramatic stories about love and death (by bull!)\u2014will be richly rewarded. (The booklet offers both the Spanish lyrics and English translations.) The recording, produced by David Frost and recorded by Tim Martyn and Bryan Losch, is exemplary.<\/p>\n

I interviewed Isbin about the album recently; that story will appear in the Winter 2017 issue of Classical Guitar<\/em>, out in November.<\/p>\n

From Canciones espa\u00f1ola antiguas<\/em>: El Cafe Chinitas<\/em>, Las morillas de Ja\u00e8n<\/em>, Anda jaleo<\/em> (Garc\u00eda Lorca; arr. Isbin); Danza\u00a0espa\u00f1ola No. 5, Andaluza<\/em> (Granados, trans. Llobet); from Canciones espa\u00f1ola antiguas<\/em>: Romance de Don Boyso<\/em>, Zorongo<\/em>, Nana de Sevilla<\/em>, La Tarara<\/em>, Los mozos de Monle\u00f3n<\/em>, Sevillanas del siglo XVIII<\/em> (Garc\u00eda Lorca; arr. Isbin); Aranjuez ma pens\u00e9e<\/em> (Rodrigo); Granada<\/em> (Lara, arr. Isbin); Capricho\u00a0\u00e1rabe (T\u00e1rrega); Siete canciones populares<\/em>\u00a0espa\u00f1olas<\/em> (Falla; trans. Llobet\/rev. Pujol); from Cinco canciones negras<\/em>: Canto negro<\/em>, Canci\u00f3n de cuna para dormir a un negrito\u00a0<\/em>(Montsalvatge, arr. Isbin)<\/p>\n

The album can be purchased through Amazon<\/a>\u00a0and iTunes, and streamed through Apple Music and Spotify.<\/p>\n

Below, the duo perform Manuel De Falla’s “Polo” (from<\/em> Siete canciones populares\u00a0espa\u00f1olas) a couple of years ago<\/em>. Alas, it does not capture the wonderful sonics of the album, which you can hear better on the promo teaser beneath this one, edited around the cover photo shoot for<\/em> Alma\u00a0 Espa\u00f1ola:<\/em>
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