{"id":7564,"date":"2017-08-08T16:14:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T23:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=7564"},"modified":"2017-08-08T16:14:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T23:14:42","slug":"recent-releases-tuesday-albums-from-brasil-guitar-duo-maria-camitz-leif-hesselberg-and-duo-bohemico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-releases-tuesday-albums-from-brasil-guitar-duo-maria-camitz-leif-hesselberg-and-duo-bohemico\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Releases Tuesday: Albums from Brasil Guitar Duo, Maria Camitz & Leif Hesselberg, and Duo Bohemico"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the next few weeks, we\u2019re breaking 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\u2019ll 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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\nGhosting<\/strong><\/em>
\nBrasil Guitar Duo<\/strong>
\nCAG (Concert Artists Guild)<\/p>\n

This superb CD opens with a pair of wonderful Baroque keyboard pieces by Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683\u20131764), arranged for two guitars by BGD member Jo\u00e3o Luiz. The duo’s timing is absolutely impeccable; everything is as clean and confidently rendered as can be. From there, the rest of the album is by modern, living composers (with the exception of Heitor Villa-Lobos, whose rather dark “Prelude” for Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4.<\/em> appears). Gerard Drozd, who has written for the duo in the past, contributes a new piece for them, the seven-part Suite Op. 142<\/em>, which \u00a0is, the composer says, “a kind of music that can describe different moods, places, human characters, etc. There is no need to describe each movement separately. I leave it to listeners of the CD \u00a0and believe in their inner or innate sensitivity and imagination.” Suffice it to say that the suite travels a multitude of expressive musical byways to create an impressive whole I can easily imagine other duos trying out for themselves.<\/p>\n

Some of the Rameau\/Baroque vibe returns in BGD member Douglas Lora’s Valsa<\/em>; that’s followed quickly by Luiz’s Djavan’s Portrait<\/em>, based on a theme by contemporary Brazilian songwriter\/guitarist Djavan Caetano Viana, whom Luiz cites as an early influence: “I wanted to create a \u00a0kind of lounge samba, with influences of rock, jazz, and Bartok.” Mission accomplished! The title track by David Leisner (again, written for the duo, in 2014) is another fascinating piece that goes many rewarding places, from its slow, minimalist beginning of harmonic pings, to more accelerated passages, and a quiet ending that drops off in a return to harmonics. \u00a0Then, Marco Pereira’s Bate-Coxa<\/em> is a perfect uptempo Brazilian romp to bring the disc to its conclusion.<\/p>\n

Pi\u00e8ces de Clavecin: Les Cyclopes, Gavette avec 6 Doubles<\/em> (Rameau, arr. Luiz); Suite Op. 142<\/em> (Drozd); Bachianas Brasileiras No. 4,<\/em>\u00a0“Preludio”<\/em> (Villa-Lobos, arr. Luiz); Posludio<\/em> (Lora); Valsa<\/em> (Lora); Djavan’s Portrait<\/em> (Luiz); 7 An\u00e9is<\/em> (Gismonti, arr. Luiz); Ghosting<\/em> (Leisner); Bate-Coxa<\/em> (Pereira)<\/p>\n

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

Below, the duo plays a version of Douglas Lora’s <\/em>Posludio a few years ago. That’s him on the right. \u00a0<\/em>
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