{"id":7836,"date":"2017-09-12T16:48:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T23:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=7836"},"modified":"2017-09-12T16:48:45","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T23:48:45","slug":"recent-releases-tuesday-albums-by-hamish-strathdee-thanos-mitsalas-plays-assad-chamber-works-and-tony-romano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-releases-tuesday-albums-by-hamish-strathdee-thanos-mitsalas-plays-assad-chamber-works-and-tony-romano\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Releases Tuesday: Albums by Hamish Strathdee, Thanos Mitsalas Plays Assad Chamber Works, and Tony Romano"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most Tuesdays we take a peak at recent albums or sheet music releases. Here are three of the CDs that have come into the\u00a0Classical Guitar<\/em>\u00a0office recently.<\/p>\n

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Some of the albums we talk about online 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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\nImpressions of Spain<\/strong><\/em>
\nHamish Strathdee<\/strong>
\nhamishstrathdee.com<\/p>\n

The \u201cSpanish album,\u201d as one guitarist noted not too long ago, is something of a rite of passage in the classical guitar community; a usually predictable touchstone. But the young Australian Hamish Strathdee<\/a>\u2019s excellent debut, Impressions of Spain<\/em>, is a thoroughly engaging album that steers clear of the usual Recuerdos<\/em>, Asturias<\/em>, Sevilla<\/em>, etc., in favor of slightly less-traveled works, such as Joaqu\u00edn Rodrigo’s Junto al Generalife<\/em>, Granados’ complete Valses Poeticos<\/em>, arranged by Minh Le Hoang (of the Australian quartet Guitar Trek, and also one of Strathdee’s teachers at Australian National University), and Antonio Jos\u00e9’s wonderfully varied, four-part Sonata para guitarra<\/em>. Strathdee plays the faster passages in all these pieces with a nimble assurance, and he really wrings both the lyricism and emotion from the quieter movements (such as “Melodioso” from the Granados, the “Passacaglia” from Rodrigo’s Tres piezas Espa\u00f1olas<\/em>, and “Pavana Triste” from the Sonata<\/em>. Strathdee’s Smallman guitar sounds gloriously warm and rich throughout the program. Aussie classical guitar titan Timothy Kain produced, and the recording by David Neil is full of depth and life\u2014nicely ambient but not overly so. A nice find!<\/p>\n

Junto al Generalife<\/em> (Rodrigo);\u00a0 8 Valses Poeticos<\/em> (Granados); Tres piezas Espa\u00f1olas<\/em> (Rodrigo); Sonata para Guitarra<\/em> (Jos\u00e9)<\/p>\n

You can preview and purchase Strathdee’s album through CDBaby,<\/a>\u00a0Amazon<\/a> and\u00a0iTunes<\/a>,\u00a0and hear it on Apple Music<\/a> and Spotify.<\/p>\n