{"id":8271,"date":"2017-11-08T15:51:09","date_gmt":"2017-11-08T23:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=8271"},"modified":"2017-11-08T15:51:09","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T23:51:09","slug":"recent-album-releases-zoran-dukic-matt-withers-paul-ballam-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-album-releases-zoran-dukic-matt-withers-paul-ballam-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Album Releases: Zoran Dukic, Matt Withers, Paul Ballam-Cross"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most weeks 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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\nBach-Piazzola
\n<\/em><\/strong>Zoran Dukic
\n<\/strong>Guitar Coop<\/p>\n

While these days it’s certainly not unusual to hear pieces by Bach and Piazzolla played in the same concert program, what the brilliant Croatian guitarist Zoran Dukic presents here is a new, and to my my ears, very successfully realized concept: alternating Bach and Piazzolla pieces (six by Bach, five by Piazzolla) for an entire album. It’s an interesting juxtaposition. All the Bach pieces (from violin works, save for one from a Cello Suite) are slow movements (a largo<\/em>, an andante, <\/em>a Siciliana,<\/em> and three\u00a0sarabandes<\/em>) that share a somewhat similar, deliberate and contemplative character\u2014though there is still much emotional range within that set, from the somewhat dark sarabande from the fifth Cello Suite, to the brighter Siciliana from Violin Sonata No. 1. <\/em>The Piazzolla works are more stylistically varied, sometimes moving within the same piece from solemn passages that almost feel like extensions of the Bach, to abrupt, spikey leaps, fast runs, and elements of tango that are clearly products of a modern composer. I can’t tell you why it works, but it does (for me, anyway). Hearing familiar Piazzolla pieces such as Invierno Porte\u00f1o <\/em>and\u00a0Adios Nonino <\/em>is this context really does make them feel a bit different (and the Bach is similarly “affected” by the Piazzolla, as well). My greatest personal discovery was the final Piazzolla track, Milonga del <\/em>\u00c1ngel<\/em>; such a gorgeous work!<\/p>\n

Largo <\/em>from Violin Sonata No. 3, BWV 1005<\/em> (Bach); Invierno Porte\u00f1o<\/em> (Piazzolla, arr. Assad); Andante <\/em>from Violin Sonata No. 2, BWV 1003)<\/em> (Bach); Adios Nonino<\/em> (Piazzolla; arr. Tirao); Sarabande <\/em>from Violin Partita No. 1, BWV 1002<\/em>\u00a0 (Bach); La muerte del <\/em>\u00c1ngel<\/em> (Piazzolla; arr. Brouwer); Sarabande<\/em> from Cello Suite No. 5, BWV 1011<\/em> (Bach); Rom<\/em>\u00e1ntico<\/em> from Cinco piezas para guitarra<\/em> (Piazzolla); Siciliana<\/em> from Violin Sonata No. 1, BWV 1001<\/em> (Bach); Milonga del <\/em>\u00c1ngel<\/em> (Piazzolla, arr. Benitez); Sarabande<\/em> from Violin Partita No. 2, BWV 1004<\/em>\u00a0(Bach)<\/p>\n

The album can be bought through Guitar Salon International;<\/a>\u00a0sampled<\/a> or purchased<\/a> through Guitar Coop; and heard on AppleMusic and bought through iTunes.<\/a><\/p>\n