{"id":9456,"date":"2018-03-28T16:21:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T23:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=9456"},"modified":"2018-08-23T16:27:12","modified_gmt":"2018-08-23T23:27:12","slug":"recent-albums-by-mark-hussey-boreas-duo-and-the-corium-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-albums-by-mark-hussey-boreas-duo-and-the-corium-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Albums by Mark Hussey, Boreas Duo, and the Corium Project"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most weeks we take a peek 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

If you have a CD you\u2019d like to submit to us, here\u2019s our address:<\/p>\n

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\n501 Canal Blvd. suite J
\nRichmond, CA 94804-3505<\/p>\n

Some of the albums we talk about online will be reviewed in the magazine, some not. But we want to at least mention most of 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 links to all our online album listings\/reviews, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nLaid Back<\/strong><\/em>
\nMark Hussey<\/strong>
\nmarkhussey.com<\/p>\n

I’ll admit that when this CD showed up in mailbox, the combination of the cutesy cartoon cover (and back cover cartoon of rats struggling to steal a guitar case) and the title of the album did not show much promise or draw me in. Then, when I went on YouTube to see Mark Hussey<\/a> in action, I was further put off by the fact that his nom de web<\/em> is “Dr. Fingerstyle.”<\/p>\n

But I now humbly recant my doubts and offer two old sayings as part of my penance: “You can’t judge a book by it’s cover” and “What’s in a name?” Because what we have here is an utterly charming and nicely played disc of, yes, mostly calming, “laid back” classical favorites, including three by T\u00e1rrega, the seemingly inescapable Pachelbel Canon, the requisite foray into Bach, and even a low-key reading of Brahms’ Hungarian Dance No. 5. <\/em>But also here are lovely interpretations of two of Leo Brouwer’s more melodic and accessible offerings (Un Dia de Noviembre<\/em> is fast approaching classical “standard” status), and a pair of fine Brazilian pieces: the bouncy, uptempo\u00a0Sons de Carrilh\u014des<\/em>, and the always-affecting\u00a0Manh\u00e3 de Carnaval<\/em>, which no matter who plays it, immediately puts me in the Marcel Camus film Orfeu Negro<\/em> (for which it was a main theme). It turns out to be friendly and well-balanced selection of pieces.<\/p>\n

And if the cover draws in a few light-hearted souls who might not want to see a photo of some stiff, overly serious guy cradling his precious instrument, all the better! Hussey has enjoyed a career playing in all different styles, so perhaps some who know him through his other work will get a good taste of classical guitar through this.<\/p>\n

Adelita<\/em> (T\u00e1rrega); Air on a G String, BWV 1068<\/em> (J.S. Bach); Canon in D<\/em> (Pachelbel); B\u00e9same Mucho<\/em> (Vel\u00e1zquez); L\u00e1grima<\/em> (T\u00e1rrega); Un Dia de Noviembre<\/em> (Brouwer); Etude 17<\/em> (Brouwer); Sons de Carrilh\u014des<\/em> (Pernambuco); Manh\u00e3 de Carnaval<\/em> (Bonf\u00e1\/Maria); Gran Vals<\/em> (T\u00e1rrega); Hungarian Dance No. 5<\/em> (Brahms)<\/p>\n

Laid Back<\/em> can be purchased though Mark’s website<\/a>, sampled or purchased through Amazon<\/a>, and\u00a0 iTunes\/Apple Music<\/a>, or heard on Spotify<\/a> and YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n