Happy Birthday Enrique Granados
Marking the 151st anniversary of Spanish composer Enrique Granados‘ birthday with a new playlist on Spotify! Recordings in this playlist
Marking the 151st anniversary of Spanish composer Enrique Granados‘ birthday with a new playlist on Spotify! Recordings in this playlist
As we get close to 2015, we’re taking some time to look back on an exciting 2014 filled with fantastic releases! Below are our March and April releases. Make sure to check back here for the rest of the recaps! Lawrence Brownlee: Virtuoso Rossini Arias GRAMMY Nomination!!!! ICMA Nomination: Best Vocal Recital New York Times…
The Brazilian Guitar Quartet’s Spanish Dances recording receives a rave review from American Record Guide: “Another superb recording by one of the world’s finest guitar quartets. I reviewed enthusiastically their Villa-Lobos disc (J/A 2011). The Grammy judges agreed with me—it earned a Grammy that year. This is every bit as fine. … It also helps…
Audiophile Audition gives a four-star rating to the Brazilian Guitar Quartet’s new Spanish Dances recording: “The quartet has selected six of the best-known Spanish composers of piano music in the 20th century. With their brilliant flair for the sound and spirit of Spanish music, the quartet cannot help but shine in this repertory. … The…
The Brazilian Guitar Quartet’s new Spanish Dances recording is a WQXR (New York) Album of the Week! “The quartet, founded in 1999 and highly respected in its native Brazil, has released its sixth album on Delos, focusing on the rich and varied music of Spain. The album’s 18 selections are arrangements of pieces works originally…
With the recent release of Spanish Dances from The Brazilian Guitar Quartet, we’re doing a #ThrowbackThursday post to this fantastic video of Carol Rosenberger interviewing the quartet: Spanish Dances Buy from Delos Today! Download the Digital Booklet!
Review site, My Classical Notes features the Brazilian Guitar Quartet’s new Delos release, Spanish Dances: “…the BGQ, while best known as Latin American specialists, also has special abilities for the Spanish sound and spirit.” See the full feature for a breakdown of the CD and multiple videos of the quartet performing works by composers represented…
Spanish Dances The Brazilian Guitar Quartet Composers: Manuel de Falla, Enrique Granados, Joaquin Turina, Joaquin Rodrigo, Federico Mompou, Isaac Albéniz “The Brazilians played with one mind … and conveyed all the mystery, joy, passion and pride in this music… this was magical music making.” — Palm Beach Daily News In this, the 2011 Latin Grammy–winning…
In 2006, the BGQ released an entire album presenting Isaac Albéniz’s monumental Suite Iberia – for the first time in an arrangement for a guitar quartet. Critic Arthur Nestrovsky, of the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo, wrote that the arrangement was “the translation of the translation, taking the music back to its origins.” The…
Brazilian Guitar Quartet: Spanish Dances The Unique patterns and sounds of Spanish music – as perhaps most idiomatically realized in the more than 1,000 dance forms native to the Iberian peninsula – is one of the richest cross-cultural amalgams to be found anywhere. Its structural, harmonic and rhythmic foundations go back as far as the…
As we look forward to the CD release of the new Brazilian Guitar Quartet recording, Spanish Dances, we’re having a little #ThrowbackThursday celebration of videos from their past few Delos recordings: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqXury8Qsfw
Now Available for digital streaming and download: Spanish Dances The Brazilian Guitar Quartet “The Brazilians played with one mind … and conveyed all the mystery, joy, passion and pride in this music… this was magical music making.” —Palm Beach Daily News In this, the 2011 Latin Grammy–winning Brazilian Guitar Quartet’s sixth album on Delos, the…
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