Tomorrow we will have two new fantastic albums hit the store shelves — Love is Everywhere: Selected Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang, Vol. 1, and The Brazilian Guitar Quartet Plays Villa Lobos! But just because those releases haven’t hit the shelves, doesn’t mean we don’t have some reviews to share!
The Brazilian Guitar Quartet Plays Villa-Lobos:
From The Villa-Lobos Magazine:
“The new BGQ Plays Villa-Lobos CD, which will be released later this month, includes a wide selection of music originally written for piano and chamber ensemble, arranged by Tadeu do Amaral for four guitars. The music is selected and presented to show off Villa’s music and the group’s musicianship to best advantage. There are a variety of infectious rhythms, some sweet and sad melodies, moments of modernist angularity, and transcendent beauty from one of Villa’s greatest chamber works…
… It’s interesting, then, to listen to the BCG version of the early modernist piano work Suite Floral, written under the influence of Debussy, Faure, and Ravel. The sound of the guitars evokes the sound-world of Parisian chamber music with harp as much as it does the piano music of the impressionist masters. This is definitely transatlantic music, though, since Brazilian rhythms are an important part of the work. Another piece on this disc which stands out is Amaral’s adaptation of the Twelfth String Quartet, one of Villa’s greatest chamber works, a piece of great subtlety and power. This disc is very highly recommended!”
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Love is Everywhere: Selected Songs of Margaret Ruthven Lang, Vol. 1
From Composer Mary McAuliffe (click for more info on Mary):
These recordings of the songs of Margaret Lang by Donald George and Lucy Mauro are absolutely beautiful and a real delight. The songs are performed with grace and with passion, the voice telling real stories that draw the listener in, and the piano is an equally lovely and
compelling companion, played with delicacy and with flair!Mary McAuliffe
Irish Composer
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