|
|
DiscountDelight - Reflections of Spain: Spanish Favorites for Guitar
|
List Price: $18.98
Our Price: $12.44
Your Save: $ 6.54 ( 34% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Telarc
|
Average Customer Rating: 
|
|
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0089408057625
Label: Telarc
Manufacturer: Telarc
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Telarc
Release Date: 2002-01-22
Studio: Telarc
|
|
|
|
|
|
Spotlight customer reviews:
|
Customer Rating:
Summary: The Best
Comment: This is the best Spanish guitar CDs that I have found. Even with "Essential Guitar: 33 Guitar Masterpieces" having more tracks and two CDs, this is better material. I am not saying that "33 Guitar Masterpiece" was bad, I actually rate it second. No need to skip through "Reflections" like many other compilations of this mixed type CD. The quaility is crisp but lower overall peak (loudness) sound compared to some of my other CDs. Read reviews of other CDs of this type because there is many that have substandard recording measures. I believe this is a must for the any guitar lover!!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Yet another Spanish guitar music....
Comment: Like every one else I have probably heard all other worthy versions of most of these tunes....I happened to find out about David Russell via reading a bio of Barrios and recommended recordings....it said...Dave Russell is the man...I had not heard of him before that...I got the CD...and WOW...!!then I got interested in his music so I bought anything I could from him including the Aire latino , plays Bach and this one....this guy was born to play the classical guitar...
This is the first artist that I hear uses proper dynamics in his performance...the rest of the pack do not nearly use the guitar as a guitar they use it just another vehicle to play a composition....David's strumming...pulling pushing the music and his singing tone is above all others...not as controled as other classical players....if people played the guitar as a guitar not as a lute..or harpsicored or a piano...then this is what it should sound like...acoustic guitar's range is very limited ...but in the hands of a master...there are no limits....
Customer Rating:
Summary: Simple beauty
Comment: The combination of scottish genes and Spanish environment upbringing, and so much unseen work and talent comes out as simple beauty. The guitar is played as if effortlessly on all these wonderful famous classical guitar pieces. I happened to listen to the same pieces played live by a great guitarist in Spain this summer. Of course this CD is registered in a studio, but still the style and sounds coming from David Russell's guitar are incomparable. The CD is a beautiful gift. I tried it with different people and they all loved it and couldn't help listening to it right away. You won't wait to see David Russel on stage playing these live!
Customer Rating:
Summary: David Russell's sensational Legends of Spain CD
Comment: This is a sensational CD of Spanish guitar music, one of the best I have heard in quite some time, and that includes John Williams' all- Albeniz CD, or Julian Bream's CD of Spanish guitar music, which are both very fine. David Russell is mesmerizing, both musically and technically.
The disc contains Serenata by Malats; Tarrega's Capricho Arabe, and Recuerdos de la Alhambra; Granados' Spanish Dances 5 & 10, La Maja de Goya,and Valses Poeticos; Albeniz's Sevilla, Mallorca, and Asturias; and Cancion y Danza no. 1 by Antonio Ruiz Pipo.
David Russell's technique must be heard to be believed. It is staggering.
This is my fifth David Russell CD (David Russell plays: 1) Bach, 2) Baroque, 3) Barrios, and 4) Aire Latino. His Legends of Spain might be his best CD I've heard so far. These five CDs are all so different musically, as to make comparisons difficult.
This is the sort of CD ideal to give to friends who love either the classical guitar, or Spanish classical guitar music. A must.
Up close, larger than life, if very clear, fine sound.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Delicious music
Comment: This is probably my favorite CD of all time. I play it nearly every evening, sending me off to sleep dreaming of the perfume of the orange blossoms in the gardens of the Alcazar in Cordoba some moonlit summer night. (Been there, done that!) This album is exquisite - David Russell is a magnificent guitarist in terms of technique, style and taste equally, and the recording is crystalline. You can't go wrong with this one.
|
|
|
Editorial Reviews:
|
David Russell was born in Glasgow, Scotland, but his family moved to Spain while he was still a young boy so he could study music in the birthplace of classical guitar. On Reflections of Spain, Russell plays the music of his childhood home with all the joy you would expect from someone revisiting a beloved place. Russell's formidable technique is powered by a keen intelligence and tempered by an emotional delivery. He plays chestnuts like Tarrega's "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" and Albeinez's "Austurias" with a fond intimacy that rescues them from cliché. Perhaps the finest moments on the CD are Russell's guitar arrangements of four of Granados's compositions. Although Granados wrote pieces like "Danza Melancolia" and "Andaluza" for piano, Russell's thoughtful versions remind us that the folk dances that inspired them were originally accompanied by the guitar. David Russell is one the finest classical guitarists to emerge in recent years, and his playing on Reflections of Spain is a near perfect wedding of technique and temperament. --Michael Simmons
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
