Andrès Segovia – Andrés Segovia – The Art of Segovia (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Andrès Segovia – Andrés Segovia – The Art of Segovia (2021)
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DG has put together a fascinating compilation of Segovia’s art that reminds us what a protean figure he was. Segovia single-handedly put the instrument on the map by making classical guitar concerts popular events, broadening the instrument’s repertory through commissions and transcriptions, and convincing even doubters that it could be a vehicle for serious music. He’s heard here in brief pieces recorded between 1952 and 1969. Even in those made when he was well into his 70s, his fingers remain nimble and interpretations lively. Listening straight through, one hears many all-time Segovia favorites as Turina’s Sevillana and Albeniz’s Asturias and Zambra Granadina and renews appreciation for path-breaking composers like Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He wrote extensively for Segovia and his Capriccio diabolico and Tonadilla are pieces of real substance. Disc two is largely made up transcriptions and it’s amazing how well so many of them work on the guitar, at least under Segovia’s magic fingers. Thus the transformations of Bach’s violin music and even a Chopin Prelude sound idiomatic, and the gorgeous melodies of the Canzonetta from Mendelssohn’s Op. 12 String Quartet are irresistible here. An entrancing set. –Dan Davis

Tracklist:
1-1. Andrès Segovia – Tárrega: Recuerdos de la Alhambra (05:15)
1-2. Andrès Segovia – Tárrega: Capricho árabe (05:26)
1-3. Andrès Segovia – Tárrega: Marieta (02:29)
1-4. Andrès Segovia – Moreno Torroba: Romance de los pinos (01:46)
1-5. Andrès Segovia – Madroños (02:56)
1-6. Andrès Segovia – Moreno Torroba: Serenata burlesca (02:55)
1-7. Andrès Segovia – Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op.9 (07:07)
1-8. Andrès Segovia – Le tombeau de Debussy” (02:41)
1-9. Andrès Segovia – Ponce: Theme, Variations And Finale (07:57)
1-10. Andrès Segovia – Traditional: Mexican Folksong (01:32)
1-11. Andrès Segovia – Turina: Sevillana (05:59)
1-12. Andrès Segovia – Rodrigo: Sarabanda (05:04)
1-13. Andrès Segovia – Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Capricho diabolico, Op.85 (09:14)
1-14. Andrès Segovia – Tonadilla (on the name of Andrés Segovia) (05:10)
1-15. Andrès Segovia – No. 1 in E minor (04:27)
1-16. Andrès Segovia – No. 3 in A minor (05:14)
1-17. Andrès Segovia – Pedrell: Guitarreo (01:27)
1-18. Andrès Segovia – Roussel: Segovia, Op.29 (02:59)
1-19. Andrès Segovia – Dowland: If my complaints (02:07)
1-20. Andrès Segovia – The Frog Galliard (00:50)
1-21. Andrès Segovia – 3. Sarabande (Arr. For Solo Guitar By Andrés Segovia) (04:01)
1-22. Andrès Segovia – 1. Prélude (02:19)
1-23. Andrès Segovia – Bourrée (03:36)
1-24. Andrès Segovia – 3. Courante (02:59)
1-25. Andrès Segovia – 3. Gavotte en Rondeau (03:01)
1-26. Andrès Segovia – Frescobaldi: Aria e Corrente (06:40)
1-27. Andrès Segovia – D. Scarlatti: Sonata in C minor, K.11 (03:17)
1-28. Andrès Segovia – Menuet in G (03:39)
1-29. Andrès Segovia – Ponce, Paganini: Andantino variato (07:40)
1-30. Andrès Segovia – No. 7 In A Major (01:00)
1-31. Andrès Segovia – Canzonetta (04:32)
1-32. Andrès Segovia – 2. Quasi lento (Preludio) (01:08)
1-33. Andrès Segovia – 1. Andantino poco Allegretto (03:02)
1-34. Andrès Segovia – The Old Castle (04:52)
1-35. Andrès Segovia – No.3 Melody (03:31)
1-36. Andrès Segovia – Debussy: La fille aux cheveux de lin (02:55)
1-37. Andrès Segovia – No. 4 in E flat minor (01:14)
1-38. Andrès Segovia – No.5: Asturias (06:26)
1-39. Andrès Segovia – 7. Zambra Granadina (04:45)
1-40. Andrès Segovia – Estudio sin luz (02:49)
1-41. Andrès Segovia – 3. Danza de las hachas (Allegro con brio) (02:13)

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