Jacob Kellermann – Rodrigo, Coll & Harden: Guitar Works (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Jacob Kellermann - Rodrigo, Coll & Harden: Guitar Works (2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

Jacob Kellermann – Rodrigo, Coll & Harden: Guitar Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:22 minutes | 1,05 GB | Genre: Classical
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Inspired by Miles Davis’s legendary album Sketches of Spain, this project intend to conjure up Spain ‘as if through a prism – as a concept rather than a place’. Guitarist Jacob Kellermann and conductor Christian Karlsen worked with hyped young composers Francisco Coll and Pete Harden, who have each contributed a concertante work for guitar and ensemble. With Turia, Coll has returned to his roots – the dried-out river that once flowed through his (and Rodrigo’s) hometown Valencia. He has described it as his most ‘flamenco-colored’ work so far, intended to ‘evoke the light and the respective shadows’ of Spain. em>Turia is followed by two classics of Spanish music: Manuel de Falla’s Homenaje for solo guitar and Evocación by Isaac Albéniz, here in Karlsen’s atmospheric arrangement for ensemble.
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Daniel Migdal & Jacob Kellermann – Schubert: Sonatas (Arr. for Violin & Guitar) (2018) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Daniel Migdal & Jacob Kellermann – Schubert: Sonatas (Arr. for Violin & Guitar) (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:22 minutes | 1,11 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © BIS

As Jacob Kellermann points out in the liner notes to this disc, there is an unbroken tradition of performing arrangements of Franz Schubert’s music on the guitar. Already in his lifetime some of his most popular songs appeared with simplified guitar accompaniment, marketed by music publishers wanting to exploit the growing market for domestic music-making. Schubert himself composed very little for the instrument, and there are doubts regarding Schubert’s own skills on the instrument. Nevertheless it is well known that the guitar was in fashion with the middle-class Viennese among which Schubert and his circle of friends moved. In his notes, Kellermann argues that elements of the light, melody-driven and carefree musical style favoured in that environment and present in stylized form in much of Schubert’s music is the very aspect that makes it so inviting to play on the guitar. DuoKeMi was formed by Kellermann and Daniel Migdal in 2006, and the two are constantly aiming to expand the repertoire for their combination of instruments. This has resulted in a number of commissions as well as new transcriptions, often by Kellermann himself as in the case of the much-loved Arpeggione Sonata recorded here.

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