Rupert Boyd – The Guitar (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:00:10 minutes | 2,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Sono Luminus
This album pays homage to the guitar. While the casual listener may recognise many of these works as favourites from the guitar canon, the majority of the repertoire wasn’t originally written for the instrument.
Only the Sor and the Brouwer were originally guitar compositions. The other works started life in a different form, and stand testament to the strength and versatility of the guitar to not only play such a diverse range of repertoire, but to truly embrace it.
With its polyphonic capabilities and roots in popular music around the world, the guitar is singularly capable of such a traverse of styles. This album is not, as the title may imply, a collection of the most beloved or greatest hits from the classical guitar repertoire, but instead a demonstration of the power and ability of the guitar to perform and assume ownership of such beloved repertoire.
—Rupert Boyd