What's better than one guitar? Four guitars!
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet makes its Australian debut in a concert full of Spanish colour. They're the soloists in Rodrigo's Concierto andaluz - a sparkling concoction of flamenco dance rhythms and Rodrigo's inimitable melodic voice.
And they amplify the spirit of Andalusia in their own arrangement for guitar quartet and orchestra of highlights from Manuel de Falla's ballet Love, the Magician.
From Spain to the Americas, this magnetic program takes in the indigenous sounds of Mexico, the virile rhythms of the Argentinean plains, and John Adams in exhilarating fanfare mode.
CHÁVEZ Sinfonia india (Symphony No.2)
RODRIGO Concierto andaluz
FALLA El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician): Selections
ADAMS Lollapalooza
GINASTERA Four Dances from Estancia
Michael Stern conductor
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
(John Dearman, Matthew Greif,
William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant)
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Track 1 - CHAVEZ Sinfonia India (Symphony No.2)
New World Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas
DECCA 467 603-2
Track 2 - RODRIGO Concierto andaluz: 1st movement
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet with the Delaware Symphony Orchestra conducted by David Amado
TELARC TEL 31754-02
Excerpt from the recording Interchange used with permission
Track 3 - FALLA El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician): Ritual Fire Dance
New Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
DECCA 466 128-2
Track 4 - GINASTERA Four dances from Estancia: Los peones de hacienda (The Cattlemen)
New World Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas
DECCA 467 603-2
Audio kindly supplied by Silver Partner Universal Music