Description
Naxos: Leo Brouwer — Guitar Music, Vol. 1 (Audio CD)
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Product Details
- Product Type: Audio CD
- Brand / Label: Naxos
- Artist: Leo Brouwer (Compositions) / Ricardo Cobo (Guitar)
- Release Year: 1997
- Genre: Classical
- Style: Modern Era / Twentieth-Century Avant-Garde Guitar Compositions
Product Features
- Format: CD, Album, Stereo
- Discs: 1
- Condition: Brand New / Factory Sealed (MINT)
- Country of Manufacture: Made in Germany
- Catalog Number: 8.553630
- UPC / Barcode: 730099463027
Overview
This exceptional volume serves as the core foundational dynamic entry in Naxos’s universally acclaimed survey of global guitar literature, honoring the profound compositional voice of Cuban master Leo Brouwer. Recorded at the historic St. John Chrysostom Church in Newmarket, Canada, from August 1st to 4th, 1995, the performance frames Brouwer's unique stylistic evolution using state-of-the-art 20-bit high-definition digital audio technology. Executed with flawless structural authority and deep emotional precision by award-winning soloist Ricardo Cobo, this definitive compilation pairs his landmark educational cycle Estudios Sencillos with his highly evocative thematic sketches, beautifully bridging structural modernism with rich Afro-Cuban rhythmic landscapes.
Interesting Facts
- Features front cover artwork titled Rio San Juan by the celebrated historical landscape artist Victor Manuel Garcia Valdes, sourced directly from the collections of the Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte in Berlin.
- Features the seminal pedagogical masterpiece Estudios Sencillos (Simple Studies) arranged fully across its defining historic first, second, third, and fourth compositional series blocks.
Track Listing
- Danza característica (Quítate de la acera) — 2:00 2–6. Estudios Sencillos: Primera serie (First Series) — 3:51 7–11. Estudios Sencillos: Segunda serie (Second Series) — 4:00 12–16. Estudios Sencillos: Tercera serie (Third Series) — 9:48 17–21. Estudios Sencillos: Cuarta serie (Fourth Series) — 10:50
- Preludio (1956) — 1:32
- Fuga No. 1 — 2:45 24–26. Piezas sin título Nos. 1-3 (Pieces without Title) — 4:46 27–28. Dos aires populares cubanos (Two Popular Cuban Airs) — 4:12 29–31. Tres apuntes (1959) (Three Sketches) — 5:51
- Canción de cuna (Berceuse) — 3:46
- Ojos brujos (Sorcerer's Eyes) — 2:01 34–35. Elogio de la danza (Homage to the Dance) — 5:55
Publishers
- ℗ 1997 HNH International Ltd. / © 1997 HNH International Ltd. Distributed by MVD Music and Video Distribution GmbH.
- Artistic and Production Co-ordination: Norbert Kraft. Producer and Editor: Bonnie Kraft.
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