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A Healing Fire / Smaro Gregoriadou
Delos

A Healing Fire / Smaro Gregoriadou

$18.99

Details

Composer
BACH BRITTEN GUBAIDULINA
Artist
Smaro Gregoriadou
Format
CD
Label
Delos
Released
Oct 09, 2020
Catalog #
DE 3582
UPC
013491358222

About

As the innovative, world-renowned guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou says in her notes for this stunning new recording, her fourth for Delos, its music offers “encouragement and hope,” and illuminates with “a different kind of light, a different sort of fire.” The program begins with her beautiful transcription of Bach’s beloved Solo Violin Sonata #2 and offers Britten’s fascinating Nocturnal, along with works by Gubaidulina and Hétu. As Raymond Tuttle put it, in a Fanfare review of one of Smaro’s earlier Delos releases, “Gregoriadou evokes musicians such as Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould, and Wanda Landowska in her willingness to find a new way to express herself and to reanimate the music.”

REVIEW:

What is special about this recording is Gregoriadou’s focus on timbre. Her technique is exceptional, but it is always at the service of creating a sound world with a wide spectrum. Her dynamic shading in the last movement of the Hétu is astonishing, and it is so effortlessly achieved that you don’t think about technique as you listen. I don’t think of Gregoriadou as a guitarist. I think of her as a musician who happens to play the guitar. This is a very beautiful guitar recital, with recorded sound that makes it seem as if you are in the room with Gregoriadou, and at just the right distance for the best perspective.

-- Fanfare

Tracklist 11 tracks

  1. 1 I. Grave 03:54
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Grave
    Duration
    03:54
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Smaro Gregoriadou
  2. 2 II. Fuga 08:02
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Fuga
    Duration
    08:02
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Smaro Gregoriadou
  3. 3 III. Andante 04:52
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Andante
    Duration
    04:52
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Smaro Gregoriadou
  4. 4 IV. Allegro 06:18
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    06:18
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Smaro Gregoriadou
  5. 5 Nocturnal after John Dowland: Reflections on Come, heavy sleep, Op. 70 (arr. S. Gregoriadou) 17:27
    Track
    5
    Title
    Nocturnal after John Dowland: Reflections on Come, heavy sleep, Op. 70 (arr. S. Gregoriadou)
    Duration
    17:27
    Composer
    Benjamin Britten
    Performer
    Smaro Gregoriadou
  6. 6 Serenade (arr. S. Gregoriadou) 03:06
    Track
    6
    Title
    Serenade (arr. S. Gregoriadou)
    Duration
    03:06
    Composer
    Sofia Gubaidulina
    Performer
    Smaro Gregoriadou
  7. 7 I. Prélude 01:28
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Prélude
    Duration
    01:28
    Composer
    Jacques Hétu
    Performer
    Smaro Gregoriadou
  8. 8 II. Nocturne 03:44
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Nocturne
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Jacques Hétu
    Performer
    Smaro Gregoriadou
  9. 9 III. Ballade 04:08
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Ballade
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Jacques Hétu
    Performer
    Smaro Gregoriadou
  10. 10 IV. Rêverie 03:21
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Rêverie
    Duration
    03:21
    Composer
    Jacques Hétu
    Performer
    Smaro Gregoriadou
  11. 11 V. Final 03:53
    Track
    11
    Title
    V. Final
    Duration
    03:53
    Composer
    Jacques Hétu
    Performer
    Smaro Gregoriadou