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Naxos

Guitar Collection - Duarte: Guitar Music / Antigoni Goni

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Details

Composer
DUARTE
Artist
Antigoni, Goni
Format
CD
Label
Naxos
Released
Jul 01, 2001
Catalog #
8554554
UPC
636943455425

About


John Duarte always composed for the most purist reason there is--the sheer love of it. Beginning in his teens as an amateur jazz guitarist, he soon began writing more classically inspired works primarily based on improvisation. Just before his 50th birthday, Duarte's "increasingly rewarding hobby" (as he puts it in the notes) made him decide to retire professionally as a scientist and devote himself to composing. Since then, Duarte has established quite a reputation in guitar circles, recieving commissions from such luminaries as Andrés Segovia and John Williams. Now an octogenarian, Duarte seems never to have lost sight of his original motive: making the appeal of his music simple. He writes completely unpretentious, accessible tunes arising from his own pleasure and offered for the pleasure of others.

While most of the selections here were composed with other guitarists in mind, Antigoni Goni's performances are thoroughly enjoyable and technically faultless. The opening Pastorale movement of the first selection, Suite Piemontese, features a lively dance riddled with counterpoint in the tradition of Tarrega (La Cartagenera instantly comes to mind). Goni's expert rendering of Duarte's triptych suite Birds is equally stunning with its sudden chromatic shifts and near-gymnastic fingering requirements. Less virtuosic though equally inspired is Duarte's Musikones, a five-movement suite featuring three Terpsichores that clearly give a melodic nod to Erik Satie's first three Gnossiennes. Here Duarte's improvisational brilliance transforms Satie's meditations into bizarre sinister dances.

As usual, Naxos' sound is excellent, with Goni's guitar amply detailed in a dry acoustic setting. Duarte's rather personable notes read like reflections, briefly outlining his life, the selections, and his overall raison d'être. Naxos' ongoing Guitar Collection series has continued to offer many outstanding recitals of works by unjustly neglected composers. Adam Holzman's recent program of Antonio Lauro's Venezuelan Waltzes, as well as Richard Cobo's first volume in what eventually will be a complete cycle of Leo Brouwer's guitar works are cases in point and should not be missed. Nor should this outstanding, very pleasurable disc.
--John Greene, ClassicsToday.com

Tracklist 24 tracks

  1. 1 I. Pastorale 03:15
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Pastorale
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  2. 2 II. Canzone 04:42
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Canzone
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  3. 3 III. La Danza 02:42
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. La Danza
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  4. 4 I. Ritual Dance 02:41
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Ritual Dance
    Duration
    02:41
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  5. 5 II. Waltz 02:44
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Waltz
    Duration
    02:44
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  6. 6 III. Spring Dance 03:09
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Spring Dance
    Duration
    03:09
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  7. 7 I. Terpsichore I 01:41
    Track
    7
    Title
    I. Terpsichore I
    Duration
    01:41
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  8. 8 II. Erato 02:06
    Track
    8
    Title
    II. Erato
    Duration
    02:06
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  9. 9 III. Terpsichore II 01:45
    Track
    9
    Title
    III. Terpsichore II
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  10. 10 IV. Euterpe 02:17
    Track
    10
    Title
    IV. Euterpe
    Duration
    02:17
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  11. 11 V. Terpsichore III 02:46
    Track
    11
    Title
    V. Terpsichore III
    Duration
    02:46
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  12. 12 I. Prelude 02:34
    Track
    12
    Title
    I. Prelude
    Duration
    02:34
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  13. 13 II. Folk-song 04:02
    Track
    13
    Title
    II. Folk-song
    Duration
    04:02
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  14. 14 III. Round Dance 02:10
    Track
    14
    Title
    III. Round Dance
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  15. 15 Variations on a Catalan Folk Song, Op. 25 11:36
    Track
    15
    Title
    Variations on a Catalan Folk Song, Op. 25
    Duration
    11:36
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  16. 16 I. Swallows 02:48
    Track
    16
    Title
    I. Swallows
    Duration
    02:48
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  17. 17 II. The Swan 04:21
    Track
    17
    Title
    II. The Swan
    Duration
    04:21
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  18. 18 III. Sparrows 02:24
    Track
    18
    Title
    III. Sparrows
    Duration
    02:24
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  19. 19 I. Moderato, con grazia 01:37
    Track
    19
    Title
    I. Moderato, con grazia
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  20. 20 II. Andante espressivo 02:33
    Track
    20
    Title
    II. Andante espressivo
    Duration
    02:33
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  21. 21 III. Rondo 02:10
    Track
    21
    Title
    III. Rondo
    Duration
    02:10
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  22. 22 I. Con anima 01:35
    Track
    22
    Title
    I. Con anima
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  23. 23 II. Con delicatezza 02:28
    Track
    23
    Title
    II. Con delicatezza
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni
  24. 24 III. Vivo 02:19
    Track
    24
    Title
    III. Vivo
    Duration
    02:19
    Composer
    John W. Duarte
    Performer
    Antigoni Goni