Shand: Guitar Music / La Rocca

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Brilliant Classics
Release Date
January 7, 2022
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Ernest Shand
    • PERFORMER
      Alberto La Rocca
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 07, 2022
    • UPC
      5028421964355
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BRI96435
    • LABEL
      Brilliant Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      3
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Tsigane (Gipsy Dance), Op. 66

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    2. Songe d'Amour (Introduction et Romance), Op. 57

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    3. 6 Pièces: No. 4. Prélude and Impromptu

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    4. Légende, Op. 201

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    5. 6 Pièces: No. 6. Il pensieroso

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    6. Andante expressivo, Op. 60

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    7. The Gnomes, Op. 77

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    8. 6 Pièces: No. 1. Chanson

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    9. Vain Regret, Op. 112 (Mélodie)

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    10. Andante Caprice, Op. 65

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    11. Varsovie Mazurka, Op. 204

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    12. Andante religioso, Op. 87

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    13. Phyllis-Gavotte, Op. 200

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    14. Songes d'été, Op. 95

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    15. Funeral March, Op. 89

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    16. Scène de Ballet, Op. 72

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    17. I. Calme du soir

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    18. II. Berceuse

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    19. 6 Pièces: No. 3. Gavotte Rococo

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    20. Auf Wiedersehn, Op. 117

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    21. Morceau lyrique No. 1, Op. 97

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    22. Morceau lyrique No. 2, Op. 104

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    23. Morceau lyrique No. 3, Op. 111

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    24. Hungarian Dance, Op. 96

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    25. Au coin de feu, Op. 202

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    26. Fantaisie Irlandaise, Op. 59

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    27. March of the Pixies, Op. 16

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    28. No. 1. Inquiétude

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    29. No. 2. Espérance

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    30. No. 3. Joie

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    31. An Evening Rêverie, Op. 54

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    32. Study for the R.H., Op. 41

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    33. Study, Op. 2

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    34. Study, Op. 19

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    35. Study on Repeated Notes, Op. 43

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    36. Mélodie (Nocturne), Op. 51

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    37. Dance antique, Op. 88

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    38. Sorrow and Song, Op. 70

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    39. A Nymph's Dance (Petit morceau), Op. 205

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    40. Farewell, Op. 10

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    41. Impromptu, Op. 108

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    42. A Forgotten Strain, Op. 116

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    43. Improved Method, Op. 100: A Fragment

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    44. Introduction et chanson, Op. 220

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    45. Mazurka russe in A Major, Op. 21

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    46. Cradle Song, Op. 99

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    47. 6 Pièces: No. 2. Valse legère

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    48. Souvenir in G Major, Op. 53

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    49. Gavotte

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    50. Méditation

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    51. March in E Minor, Op. 91

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    52. Divertimento in A Major, Op. 6

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    53. Mazurka in E Minor, Op. 36

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    54. Autumn Leaves, Op. 129

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    55. Dance capriccio, Op. 28

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    56. Andante in E Major, Op. 86

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    57. Marche triumphale in A Major, Op. 109

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    58. 6 Pièces: No. 5. Chant du soir

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    59. Graceful Dance, Op. 29, No. 2

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca

    60. Forever

      Composer: Ernest Shand

      Performer: Alberto La Rocca


According to the guitarist Alberto La Rocca, Ernest Shand can be considered ‘one of the greatest composers for the guitar of all time’. Born into a musical family in Hull in 1868, Shand firstly learnt the rudiments of the instrument from his father before coming under the instruction of Catharina Pratten, a German guitarist who had performed as a child with Regondi and later with Gounod and Tárrega. She later married the English flautist Robert Sidney Pratten, settled in the UK and became known as ‘Madame Sidney Pratten’, and as one of the most celebrated guitar virtuosos of her day. Shand quickly proved himself to be her most talented pupil, and Pratten declared that his compositions far surpassed her own. During his lifetime Shand was widely recognized as the greatest English classical guitarist and composer, but his music fell into obscurity soon after his death in 1924. His surviving output of 220 works reveals a guitar composer of great originality and charm who had a gift for spinning infectious melodies. Many of these pieces were originally composed for Shand to perform himself on tours which took him afar as Australia. He retired from performance in 1897, however, after being assaulted at a concert in Nottingham by a Russian audience-member who had taken exception to a patriotic song. Thereafter he concentrated on composition, and his later music inflects his essentially Romantic style with bold modulations, modal writing and hints of the Impressionism that would become hallmarks of the revolution in guitar music wrought some decades later by Villa-Lobos above all.