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The Guitar / Rupert Boyd
Sono Luminus

The Guitar / Rupert Boyd

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Details

Composer
VARIOUS
Artist
Rupert Boyd
Format
CD
Label
Sono Luminus
Released
Apr 26, 2019
Catalog #
DSL-92231
UPC
053479223128

About

This album pays homage to the guitar. While the casual listener may recognize many of these works as favorites from the guitar canon, the majority of the repertoire wasn’t originally written for the instrument.

Only the Sor and the Brouwer were originally guitar compositions. The other works started life in a different form, and stand testament to the strength and versatility of the guitar to not only play such a diverse range of repertoire, but to truly embrace it. With its polyphonic capabilities and roots in popular music around the world, the guitar is singularly capable of such a traverse of styles. This album is not, as the title may imply, a collection of the most beloved or greatest hits from the classical guitar repertoire, but instead a demonstration of the power and ability of the guitar to perform and assume ownership of such beloved repertoire.

New York-based Australian classical guitarist Rupert Boyd has been described by The Washington Post as “truly evocative”, by Gramophone as a “fine guitarist”, and by Classical Guitar Magazine as “a player who deserves to be heard”. He has performed across four continents, from New York’s Carnegie Hall, to festivals in Europe, China, India, Nepal, the Philippines, New Zealand and Australia. Active as both a soloist and chamber musician, Rupert Boyd regularly performs throughout the world in Boyd Meets Girl, with cellist Laura Metcalf, and as part of the Australian Guitar Duo with guitarist Jacob Cordover.

REVIEWS:

The sheer versatility of this instrument comes to the fore in a really eclectic selection, which traverses centuries of music from Bach to The Beatles in a sunny 60 minutes.

– BBC Music Magazine

Boyd is a very fine musician. His sense of line is beautifully showcased in Bach’s Suite, while his rhythmic acuity enlivens from the onset of Jobim’s Felicidade, performed here in Roland Dyens’s masterly arrangement. The final item, Boyd’s own technically assured arrangement of John Lennon’s ‘Julia’, makes for a quiet, slightly downbeat encore.

– Gramophone

Tracklist 23 tracks

  1. 1 Felicidade (arr. R. Dyens for guitar) 04:41
    Track
    1
    Title
    Felicidade (arr. R. Dyens for guitar)
    Duration
    04:41
    Composer
    Antônio Carlos Jobim
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  2. 2 Estrada branca (arr. P. Bellinati for guitar) 02:47
    Track
    2
    Title
    Estrada branca (arr. P. Bellinati for guitar)
    Duration
    02:47
    Composer
    Antônio Carlos Jobim
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  3. 3 Introduction and Variations on a theme by Mozart, Op. 9 08:03
    Track
    3
    Title
    Introduction and Variations on a theme by Mozart, Op. 9
    Duration
    08:03
    Composer
    Fernando Sor
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  4. 4 I. Preludio 04:21
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Preludio
    Duration
    04:21
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  5. 5 II. Loure 03:25
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Loure
    Duration
    03:25
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  6. 6 III. Gavotte en rondeau 03:18
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Gavotte en rondeau
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  7. 7 IV. Menuett I-II 04:53
    Track
    7
    Title
    IV. Menuett I-II
    Duration
    04:53
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  8. 8 V. Bourrée 01:37
    Track
    8
    Title
    V. Bourrée
    Duration
    01:37
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  9. 9 VI. Gigue 02:03
    Track
    9
    Title
    VI. Gigue
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    Johann Sebastian Bach
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  10. 10 A Closed World of Fine Feelings and Grand Design 05:20
    Track
    10
    Title
    A Closed World of Fine Feelings and Grand Design
    Duration
    05:20
    Composer
    Graeme Koehne
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  11. 11 No. 1. Movido 00:45
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 1. Movido
    Duration
    00:45
    Composer
    Leo Brouwer
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  12. 12 No. 2. Coral 01:09
    Track
    12
    Title
    No. 2. Coral
    Duration
    01:09
    Composer
    Leo Brouwer
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  13. 13 No. 3. Rápido 00:20
    Track
    13
    Title
    No. 3. Rápido
    Duration
    00:20
    Composer
    Leo Brouwer
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  14. 14 No. 4. Cómodo: Allegretto 00:41
    Track
    14
    Title
    No. 4. Cómodo: Allegretto
    Duration
    00:41
    Composer
    Leo Brouwer
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  15. 15 No. 5. Montune: Allegretto 00:50
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 5. Montune: Allegretto
    Duration
    00:50
    Composer
    Leo Brouwer
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  16. 16 No. 6. — 01:01
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 6. —
    Duration
    01:01
    Composer
    Leo Brouwer
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  17. 17 No. 7. Lo más rápido posible 00:38
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 7. Lo más rápido posible
    Duration
    00:38
    Composer
    Leo Brouwer
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  18. 18 No. 8. Tranquillo 01:20
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 8. Tranquillo
    Duration
    01:20
    Composer
    Leo Brouwer
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  19. 19 No. 9. Scherzo 00:38
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 9. Scherzo
    Duration
    00:38
    Composer
    Leo Brouwer
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  20. 20 No. 10. — 00:41
    Track
    20
    Title
    No. 10. —
    Duration
    00:41
    Composer
    Leo Brouwer
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  21. 21 Milonga del Angel (arr. B. Benitez for guitar) 05:31
    Track
    21
    Title
    Milonga del Angel (arr. B. Benitez for guitar)
    Duration
    05:31
    Composer
    Astor Piazzolla
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  22. 22 La Muerte del Ángel (arr. B. Benitez for guitar) 03:50
    Track
    22
    Title
    La Muerte del Ángel (arr. B. Benitez for guitar)
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    Astor Piazzolla
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd
  23. 23 Julia (arr. R. Boyd for guitar) 02:03
    Track
    23
    Title
    Julia (arr. R. Boyd for guitar)
    Duration
    02:03
    Composer
    John Lennon, Paul McCartney
    Performer
    Rupert Boyd