Raphaël Feuillâtre - Guitar Recital: Raphaël Feuillâtre (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

There are two aspects underlying this recording by Raphaël Feuillâtre, First Prize winner at the prestigious Guitar Foundation of America Competition in 2018: original works for the guitar and transcriptions. Among the former is Villa-Lobos’s Prélude no.5, part of one of the most evocative and Romantic guitar cycles of the 20th century, the Chopinesque brilliance of the inventive Valse by Barrios Mangoré, and the compendium of virtuosity that is Llobet’s Variations on a Theme of Sor. The transcriptions range from Rameau, through Rachmaninov’s pianistic showcase, the Prélude in G minor, op.23 no.5, to the superbly evocative Alfonsina y el mar by Ariel Ramírez.