Michele Di Filippo - Harris- Complete Works for Guitar (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Albert Harris (1916-2005) was an English musician who worked in Hollywood for most of his life as an orchestrator, arranger and composer for several of the big film Studios and for such pop icons as Barbra Streisand, Roberta Flack and Cher. He was born in London and studied piano from age 6, becoming also a self-taught guitarist. His knowledge of the guitar enabled him in later years to compose pieces specifically for it (his Variations & Fugue on a Theme by Handel was recorded by Andres Segovia). In the mid-1930s he began to make a name for himself as a session musician in London where he featured on many recordings, most notably as session guitarist with the Lew Stone band, his delicate but swinging improvisations enhancing many of Stone's records during 1934/35. Harris came to New York in 1938 and started playing piano in big bands across the US then began studying at the NYU College of Music, where he earned a doctorate in 1944. He finished the PhD remotely, having moved to Los Angeles in 1942, where he studied composition with Mary Carr Moore and Eugen Zador and conducting with Richard Lert. He served as professor of orchestration at UCLA and was Assistant Musical Director for broadcaster NBC from 1946 to 1949.

TRACKLIST

1. Michele Di Filippo - Sonatina: I Allegro Moderato
2. Michele Di Filippo - Sonatina: II Aria
3. Michele Di Filippo - Sonatina: III Rondo
4. Michele Di Filippo - Suite: I. Prologue
5. Michele Di Filippo - Suite: II. Pastorale
6. Michele Di Filippo - Suite: III. Song Without Words
7. Michele Di Filippo - Suite: IV. March
8. Michele Di Filippo - Suite: V. Waltz
9. Michele Di Filippo - Suite: VI. Ariette Triste
10. Michele Di Filippo - Suite: VII. Finale and Epilogue
11. Michele Di Filippo - Hommage to Unamuno
12. Michele Di Filippo - Intermezzo
13. Michele Di Filippo - Variations and Fugue on Haendel's Theme: I. Theme
14. Michele Di Filippo - Variations and Fugue on Haendel's Theme: II. Variation I
15. Michele Di Filippo - Variations and Fugue on Haendel's Theme: III. Variation II
16. Michele Di Filippo - Variations and Fugue on Haendel's Theme: IV. Variation III
17. Michele Di Filippo - Variations and Fugue on Haendel's Theme: V. Variation IV
18. Michele Di Filippo - Variations and Fugue on Haendel's Theme: VI. Variation V
19. Michele Di Filippo - Variations and Fugue on Haendel's Theme: VII. Variation VI
20. Michele Di Filippo - Variations and Fugue on Haendel's Theme: VIII. Variation VII, Fugue
21. Michele Di Filippo - 3 Fantastic Dances: I.
22. Michele Di Filippo - 3 Fantastic Dances: II.
23. Michele Di Filippo - 3 Fantastic Dances: III.



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