Alexandra Whittingham - My European Journey (2021) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Over the last four years, guitarist Alexandra Whittingham has reached listeners worldwide, not only through concerts and competition successes but above all online, where her video performances of classical guitar repertoire have gained over 25 million YouTube views. Now she brings all of her freshness, charm, curiosity and determination to bear on her first studio album. Recorded in a year when the relationship between musicians and audiences has never been more topical, My European Journey is a testament to what the imagination can achieve in a time of unprecedented physical barriers.

In this heartfelt, enchanting exploration of the guitar’s great coming of age in nineteenth-century Europe, staple works by Napoléon Coste, Giulio Regondi and Luigi Legnani give a warm Romantic embrace to a clutch of lesser-known miniatures – brimming with character and local colour from Vienna, London, Copenhagen and beyond. All are given vivid new life here, by an artist for whom connecting with audiences is second nature.

"Scots-based Delphian label has a track record when it comes to talent-spotting guitarists … My European Journey reveals a player of sound ability and creative charisma … There’s a natty Humoreske by Scandinavian Frederik Rung, Frenchman Napoléon Coste’s fantasie dramatique Le Départ, and from Italian Luigi Legnani a showcase Fantasie brilliante e facile. By then, Whittingham is on fire" (The Scotsman)

Tracklist:
1. Capricho árabe (05:59)
2. Recuerdos de la Alhambra (04:00)
3. Brimborion, Op. 11: Romance sans paroles (04:45)
4. Elegie (08:50)
5. Forgotten: Impromptu (03:12)
6. Albumsblade No. 43: Humoreske (01:11)
7. Le Départ, Op. 31: Fantaisie dramatique (10:03)
8. Légende, Op. 201 (03:02)
9. The Gnomes, Op. 77 (02:00)
10. Fantasia brillante e facile, Op. 19 (11:22)
11. Introduction et Caprice, Op. 23 (11:19)


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