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Gerald Garcia - Vivaldi, J.S. Bach: Baroque Guitar Favourites (1993)

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Gerald Garcia - Vivaldi, J.S. Bach: Baroque Guitar Favourites (1993)

Gerald Garcia - Vivaldi, J.S. Bach: Baroque Guitar Favourites (1993)
XLD | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers Included | 01:15:23 | 356 MB
Genre: Classical | Label: Naxos | Catalog: 550274

Over the last 20 years, the Naxos label has done a great deal to obtain its reputation as one of the leading classical guitar labels. Its very first guitarist was Gerald Garcia, who was not slow to show the way forward by extending the rather limited guitar repertoire by making arrangements of pieces originally written for other instruments. This is what he has done here, too: None of the music on this disc was written for guitar, it is all arranged by Garcia himself, who plays a modern guitar and definitely not a baroque instrument. This rather makes the title of the disc a misnomer: no baroque guitar, no guitar music at all in the original, and certainly no guitar favourites as these arrangements were only made shortly before the disc was recorded! It would have been more to the point to entitle the whole: "Baroque Favourites arranged for Modern Guitar", but I suppose the marketing strategists wouldn't have liked that very much!
What we do get to hear here is some very pleasant, tuneful, harmonic baroque melodies in which the part of the main soloist (lute, violin, harpsichord) is replaced by Garcia's skilful and tasteful guitar-playing which is, in its turn, put very much in the forefront by the engineer. For the concertos, the necessary accompaniment is by the Camerata Cassovia, a chamber ensemble taken from members of the Slovak State Philharmonic of Kosice in Eastern Slovakia; the higher string parts sound quite acceptable, while I found the lower strings (the "basso continuo") to be rather dull and uninspired. For the Bach, this continuo includes a harpsichord, providing a sonic background that does not let the listener forget that it is an arrangement of a harpsichord concerto that he is listening to. The Vivaldi trio sonatas were originally for violin, lute and continuo, and they are here played with the guitar as a suitable replacement for the lute, but with a viola d'amore in place of the violin, a decision which not only subordinates the string playing to the guitar, but which also sounds quite pleasing. Unfortunately, the strictures on the basso continuo apply here, too: Pavol Gimcik, cello, and Maria Lickova, modern harpsichord, provide nothing more than the absolutely necessary accompanying chords, so that it is definitely better to concentrate on Gerald Garcia's delightful guitar playing.
This is definitely music that you can listen to for hours on end in the background. If you are not worried about historical authenticity and love the sound of the classical guitar, and if you are prepared to accept the rather lame continuo accompaniment, you will find this disc most enjoyable. Vivaldi's and Bach's music is so optimistic and so harmonically rich that it can bear any number of such arrangements.

Gerald Garcia - Vivaldi, J.S. Bach: Baroque Guitar Favourites (1993)

Track List:

ANTONIO VIVALDI (1678-1741)
Violin Concerto in E minor, RV 277, Op. 11 No. 2 "Il Favorito"
1. I. Allegro
2. II. Andante
3. III. Allegro

Trio Sonata in C major, RV 82
4. I. Allegro non molto
5. II. Larghetto. Lento
6. III. Allegro

Trio Sonata in G minor, RV 85
7. I. Andante molto
8. II. Larghetto
9. III. Allegro

Lute Concerto in D major, RV 93
10. I. Allegro giusto
11. II. Largo
12. III. Allegro

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Harpsichord Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052
13. I. Allegro
14. II. Adagio
15. III. Allegro

All arrangements by Gerald Garcia

Performers:
Gerald Garcia, guitar

Karol Petroczi, viola d'amore
Pavol Gimcik, cello
Maria Lickova, harpsichord (4 - 9)

Camerata Cassovia
Conductor: Peter Breiner

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Gerald Garcia, Camerata Cassovia, Peter Breiner / Baroque Guitar Favourites

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