Superb baroque music festival for the guitar

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	• Baroque Guitar Johann Sebastian Bach, Gaspar Sanz, ... RCA, 1991 average customer review:based on 17 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Bream does a superlative job

Bream was one of the best guitarists in the history of the instrument (was, since he retired a few years back). This may sound extreme, but nearly all his recordings bear witness to this. In addition to impeccable technique and musicianship, he shows a control of color and shading second to none. He is somewhat less romantic than Segovia, but his range of expression is just as varied. In some later recordings, Bream sounds as if he chooses beauty of sound at the expense of using slightly deliberate pacing, but in all earlier outings (like this one), he combines tonal beauty with perfectly chosen tempos (or tempi if you prefer), a great sense of enjoyment, even of fun when appropriate. Bream always reveals something remarkable in the music that goes beyond nearly all other players.

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Beautiful

Great listening when you want to relax or even when you're working. Anyone into classic guitar and of course, the wonderful period of Baroque music, I highly recommend this.

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Bream reigns Supreme

I have listned to this CD over and over since I purchased it several months ago. I must state that this is a great collection of guitar music that few others will be able to duplicate any time soon! Bream has been criticized for a technique that is some-what sloppy and values interpretaion over perfection. I do not hear that anywhere in this recording! Take for example the Bach fugue in A minor! This track is without a doubt the best classical guitar that I think I have ever heard. There are only a hand full of artists that will even acheive this level of performance skill.

This is a collection of guitar pieces form one of the greatest periods in Western music. A true "Must Have" for the lover of classical and guitar music!

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Superb baroque music festival for the guitar

I have most of these pieces on a book of Essential Classical Guitar, as I'm picking up the instrument again. This is not only an enlightnening CD, it's just great music, very well played. I can compare some of the pieces to other recordings in compilations, also very well played. But Julian Bream breathes, does not put the accent on virtuosity but more on musical phrasing, takes a slightly slower tempo sometimes (the lovely Bach prelude in d). I love playing it on my iPod in the background, it soothes me while I'm doing mechanical work. All the CD is worth it, esp. at this price. I would've paid full price for it. Unlike other reviewers, I'm not at all bothered by the recording quality, it's perfectly adequate; although there is no attempt to dissimulate the hiss due to shifting between positions, there isn't as much of it to disrupt listening, and the sound is otherwise rich and full with harmonies. In fact, the (very occasional) hissing enhances the "real" aspect of the recording so I don't mind. I hear them too when I play (although I'm not an advanced player by any means). The most dynamic pieces (Sanz' Canarios, Bach's Prelude and fugue, Weiss' Fantasy, Bach's suite allemande, bourree and gigue) alternate with more pensive, almost lethargic pieces by de Visee. Overall, this is a great CD that I put among the top five or six in my classical guitar collection. Also "Essential Guitar" compilation has some of these pieces and more romantic and 19th century pieces, if you want to compare. I also highly recommend that CD.

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Awesome

This is a CD that is not only unusual - Guitar but well worth having in your collection.

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Tracks
Pavanas for guitar | Canarios [I], for guitar (Instrucci?n de M?sica sobre la Guitarra Espa?ola, Book 1) | Work(s) | Work(s) | Fantasie and Minuet for guitar | Sonata for lute in D major (London MS No. 13), SC 18: Passacaille | Work(s) | Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pi?ces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Prelude | Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pi?ces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Allemande | Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pi?ces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Courante | Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pi?ces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Sarabande | Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pi?ces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Gavotte | Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pi?ces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Menuet 1 and 2 | Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pi?ces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Bourr?e | Suite for guitar No. 9 in D minor (Livre de Pi?ces pour la Guittarre, 1686): Gigue | Tombeau sur la mort de Monsieur Comte de Logy, for lute in B flat minor (London MS), Smith 210 | Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Passagio... Presto | Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Allemande | Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Courante | Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Sarabande | Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Bourree | Suite for lute in E minor, BWV 996 (BC L166): Gigue

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