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George Gershwin |
The Baroque Guitar |
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| J.S. Bach, Gaspar Sanz, Mauro Guiliani, Miquel Llobet, George Gershwin and others played on archlute, Baroque guitar, 19th Century and modern guitars. | From the moment in 1916 when
he published his first song until his untimely death in 1937,
George Gershwin transformed and revolutionized American pop,
jazz, dance, rag, Broadway and classical music in more profound
ways than anyone has before or since. Here, virtuoso guitarist Jerry Willard plays 17 of his own brand-new arrangements for solo guitar of classic songs penned by the great George Gershwin. |
For master lutenist and guitarist Jerry Willard's third Lyrichord CD, he plays the seldom heard Baroque guitar, performing musical gems of the baroque era composed by four different masters: Gaspar Sanz, Santiago de Murcia, Johann Anton Logy and Ludovico Roncalli. The "Suite in A minor" by Johann Anton Logy, rarely heard on the Baroque guitar, is a transcription from the lute to the Baroque guitar by the composer himself. Topping off this recital, is Roncalli's "Passacaglia" - a piece made famous hundreds of years later in an orchestral arrangement by the Italian composer Ottorino Respighi in his "Ancient Dances and Airs for Lute Suites." |