Essential Guitar Album

From the electric passion of flamenco to the haunting Cavatina from The Deer Hunter, the guitar touches us in a way no other instrument can. This double album of classic guitar music, both original compositions and arrangements by some of the world's finest guitar virtuosi, reveals the many sides of the guitar's personality. Supremely elegant or steamily sensual, flamboyantly virtuosic or eloquently lyrical, The Essential Guitar is essential listening.

Track Listing CD 1:

• VIVALDI Guitar Concerto in D major, RV93: I. Allegro
• SCHUMANN Scenes from Childhood: Träumerei (Reverie)
• BACH Fugue à 4
• GRANADOS Songs of Youth: Dedicatoria
• PUJOL Verde Alma (Innocent Soul)
• TRAD. CELTIC Skye Boat Song
• BIZET Carmen: Seguidilla
• DYENS Tango en Skaï
• TÁRREGA Arabian Caprice
• PAGANINI Caprice in A minor: Theme – Variations I - XI – Finale
• GRANADOS La Maja de Goya
• ALBÉNIZ Iberia: Triana
• GRANADOS Suite Española: Sevilla 'Sevillanas'
• ALBÉNIZ Asturias (Leyenda)
• HANDEL The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
• WEISSPrelude in D minor
• ANON. Le Rossignol (The Nightingale)
• SATIE Gymnopédie No. 1
• WESTLAKE Flying Fish
• PLANT/PAGE Stairway to Heaven

CD 2:

• PACHELBEL Canon in D
• TRAD. ENGLISH Greensleeves
• BACH Cello Sonata No. 1: Prelude
• VIVALDI Concerto in G major for Two Guitars: II. Andante
• MASCAGNI Cavalleria rusticana: Intermezzo
• MYERS The Deer Hunter: Cavatina
• WESTLAKE Antarctica: II. Wooden Ships
• DEBUSSY Clair de lune
• ALBÉNIZ España: Tango
• FALLA The Three-Cornered Hat: Dance of the Miller (Farruca)
• FALLA Four Spanish Pieces: I. Aragonesa
• MORLEY Now is the Month of Maying
• SCARLATTI Sonata K208 (Andante e cantabile)
• TRAD. IRISH The Sally Gardens
• SOR L'Encouragement: I. Cantabile
• MILHAUD Scaramouche: III. Brasileira
• MANGORÉ Julia Florida
• GRANADOS 12 Danzas Españolas: VI. Rondalla aragonesa
• RODRIGO Concierto de Aranjuez: II. Adagio
• KOCH Rumba Flamenca

Released 2009

Released: 2009-06-05T00:00:00