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Title: Duarte: Complete Works for Guitar Quartet
Artist: Quartetto Santorsola
Label: Brilliant Classics
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 5028421964430
Genre: Classical Artists
Release Date: 2024-08-02
Number of Discs: 2

John W. Duarte was not only one of themost prolific composers for the soloclassic guitar in the 20th century; he wasalso concerned with the instrument in anensemble context. He made a lastingcontribution to the concept and musicalchemistry of the guitar quartet, a muchneglected feature until his innovations.This area of his creative work provedsomething of a goldmine for bothprofessional quartets and educationalsettings where the guitar was taught as aserious instrument, worthy of deep study,and indeed for Summer Schoolsworldwide. In this the composer offeredarrangements and original works of tasteand delicacy, a hitherto unprecedenteddevelopment in the expanding repertoireof the guitar.This fourth instalment in Brilliant Classics'series dedicated to the vast and preciousguitar oeuvre of John W. Duarte provides acomplete survey of the composer's music forfour guitars. This sub-set of his guitar music isin itself greatly varied in style but ofconsistently superb quality. Disc one containsmusic he originally composed for thisensemble, and disc two features hisarrangements (many of them of his owncompositions) for guitar quartet.Duarte explained that his own stylisticeclecticism derived from improvisation, withcomposition being a slower form ofimprovisation benefitting from time toreconsider and to refine the product: 'Whatone hears becomes translatable into "playback" action and/or, given a knowledge ofmusical theory, comprehensible. It canprovide a direct route to eclecticism - onemay adopt what one chooses into one's ownbloodstream and bypass what one feelsforeign to one's own nature. For this reason Ihave never had one immediately identifiablestyle and have happily lived with a widevariety of idioms.'

Tracks:
1.1 Concerto Democratico Op. 108~I. Ritmico
1.2 Concerto Democratico Op. 108~II. Adagio
1.3 Concerto Democratico Op. 108~III. Con brio
1.4 Ballade Op. 53
1.5 Diptych No. 1 Op. 80~I. Aria
1.6 Diptych No. 1 Op. 80~II. Toccata
1.7 Tentos I Op. 63~I. Sostenuto
1.8 Tentos I Op. 63~II. Calmo
1.9 Tentos I Op. 63~III. –
1.10 Going Dutch Op. 36~I. Windmill
1.11 Going Dutch Op. 36~II. Pastorale
1.12 Going Dutch Op. 36~III. March
1.13 Going Dutch Op. 36~IV. Carillon
1.14 Going Dutch Op. 36~V. Dutch Dance
1.15 Little Suite No. 1 Op. 68~I. Anglaise
1.16 Little Suite No. 1 Op. 68~II. Sarabande
1.17 Little Suite No. 1 Op. 68~III. Bourrée
1.18 Little Suite No. 1 Op. 68~IV. Gigue
1.19 English Suite No. 3 Op. 78~I. Rufty Tufty
1.20 English Suite No. 3 Op. 78~II. The Crystal Spring
1.21 English Suite No. 3 Op. 78~III. The Black Nag
2.1 Sonatina di Primavera Op. 27a~I. Allegretto molto lirico ma facile
2.2 Sonatina di Primavera Op. 27a~II. Espressivo
2.3 Sonatina di Primavera Op. 27a~III. Vivo
2.4 Americana Op. 96a~I. Broadway
2.5 Americana Op. 96a~II. Work song ; Blues
2.6 Americana Op. 96a~III. Hoe-Down
2.7 Moraviana No. 2 Op. 146~I. Kdo si tu pesnicku zazpívá (Who is singing the song?)
2.8 Moraviana No. 2 Op. 146~II. Ach, bože moj (Oh, my God)
2.9 Moraviana No. 2 Op. 146~III. Co sa to šupóce (Polka antojadizo) (What is happening behind the barn?)
2.10 Three pieces from Album for the Young Op. 39~A Winter Morning
2.11 Three pieces from Album for the Young Op. 39~The New Doll
2.12 Three pieces from Album for the Young Op. 39~The Old Wife’s Tale
2.13 Four pieces from Album for the Young Op. 39~March of the wooden soldiers
2.14 Four pieces from Album for the Young Op. 39~In Church
2.15 Four pieces from Album for the Young Op. 39~Dolly is Ill
2.16 Four pieces from Album for the Young Op. 39~The Hobby-Horse
2.17 Hassan~Serenade
2.18 Four French Dances~I. Courante
2.19 Four French Dances~II. Ballet
2.20 Four French Dances~III. Galliarde
2.21 Four French Dances~IV. Galliarde
2.22 Four Elizabethan Pieces~La shy myze
2.23 Four Elizabethan Pieces~When griping griefs
2.24 Four Elizabethan Pieces~Coranto
2.25 Four Elizabethan Pieces~La doune cella
2.26 Four pieces from The Mulliner Book~My friends
2.27 Four pieces from The Mulliner Book~O, the syllye man
2.28 Four pieces from The Mulliner Book~I Smyle to see howe you devyse
2.29 Four pieces from The Mulliner Book~Ffonde youthe is a bubble
2.30 Four French Renaissance Works~Au joli bois (Gaillarde)
2.31 Four French Renaissance Works~Premier Bransle de la guerre
2.32 Four French Renaissance Works~Almande
2.33 Four French Renaissance Works~Allemande Courrante
2.34 Three French Renaissance Works~Amour me voyant
2.35 Three French Renaissance Works~De vous servir
2.36 Three French Renaissance Works~Trois jeunes Bourgeoises
2.37 Tack för Allt (Thanks for everything)~Allas ögon vänta på dig, Herre
2.38 Tack för Allt (Thanks for everything)~Downe a Downe
2.39 Tack för Allt (Thanks for everything)~Chorale (Dir, dir Jehovah will ich singen), BWV 299
2.40 Tack för Allt (Thanks for everything)~J.W. Duarte: 3444
2.41 Tack för Allt (Thanks for everything)~From Hesse, Germany. Tack Gud att Brödet
2.42 Two English Traditional Songs~I. Sing Ivy
2.43 Two English Traditional Songs~II. The Scolding Wife