Graham Anthony Devine's 2021 release British Guitar Music 2 follows on the first volume, which appeared in 2005; Devine is to be commended for keeping his eye on long-term projects. Nobody would pick British music as the primary representative of the guitar tradition, but the fact is that there is profoundly idiomatic music here, lovingly and beautifully rendered by Devine. Nicholas Maw's Music of Memory refers to both Mendelssohn and the English lute tradition and contains a variety of quite haunting extended technique ...
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Graham Anthony Devine's 2021 release British Guitar Music 2 follows on the first volume, which appeared in 2005; Devine is to be commended for keeping his eye on long-term projects. Nobody would pick British music as the primary representative of the guitar tradition, but the fact is that there is profoundly idiomatic music here, lovingly and beautifully rendered by Devine. Nicholas Maw's Music of Memory refers to both Mendelssohn and the English lute tradition and contains a variety of quite haunting extended technique passages. It is a substantial work, more than 20 minutes long, and really magisterial. The program opens with a guitar version of John Dowland's Mr. John Langton's Pavan, and indeed, Dowland seems to hang over the whole program. However, the tradition he represents is augmented by imported influences, principally Spanish, as in the finale of the excellent Guitar Sonatina of Cyril Scott. This is a work originally composed for Andrés Segovia but reworked by the late Julian Bream (a major...
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