The euphoniously named Czar's Guitars bring to the Profil Edition Günter Hänssler label an entire branch of the guitar repertoire that, unless you are Russian, you probably would not know of, with Music of Mikhail Glinka. Glinka is best known as a composer of opera and as the father of Russian nationalism, and while he wrote no original works for the guitar, his close friend Vladimir Morkov -- not a Count, as it says in the notes -- was the most influential Russian guitarist of the nineteenth century. He favored, as most ...
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The euphoniously named Czar's Guitars bring to the Profil Edition Günter Hänssler label an entire branch of the guitar repertoire that, unless you are Russian, you probably would not know of, with Music of Mikhail Glinka. Glinka is best known as a composer of opera and as the father of Russian nationalism, and while he wrote no original works for the guitar, his close friend Vladimir Morkov -- not a Count, as it says in the notes -- was the most influential Russian guitarist of the nineteenth century. He favored, as most Russians of that day, the unique seven-string instruments that originated in Russia toward the end of the eighteenth century. These passed out of use after Andrés Segovia toured Russia in 1926 and the six-string, Spanish guitar became "king" there, too, but Czar's Guitars revive a pair of the seven-string instruments to realize these mostly nineteenth century arrangements of Glinka's operatic music, much of it arranged by Morkov himself.Czar's Guitars originated in America and consists...
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