Guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas has drawn crowds running into the tens of thousands in Spain and even in the U.S., where he has spent part of his career. Soul of Spanish Guitar is his debut solo album on Sony Classical, where he previously recorded an album with Plácido Domingo, and Sony seems to have taken to heart the various Segovia comparisons that have been floating around. On the evidence here, Sáinz-Villegas is indeed a highly compelling player. The program, on its surface, is the most conventional type of Spanish ...
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Guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas has drawn crowds running into the tens of thousands in Spain and even in the U.S., where he has spent part of his career. Soul of Spanish Guitar is his debut solo album on Sony Classical, where he previously recorded an album with Plácido Domingo, and Sony seems to have taken to heart the various Segovia comparisons that have been floating around. On the evidence here, Sáinz-Villegas is indeed a highly compelling player. The program, on its surface, is the most conventional type of Spanish guitar recital, and Sáinz-Villegas, in his notes, offers the usual sentiments about representing Spanish culture, but those who dig in and listen will find that Sáinz-Villegas has gone beyond the norm. His program has some hits of Spanish guitar, like Albéniz's Asturias (Leyenda), but most of it does not consist of obvious items. He inclines heavily toward Francisco Tárrega, perhaps the most "Spanish" of the first wave of guitar composers, and he offers music in an impressive variety of...
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