SUSANNE MEBES plays MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
GUITAR SOLO WORKS · OEUVRES POUR GUITARE
Tarantella · Variazioni attraverso i secoli · Capricho de Goya · Platero y Yo · Sonata op. 77 · Capriccio Diabolico op. 85
CD: LC 42501
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SUSANNE MEBES plays
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
GUITAR SOLO WORKS
«Sheer joy»
GUITAR International (UK)
JOAQUIM FREIRE plays
LATIN AMERICAN GUITAR RECITAL
PONCE · VILLA-LOBOS · GINASTERA
«Superbly recorded»
GRAMOPHONE
NICHOLAS DANIEL plays
OBOE ALONE · HAUTBOIS SEUL
«Hauntingly beautiful»
FANFARE
JOAQUIM FREIRE plays
MARLOS NOBRE · VILLA-LOBOS
«A fascinating portrait»
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
SUSANNE MEBES & JOAQUIM FREIRE
FUGAS Y FANDANGOS
«A world-class alliance»
CLASSICAL GUITAR (UK)
NICHOLAS DANIEL & JULIUS DRAKE
FINZI · PATTERSON · HOWELLS
«Some of the best oboe playing»
BBC RECORD REVIEW
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GUITAR SOLO WORKS · OEUVRES POUR GUITARE
Tarantella · Variazioni attraverso i secoli · Capricho de Goya · Platero y Yo · Sonata op. 77 · Capriccio Diabolico op. 85
CD: LC 42501
MANUEL M. PONCE · Variations sur «Folía d'España» et Fugue
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS · Five Preludes · ALBERTO GINASTERA · Sonata op. 47
CD: LC 42601
TELEMANN 5 Fantasien · WAGNER Solo from Tristan (for cor anglais)
TOMASI Evocations · READE Aspects of a Landscape (1981) · HOLLIGER Studie über Mehrklänge (1971) · BERIO Sequenza VII (1969) · BERKELEY Snake (1990) for cor anglais
CD: LC 42801
WORKS FOR TWO GUITARS · OEUVRES POUR DEUX GUITARES
Scarlatti · Soler · Albéniz · Granados · de Falla — «Two of a kind, in perfect unison» (Luister)
CD: LC 44401
BRAZILIAN GUITAR MASTERWORKS
MARLOS NOBRE · Momentos · Reminiscências · HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS · Études & Preludes
CD: LC 44601
FINZI · PATTERSON · HOWELLS — WORKS FOR OBOE & PIANO
«Some of the best oboe playing you'll hear anywhere» (BBC Record Review) · «A formidable virtuoso» (The Guardian)
CD: LC 44801
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE«… Mebes is testimony to a new generation of playing that is reclaiming the guitar's soul. She is not only the best female guitarist playing today; she is one of the greatest guitarists to be heard — period.»
THE TIMES London«Susanne Mebes held her audience captive with an exceptionally intimate and delicate kind of lyrical expression … On romantic soil with Albéniz and Barrios, her finely tapered, yielding phrasing drew out all the music's poetry, while Frank Martin and Rodrigo allowed her to reveal a still more arresting as well as sensitively terraced range of colour. In short, a true artist.»
ABOUT THE ARTIST
GUITAR
GRAMOPHONE«… Freire's performance of this work (Ginastera) wins the gold… superbly recorded…»
STEREO REVIEW«Exquisite performances of a cornerstone of modern guitar music… Joaquim Freire is an immensely talented Brazilian guitarist who makes the difficult sound easy and then moves on to make music.»
ABOUT THE ARTIST
GUITAR
«Some of the best oboe playing you'll hear anywhere»
BBC RECORD REVIEW
«Breathtaking»
FINANCIAL TIMES
«Hauntingly beautiful»
FANFARE (USA)
«A formidable virtuoso»
THE GUARDIAN
«Daniel is past praise in his virtuosity and eloquence»
GRAMOPHONE (UK)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
OBOE
Photo Nicholas Daniel © Eric Richmond
«the pianist Julius Drake, a collaborator gifted with sensitive phrasing and insight»
THE NEW YORK TIMES · Joshua Barone
ABOUT THE ARTIST
PIANIST
Photo Julius Drake © Marco Borggreve
1939 – 2024
«A fascinating portrait … serious art music but with an unabashed nod to the composer's Brazilian folk roots»
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE (USA)
ABOUT THE ARTIST
COMPOSER, CONDUCTOR & PIANIST
«Mebes and Freire: Two of a kind … an interpretation in total unison, perfectly united in timbres.» LUISTER (Benelux)
CANNES CLASSICAL AWARD WINNER
«A world-class alliance»
CLASSICAL GUITAR (UK)
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
GUITARS
FIRST PRIZE OSAKA
INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER
MUSIC COMPETITION
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
IGOR KELLER VIOLIN
SILVIA SIMIONESCU VIOLA
DIANA LIGETI CELLO
«…this is ear candy of the nicest kind»
FANFARE (USA)
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
NICHOLAS DANIEL OBOE
JOY FARRALL CLARINET
JULIUS DRAKE PIANO
Photo Nicholas Daniel © Eric Richmond
Photo Julius Drake © Marco Borggreve
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