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
«… a well-recorded and stunningly performed program of quite magical material…»
SUSANNE MEBES plays
MANUEL MARIA PONCE
GUITAR SOLO WORKS
«exquisite playing»
CLASSICAL GUITAR (UK)
SUSANNE MEBES plays
RECITAL CATALAN
GUITAR MUSIC FROM CATALONIA & VALENCIA
5 sur 5 Diapasons attribués
DIAPASON (France)
NICHOLAS DANIEL & JULIUS DRAKE
FINZI · PATTERSON · HOWELLS
«This is a most interesting and rewarding recital…»
JOAQUIM FREIRE plays
MARLOS NOBRE · VILLA-LOBOS
«Freire is splendid from the first étude to the last…»
FANFARE (USA)
SUSANNE MEBES & JOAQUIM FREIRE
FUGAS Y FANDANGOS
«Two of a kind … an interpretation in total unison, perfectly united in timbres.»
LUISTER (Benelux)
THE DANIEL TRIO
ROSSINI · WOOLRICH · DESTENAY
GARDNER · GILSON
«…this is ear candy of the nicest kind»
FANFARE (USA)
MARLOS NOBRE
ORCHESTRAL, VOCAL AND CHAMBER WORKS
«A fascinating portrait … recommended with Brazilian passion!»
AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE (USA)
THE STRING TRIO LIGETI
DOHNANYI · REGER · FRANÇAIX
FIRST PRIZE OSAKA INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC COMPETITION
(Japan)
SUSANNE MEBES & JOAQUIM FREIRE
ESPAÑA LA MUSA
«A world-class alliance»
CLASSICAL GUITAR
Leman Classics presents a timeless collection of some few, in every way outstanding programmes,
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We invite you to enjoy the richness of our instruments' timbres and all the nuances of our interpretations.
LÉMAN CLASSICS presents, for worldwide distribution, an unusual collection of rare and exquisite recordings,
often world premieres, in purest and most faithful sound quality.
Founded in 1989, this exclusive new label was a pioneer in truly integrating the performing artist into the whole
musical side of the creation of a classical CD, thus meeting the natural demands of a discerning public.
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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) (first recording)
HOLLIGER Studie über Mehrklänge (1971) • BERIO Sequenza VII (1969)
BERKELEY Snake (1990) for cor anglais (first recording)
CD: LC 42801
GUITAR SOLO WORKS • OEUVRES POUR GUITARE
Sonata clásica (Hommage à Fernando Sor) • Variations on a Theme of Cabezón) •
Gigue (Suite in A minor) • Two Preludes • Sonata III
• Sonatina meridional • Allegretto vivo (from Sonata romantica)
CD: LC 42701
GUITAR MUSIC FROM CATALONIA & VALENCIA
ISAAC ALBENIZ Capricho Catalan & Cataluña
MIGUEL LLOBET • Tres Canciones Populares Catalanas & Scherzo-Vals
FEDERICO MOMPOU • Cancion
VICENTE ASENCIO The Complete Works for Guitar (First complete recording):
Sonatina • Suite Mistica • Elegia • Dansa Valenciana (First recording) • Collectici Intim
CD: LC 44201
FINZI • PATTERSON • HOWELLS Three World Premiere Recordings
GERALD FINZI • Interlude
PAUL PATTERSON• Duologue
HERBERT HOWELLS • Oboe Sonata
CD: LC 44801
BRAZILIAN GUITAR RECITAL
MARLOS NOBRE • Reminicências (World Première Recording) • Homenagem a Villa-Lobos
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS • 12 Etudes
CD: LC 44601
Music for 2 guitars by CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO • GRANADOS • DE FALLA
MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO • Les Guitares Bien Temperées op.199 • Sonatina canonica op. 196
• Fuga Elegiaca
ENRIQUE GRANADOS • Intermedio • El Fandango del Candil (new transcriptions from ‘Goyescas’)
MANUEL DE FALLA • Première Danse Espagnole (from ‘La Vie Brève) • Danse de la Meunière (from ‘El Sombrero de tres picos’)
CD: LC 44401
play ROSSINI • WOOLRICH • DESTENAY • GARDNER • GILSON 6 World Premiere Recordings
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI• Le Barbier de Séville, ouverture
JOHN WOOLRICH • Favola in Musica (after Monteverdi)
EDUARD LOUIS BERNARD DESTENAY • Trio en si mineur op. 27
JOHN LINTON GARDNER (after Jerry Bock) • Sunrise, Sunset • Ecossaises
PAUL GILSON • Trio en sol mineur
CD: LC 44301
In Memoriam • Mosaico • Convergências • Biosfera • O Canto Multiplicado • Ukrinmakrinkrin
• Rhythmetron • Divertimento • Concerto Breve • Variações Ritmicas • Sonâncias I & III
Marlos Nobre conductor & piano • Maria Lucia Godoy & Amália Bazán sopranos • Musica Nova
Philharmonia • Musica Nova Ensemble
Luiz de Moura Castro piano • Ensemble à percussion de Genève
Ensemble Bartok
2 CD-SET: LC44100
play DOHNANYI • REGER • FRANÇAIX
ERNST VON DOHNANYI • Serenade op.10 for string trio
MAX REGER • Trio in A minor op. 77b
JEAN FRANÇAIX • Trio à cordes
CD: LC 44901
play ESPAÑA LA MUSA Music for two guitars
DOMENICO SCARLATTI 8 Sonatas*: K. 466 • K. 386 • K. 54 • K.184 • K. 39 • K. 27
GIOACCHINO ROSSINI - M. GIULIANI* Ouverture ‘Il Barbiere de Sevilla’
ENRIQUE GRANADOS 2 Danzas Españolas: Zambra** • Valenciana*
ISAAC ALBÉNIZ Aragon* • Castilla**
*transcriptions: S.Mebes/J.Freire
**transcription: M. Llobet
CD: LC 4125-401
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
Photo Susanne Mebes © Léman Classics
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
«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
«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
«…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
FIRST PRIZE OSAKA
INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER
MUSIC COMPETITION
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
IGOR KELLER VIOLIN
SILVIA SIMIONESCU VIOLA
DIANA LIGETI CELLO
Photograph The Trio Ligeti by David Kocher
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