EMR CD067 | DETAILS
  EMR CD067
   
 

COLLOQUY
   
  DUO GUITARTES
Anne-Kathrin Gerbeth (guit.)
Bernhard Dolch (guit.)
   
  EAN 5 060263 500636

EM Records is delighted to announce its first guitar disc with compositions which extend over five centuries.

 

The profound bond between plucked instruments and English music has existed since the Renaissance, especially with the outstanding lute music of John Dowland. This epoch is considered as the golden age of plucked instruments and has inspired English composers repeatedly thereafter through to the 20th century. For example, one of the most influential works written in the 20th century for the classical guitar, Benjamin Britten’s ‘Nocturnal after John Dowland’, was based upon ‘Come, Heavy Sleep’ from Dowland’s ‘First Book of Songs’ (1597).

 

As a tribute to the long-standing history of the guitar repertoire, the German guitar duo Duo Guitartes offers in this disc works by John Dowland, Peter Philips, John Johnson, Henry Purcell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Peter Maxwell Davies, Stephen Dodgson and Joseph Phibbs, a programme which was initially performed at the English Music Festival in May 2017. The majority of these works are new arrangements for guitar duo by Duo Guitartes. ‘Serenade’ (2014), composed by Joseph Phibbs and dedicated to the duo, also receives its World Première recording on this wide-ranging release.

TRACK LISTING AND AUDIO EXTRACTS
     
Henry Purcell (1659–1695) arr. Duo Guitartes
SUITE, Z.661
1. I. Prelude  
2. II. Almand  
3. III. Corant  
4. IV. Saraband  
       
Peter Philips (c.1521–1628) arr. Duo Guitartes
5. ‘PAUANA DOLOROSA TREGRIAN’  
       
John Dowland (1563–1626) arr. Duo Guitartes
6. ‘LACHRIMAE ANTIQUAE’  
7. ‘LACHRIMAE ANTIQUAE NOVAE’  
       
John Johnson (c.1540–1594) arr. Duo Guitartes
8. ‘THE FLATT PAVIN’  
9. ‘VARIATIONS OF GREENSLEEVES’  
       
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958)
10. ‘FANTASIA ON GREENSLEEVES’  
       
Joseph Phibbs (b.1974)
‘SERENADE’ (World Première recording)
11. I. Dialogue  
12. II. Corrente  
13. III. Liberamente  
       
Peter Maxwell Davies (1934–2016)
‘THREE SANDAY PLACES’
14. I. ‘Knowes o’ Yarrow’  
15. II. ‘Waters of Woo’  
16. III. ‘Kettletoft Pier’  
       
Stephen Dodgson (1924–2013)
17. ‘PROMENADE I’  

 

REVIEWS
Beautifully shaped by Benjamin Frith... Beguiling sounds, graced by the tawny richness and unexaggerated line of Richard Jenkinson’s cello playing... The sense of purpose and sureness of line of Ian Venables’ music is pure oxygen.
EMR CD31 | BBC MUSIC MAGAZINE
Exquisitely rewarding... Ravishing accounts.
EMR CD029 | CHOIR AND ORGAN
This is music of great beauty and integrity and the performances fully do it justice. It would be criminal to let it pass you by.

EMR CD028 | INTERNATIONAL
RECORD REVIEW

The Bridge Quartet approach these pieces with a sympathetic and insightful warmth, and confirm their ambassadorial credentials for British chamber music. A lovely, radiant disc.
EMR CD025 | Gramophone
Duncan Honeybourne’s playing is astonishingly affectionate, yet never saccharine... Honeybourne plays with suave confidence.
EMR CD024 | INTERNATIONAL PIANO
Rupert Marshall-Luck is an ideal interpreter: generously but not effusively lyrical; agile and athletic... The warm, folk-song like slow movement is at times almost painfully beautiful, with a shimmering pastoral central section... Marshall-Luck is, again, indefatigable and keenly picks up on the work’s melancholic strain.  Finely recorded and with comprehensive booklet notes, this is a must for fans of 20th-century English repertoire.
EMR CD023 | THE STRAD