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Baroque Music for Guitar

Albinoni (Composer), Scarlatti (Composer), Bach (Composer), Format: Audio CD
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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Package Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.55 x 4.97 x 0.54 inches; 2.88 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Universal Music & VI
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ February 11, 2007
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Universal Music & VI
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00000E3UC
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
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5.0 out of 5 stars Nice Baroque Music on Guitar
Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2013
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If you like baroque music and you like the sound of classical guitar, you'll enjoy these recordings. Being recorded back in the early 60s, the music might not be quite as pyrotechnical as some of today's recordings but the music and the playing are beautiful. Sergio Assad once noted that music for harpsichord can be difficult to transcribe for one guitar, but "on two guitars, everything is possible". Lagoya and Presti definitely deliver.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in the United States on November 22, 2015
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Fantastic performances.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The duo of the century
Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2011
Ida Presti and her husband Alexandre Lagoya formed what has been called the greatest duo in the history of the classical guitar. They were to the duo what Segovia was to the solo instrument: they innovated technically and musically and made something like fifteen world tours, inspiring nearly all the best modern composers to write for the medium, while at the same time generating an entire new body of transcriptions from instruments such as the harpsichord. They also inspired and taught several other duos who are now among the best in the World, including  Ako Ito & Henri Dorigny  and the Athenian Duo ( Evangelos & Liza ). Their fame and impact were still accelerating when, on a tour of the United States in 1967, Ida Presti was taken suddenly ill and died. She was forty-two.

The present album comprises all of the Baroque music from their  Complete Philips Recordings  3-CD set (minus the concertos with orchestra), as follows:

Scarlatti: Sonata, K. 173, L. 447
Giazotto "Albinoni": Adagio
Pasquini: Canzone in E Minor
Marcello: Andante in D Minor
Handel: Chaconne in G Major, HWV 442
Handel: Fugue in G Major, HWV 605
Handel: Allegro in D Minor
Scarlatti: Sonata, K. 380, L. 23
Bach: English Suite Nº 3, BWV 808 (excerpts)
Marella: Suite Nº 1 in A Major
Soler: Sonata in D Minor
Gallés: Sonata in B Minor
Soler: Sonata in D Major, R 84

The famous Adagio, long attributed to Albinoni, is now known to be by Giazotto.

The Presti/Lagoya recordings are some of the most brilliant classical guitar music ever put together. The range and beauty of the the duo's sound is ravishing, their musicality is a joy to hear, and their togetherness was unequalled until the advent of today's Assad brothers. It's hard to pick a highlight, but one such must certainly be the astonishing "Chaconne in G Major" by Handel, consisting of 22 variations on a ground bass with each variation played with a different tone colour.

The 3-CD Complete Recordings are unfortunately now deleted and thus hard to obtain. However, they are also subsumed in the 6-CD tribute,  L'Art de Alexandre Lagoya .

The total time of the present album is 73'36".
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5.0 out of 5 stars he loved it so I bought the CD
Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2014
When half Korean son heard this music when he was 5 (now 21), he loved it so I bought the CD. Over the years, whenever we hear it, we remember the times we first heard on holiday in Thailand. Wonderful memory.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2014
very good!
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Dr. Andreas Splett
5.0 out of 5 stars Referenzklasse
Reviewed in Germany on May 11, 2013
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Ida Presti und Alexandre Lagoya waren das klassische Gitarrenduo, an dem sich alle nachfolgenden messesn müssen - nur wenige halten dem Vergleich stand. Absolute Großmeister. Schön, dass man etwas von ihnen als CD/mp3 kaufen kann, die Suche nach alten Vinylplatten verläuft meist erfolglos.
Das Re-Masterning ist absolute Spitzenklasse.
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