Duets with Spanish Guitar
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Duets with Spanish Guitar is an album by the Brazilian guitarist
Laurindo Almeida
, with the singer
Salli Terri
and the flautist
Martin Ruderman. It was originally released by Capitol Records
in 1958.
The recording has often been described as a masterpiece and won an award for Best Engineered Classical Album
at the 1959 Grammy Awards for the recording engineer, Sherwood Hall III. The singer Salli Terri was also nominated for Best Classical Vocal Performance at the awards. Upon hearing her version of "Bachianas Brasilieras No 5" on the album, the composer Heitor Villa-Lobos stated that he considered it to be the best recorded performance of the work.
The album received extensive radio airplay and has sold consistently ever since it was released. Having originally been titled Duets with the Spanish Guitar, the current CD was released in 1990 and includes 6 bonus tracks from subsequent recordings. The Allmusic review awards the album with 3 stars.
Classical guitar
The classical guitar is a 6-stringed plucked string instrument from the family of instruments called chordophones...
Laurindo Almeida
Laurindo Almeida
Laurindo Almeida was a Brazilian virtuoso guitaristand composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres...
, with the singer
Mezzo-soprano
A mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above...
Salli Terri
Salli Terri
Salli C. Terri was a singer, arranger, recording artist, and songwriter.-Biography:...
and the flautist
Flautist
A flautist or flutist is a musician who plays an instrument in the flute family. See List of flautists.The choice of "flautist" versus "flutist" is the source of dispute among players of the instrument...
Martin Ruderman. It was originally released by Capitol Records
Capitol Records
Capitol Records is a major United States based record label, formerly located in Los Angeles, but operating in New York City as part of Capitol Music Group. Its former headquarters building, the Capitol Tower, is a major landmark near the corner of Hollywood and Vine...
in 1958.
The recording has often been described as a masterpiece and won an award for Best Engineered Classical Album
Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Classical
The Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Engineered Record ...
at the 1959 Grammy Awards for the recording engineer, Sherwood Hall III. The singer Salli Terri was also nominated for Best Classical Vocal Performance at the awards. Upon hearing her version of "Bachianas Brasilieras No 5" on the album, the composer Heitor Villa-Lobos stated that he considered it to be the best recorded performance of the work.
The album received extensive radio airplay and has sold consistently ever since it was released. Having originally been titled Duets with the Spanish Guitar, the current CD was released in 1990 and includes 6 bonus tracks from subsequent recordings. The Allmusic review awards the album with 3 stars.
Track listing
- "Entr'acte" (Jacques IbertJacques IbertJacques François Antoine Ibert was a French composer. Having studied music from an early age, he studied at the Paris Conservatoire and won its top prize, the Prix de Rome at his first attempt, despite studies interrupted by his service in World War I.Ibert pursued a successful composing career,...
) — 3:12 - "Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5Bachianas BrasileirasThe Bachianas Brasileiras constitute a series of nine suites by the Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, written for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945...
" (Heitor Villa-LobosHeitor Villa-LobosHeitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...
) — 2:24 - "Ronde" (Emile DesportesEmile DesportesEmile Desportes was a French composer, painter, inventor and explorer.He studied composition with Paul Dukas, but soon became more interested in other activities. After the Second World War, Desportes became rich from his inventions. He also painted, in a style influenced by Henri Rousseau, and...
) — 2:01 - "Azulao" (Jayme Ovalle) — 1:28
- "Prelude in E Minor" (Frédéric ChopinFrédéric ChopinFrédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....
) — 2:13 - "O Cacador" (Laurindo AlmeidaLaurindo AlmeidaLaurindo Almeida was a Brazilian virtuoso guitaristand composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres...
) — 1:47 - "Pastorale Joyeuse" (Desportes) — 2:36
- "Tres Pontos de Santo" (Ovalle) — 4:06
- "Tambourin" (François-Joseph Gossec) — 1:26
- "Boi-Bumbá" (Valdemar Henrique) — 1:35
- "Sicilienne" (Gabriel FauréGabriel FauréGabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...
) — 4:00 - "Para Niñar" (Paurillo Barroso) — 2:20
- "Pièce en Forme de Habanera" (Maurice RavelMaurice RavelJoseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...
) — 2:45 - "Maracatu" (Ernani Braga) — 3:33
- "Pavane pour une infante défuntePavane pour une infante défuntePavane pour une infante défunte is a well-known piece written for solo piano by the French composer Maurice Ravel in 1899 when he was studying composition at the Conservatoire de Paris under Gabriel Fauré. Ravel also published an orchestrated version of the Pavane in 1910...
" (Ravel) — [Bonus Track] 3:53 - "Passarinho Está Cantando" (Francisco MignoneFrancisco MignoneFrancisco Paulo Mignone is one of the most significant figures in Brazilian classical music, and one of the most significant Brazilian composers after Heitor Villa-Lobos...
) — [Bonus Track] 1:23 - "Modinha" (Bandeiro, Ovalle) — [Bonus Track] 2:20
- "Waltz from the Serenade for Strings" (Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky) — [Bonus Track] 2:53
- "Canción from Siete Canciones Populares Españolas" (Manuel de FallaManuel de FallaManuel de Falla y Matheu was a Spanish Andalusian composer of classical music. With Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados and Joaquín Turina he is one of Spain's most important musicians of the first half of the 20th century....
) — [Bonus Track] 1:24 - "Farrúca" (De Falla) — [Bonus Track] 2:38
- Engineered by Sherwood Hall IIIGrammy Award for Best Engineered Album, ClassicalThe Grammy Award for Best Engineered Recording, Classical has been awarded since 1959. The award had several minor name changes:*In 1959 the award was known as Best Engineered Record ...
- Produced by Robert E MyersRobert E. Myers (record producer)Robert E Myers aka Bob Myers was an American classical music record producer and artists & repertoire specialist. Myers spent most of his career at Capitol Records and the classical music division of its EMI parent company, Angel Records. During his early years with Capitol Records, Myers...
Personnel
- Laurindo AlmeidaLaurindo AlmeidaLaurindo Almeida was a Brazilian virtuoso guitaristand composer who made many recordings of enduring impact in classical, jazz and Latin genres...
- guitar - Salli TerriSalli TerriSalli C. Terri was a singer, arranger, recording artist, and songwriter.-Biography:...
- mezzo-sopranoMezzo-sopranoA mezzo-soprano is a type of classical female singing voice whose range lies between the soprano and the contralto singing voices, usually extending from the A below middle C to the A two octaves above... - Martin Ruderman - flute