Art of Segovia

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Artist: Andres Segovia
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Category: Music

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Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars

17 reviews
Sales Rank: 2185

Format: Original recording remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 471697
UPC: 028947169727
EAN: 0028947169727
ASIN: B00006B66L

Release Date: October 8, 2002
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Tracks:

Disc 1

•	Andante
•	Andantino
•	Lento
•	Romance De Los Pinos
•	Madronos
•	Serenata Burlesca
•	Variations On A Theme From Mozart's 'The Magic Flute'
•	Mesto E Calmo
•	Theme, Variations & Finale
•	Cancion Mexicana No.X
•	Sevillana, Op.29
•	Sarabanda
•	Capriccio Diabolico, Op.85
•	Tonadilla For Guitar On The Name Of Andres Segovia
•	No.1 In E Minor
•	No.3 In A Minor
•	Guitarreo
•	Segovia, Op.29

Disc 2

•	If My Complaints
•	Now, O Now I Need Must Part
•	Sarabande
•	1. Prelude (Transposed In D Major)
•	4. Tempo Di Bourree
•	Courante
•	3. Gavotte En Rondeau
•	Aria E Corrente
•	Moderato
•	Menuet In G Major
•	Andantino Variato
•	No.7 In A Major
•	2. Canzonetta
•	2. Quasi Lento (Preludio)
•	1. Andantino Poco Allegretto (Allegretto)
•	2. Il Vecchio Castello
•	Allegretto
•	Tres Calme Et Doucement Expressif
•	No.4 In E Flat Minor
•	5. Asturias. Leyenda - Preludio
•	7. Zambra Granadina
•	Estudio Sin Luz
•	Allegro Con Brio

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Featuring very little overlap with the four-CD box set The Segovia Collection, this two-disc set collection of popular guitar works features almost 20 minutes of music never before heard on compact disc.
Genre: Classical Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
Rating:
Release Date: 8-OCT-2002

DG has put together a fascinating compilation of Segovia's art that reminds us what a protean figure he was. Segovia single-handedly put the instrument on the map by making classical guitar concerts popular events, broadening the instrument's repertory through commissions and transcriptions, and convincing even doubters that it could be a vehicle for serious music. He's heard here in brief pieces recorded between 1952 and 1969. Even in those made when he was well into his 70s, his fingers remain nimble and interpretations lively. Listening straight through, one hears many all-time Segovia favorites as Turina's Sevillana and Albeniz's Asturias and Zambra Granadina and renews appreciation for path-breaking composers like Castelnuovo-Tedesco. He wrote extensively for Segovia and his Capriccio diabolico and Tonadilla are pieces of real substance. Disc two is largely made up transcriptions and it's amazing how well so many of them work on the guitar, at least under Segovia's magic fingers. Thus the transformations of Bach's violin music and even a Chopin Prelude sound idiomatic, and the gorgeous melodies of the Canzonetta from Mendelssohn's Op. 12 String Quartet are irresistible here. An entrancing set. --Dan Davis

Customer Reviews:

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Great Classical/Spanish Guitarist March 3, 2010
J. E. Sherman (Los Angeles, CA USA)
As a guitarist, I love Segovia's performances on this CD. All that enjoy music will find pleasure in this CD.

4 out of 5 stars

The Art of Segovia July 14, 2009
Connie
Listening to Andres Segovia again some 50 years after my first opportunity to hear him has been delightful. I have been surprised at the fine sound of the remastered recordings! I hope that some of the other outstanding recordings of decades gone by will be remastered as well!

5 out of 5 stars

What can anyone say about Segovia ........ May 14, 2009
Ahmed F. Hosny (Ottawa, Ontario Canada)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful

......... that hasn't already been said a million times over? He's the best that ever was.

3 out of 5 stars

Good music, terrible recording quaility January 8, 2009
T. Brown
5 out of 7 found this review helpful

I would rate the actual music as five stars and the recording quality as only one star. There is so much hiss and buzzing, that some of the quieter parts of the songs are actually drowned out by the loud hiss and buzzing. It is so distracting for me. I love the music, but I wish that I had not bought this CD. I know that the technology when it was recorded was not the same as today's standards, but I cant believe that the recording is so bad... and its on every song, although some are worse than others. I even put in another CD to make sure that it was not something wrong with my audio system. Its too bad because the guitar playing is beautiful.

5 out of 5 stars

Segovia is the master November 3, 2008
S. Iverson (Southern California)
This is an excellent CD to introduce yourself to Segovia or to have a nice collection of many of his better works. The Guitar is well recorded given the era in which it was recorded.

Highly recommended!

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