Duilio Meucci - Smith Brindle: Complete Works for Solo Guitar, Vol. 3 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Reginald Smith Brindle served with the Royal Engineers in Africa and Italy during the Second World War, and later returned to Italy in 1949 to further his compositional studies with Pizzetti and Dallapiccola. The influence of Italian landscapes and culture can be found in many of Smith Brindle's works, including an extended combination of nostalgia and melancholy in November Memories dedicated to the poet Margherita Guidacci, and an evocation of the spirit of Gesualdo in The Prince of Venosa. The sheer variety of his guitar music is further represented in the expressive Preludes and Fantasias, the technical demands of the Île-de-France Variations, and the pedagogical but intriguingly atonal Ten Simple Preludes. Album Tracks 1. Serchio Prelude 2. Île-de-France Variations 3. November Memories 4. Ten Simple Preludes~No. 1. The Harmony of Peace 5. Ten Simple Preludes~No. 2. Counterpoints I 6. Ten Simple Preludes~No. 3. Calm Intervals 7. Ten Simple Preludes~No. 4. Counterpoints II 8. Ten Simple Preludes~No. 5. Canto 9. Ten Simple Preludes~No. 6. Corsa 10. Ten Simple Preludes~No. 7. Llanura 11. Ten Simple Preludes~No. 8. Little Barrés 12. Ten Simple Preludes~No. 9. Cantilena 13. Ten Simple Preludes~No. 10. Arpeggios 14. Romance de la pena negra 15. Preludes and Fantasias~Prelude No. 1 16. Preludes and Fantasias~Prelude No. 2 17. Preludes and Fantasias~Prelude No. 3 18. Preludes and Fantasias~Prelude No. 4 19. Preludes and Fantasias~Prelude No. 5 20. Preludes and Fantasias~Prelude No. 6 21. Preludes and Fantasias~Fantasia No. 1 22. Preludes and Fantasias~Fantasia No. 2 23. Prince of Venosa (Variazioni su un frammento di Gesualdo da Venosa)