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Segovia and His Contemporaries Volume 16 - The Guitar in Spain, Part 4 1928-1955 This disc highlights the classical guitar in orchestral, chamber, and duet settings. It opens with the live broadcast of the Castelnuovo-Tedesco Concerto No. 1, made on August 17, 1955 by Segovia at the Lucerne Festival. Chamber music is represented by two 1932 recordings made by Luise Walker, Miguel Llobet's student, of works by Carl Maria von Weber and Luigi Boccherini; and of particular interest are 1928 recordings by the world-renowned Cuarteto Aguilar,  comprised of four lauds (types of Spanish lute), of works by Joaquin Turina and Renaissance composers Gabriel Mena and William Croft. The Guitar in Duo appears in rare performances by four pairings the Canarian musicians Victor Doreste and Ignacio Rodriguez (1930), who perform Capricho Arabe,  Sevilla and a Folias Canarias; the Argentinean duo of Antonio Sinopoli and his daughter Nelida (1932), who play a milonga and vidalita penned by the father; the Mallorcan Bartolome Calatayud, a student of Tarrega, and the Catalan Graciano Tarrago (1936), who assay a popular Mallorcan dance So de pastera and Joan Maria Thomas' Festa de Sant Antoni; and lastly another Argentinean duo, Consuelo Mallo Lopez and Maria Herminia Antola (1937), who conclude with Mozart's 'Minueto de la Sinfonia No. 39' and Galluzzo's Romanza No. 2.

Darkness and Scattered Light presents celebrated Pulitzer- and Grammy-winning composer John Luther Adams's mesmerizing; elegant; virtuosic music for double bass-two solos and a work for five basses-written for and all performed by bassist extraordinaire Robert Black. InchThis is one of the most beautiful albums I have heard in years... It would be hard to imagine a better match of composer and performer than John Luther Adams and Robert Black.Inch(David Lang; Pulitzer-winning composer); John Luther Adams's music has been performed by such prominent ensembles as the New York Philharmonic; the Chicago Symphony; the Los Angeles Philharmonic; the Seattle Symphony; the and the JACK?Quartet. Cold Blue Music has released ten recordings of his work; including Houses of the Wind; Arctic Dreams; Lines Made by Walking; Everything That Rises; and The Wind in High Places. InchJohn Luther Adams... one of the most original musical thinkers of the new century.Inch (Alex Ross; The New Yorker) InchHis music... is an elemental experience.Inch (The Guardian). Robert Black tours the world collaborating with composers; musicians; and other artists. A founding member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars; his recent collaborations have been with Philip Glass; Eve Beglarian; and Joan Tower. InchNo one on the planet can make the double bass sing; dance; sound like a drum; spin like a top; like Robert Black. Robert has single-handedly reinvented the technique and repertoire of the Double Bass; bringing it bursting into the 21st century.Inch (Michael Gordon)

Suspended is Urbex's third album, but also the first live recording of this adventurous group formed five years ago. The repertory is written by Antoine Pierre (TaxiWars, Philip Catherine, Joshua Redman, Jacky Terrasson etc.), the sextet's leader, who has drawn his inspiration from the electronic period of Miles Davis, with the album Bi**hes Brew as it's inspiration. The recording was made in the outstanding acoustics of the famous Studio 4 at Flagey (Brussels) during the first public presentation of this new creation. The result is imbued with a powerful groove that leads, by way of an eruption of sound and energy, to a kind of trance. Since it's formation in 2015, Urbex has played in the most prestigious jazz venues and released two critically acclaimed albums that were awarded 'CHOC' in Jazz Magazine, 'Indispensable' in Jazz New, 'MUST TSF Jazz' and an Octave de la Musique in 2018.