John Williams Spanish Guitar Music

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John Williams Spanish Guitar Music
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Artist: John Williams
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1991-04-05
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
  1. No. 5, Asturias
  2. Tango
  3. Canarios
  4. No. 1 Fandango
  5. Nocturno for guitar in A minor
  6. El Colibri for guitar ("The Hummingbird")
  7. Sonata for piano in D major, Op.13
  8. Dance of the Corregidor
  9. Fisherman's Song
  10. Miller's Dance "Farruca"
  11. Madroños for guitar
  12. La Nit de Nadal
  13. El Noy de la Mare
  14. Asturias
  15. La Maja de Goya
  16. Fantasia que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Luduvico
  17. No. 4, Cordoba
  18. Recuerdos de la Alhambra, for guitar
  19. Andaluza (Playera), for guitar or other instrument (arrangement of No.
  20. El testament d'Amelia
  21. Prelude No. 4 in e
  22. Homenaje pour "Le tombeau de Claude Debussy," for guitar, G. 56
  23. Fandanguillo, for guitar, Op. 36

Free Music Notes for John Williams Spanish Guitar Music

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All of the music on this disc was recorded for Columbia Records between 1964 and 1970 for release on four different LP albums. These are those albums (and I've had them all for 35 years):

COLUMBIA RECORDS PRESENTS JOHN WILLIAMS (1964)
VIRTUOSO MUSIC FOR GUITAR (1965)
MORE VIRTUOSO MUSIC FOR GUITAR (1967)
JOHN WILLIAMS PLAYS SPANISH MUSIC (1970)

Fourteen of the first fifteen tracks here are from the 1970 LP and are presented in their original sequence. Track 6, "El Colibri" by Segreras, is not from that LP. It here replaces the proper sixth LP track, "Valses Poeticos" by Granados, which strangely has been omitted from this collection entirely. Otherwise, the album, certainly one of Williams's greatest, would have been complete on this disc.

What follows is a complete list of the Spanish and Latin American pieces included on the three earlier LPs and in the original sequences (* signifies omission from this collection):

COLUMBIA RECORDS PRESENTS JOHN WILLIAMS
"Sevilla"
"Recuerdos de la Alhambra"
"Fandanguillo"
"Soleares" (Turina) *
"Rafaga" (Turina) *
"El Testemen de Amelia"
"Scherzino Mexicano" (Ponce) *
"El Colibri"

VIRTUOSO MUSIC FOR GUITAR
"Spanish Dance No. 5"
Etude No. 8 (Villa-Lobos) *
"Homenaje a Debussy"

MORE VIRTUOSO MUSIC FOR GUITAR
"Fantasia..." (Mudarra)
"Diferencias Sobre el Conde Claros" (Mudarra) *
Prelude No. 4 (V-L)
Prelude No. 2 (V-L) *
"Aires de la Mancha" (Moreno-Torroba) *

Better choices could have been made from this pool. I myself would have included the "Valses Poeticos" and left out the Villa-Lobos. I've always been bowled over by JW's approach to Spanish repertoire, but don't find him completely convincing with Villa-Lobos' music which in my opinion benefits greatly from a "warmer" touch (like Bream's). Most certainly, the inclusion of these Segreras and Villa-Lobos pieces in a "Spanish" recital is a bit strange, although they're both showy and can be loosely associated with Spanish guitar. Turina's "Rafaga" is one of JW's most fiery performances and could have made the cut. One could in fact make a compelling case for all three Turina pieces from the first LP. Happily, another JW disc which draws from the same recordings, SPANISH GUITAR FAVORITES, does have both the "Valses Poeticos" and all the Turina, and is also available on Amazon.

Quibbling aside, these performances were at the time (and still are) STARTLINGLY good. It's difficult to convey nowadays just how impossible it seemed in 1970 that a human being could play like this. This music is difficult to play and nobody had ever done it with such confidence and ease. I'll never forget seeing JW in 1971 and looking around the hall to see faces uniformly agog.

There are three different packagings for this same disc. I have not heard them all and am in no position to comment as to their relative value. Thank you for reading.
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