Duarte: Complete Works for Guitar Quartet Quartetto Santórsola

• John Duarte (1919 - 2004): Concerto democratico, Op. 108:
• 1Duarte: Concerto democratico, Op. 108: I. Ritmico02:50
• 2Duarte: Concerto democratico, Op. 108: II. Adagio03:50
• 3Duarte: Concerto democratico, Op. 108: III. Con Brio01:52
• Ballade, Op. 53:
• 4Duarte: Ballade, Op. 5304:25
• Diptych No. 1, Op. 80:
• 5Duarte: Diptych No. 1, Op. 80: I. Aria04:56
• 6Duarte: Diptych No. 1, Op. 80: II. Toccata02:32
• Tentos I, Op. 63:
• 7Duarte: Tentos I, Op. 63: I. Sostenuto04:58
• 8Duarte: Tentos I, Op. 63: II. Calmo04:04
• 9Duarte: Tentos I, Op. 63: III. -04:37
• Going Dutch, Op. 36:
• 10Duarte: Going Dutch, Op. 36: I. Windmill01:12
• 11Duarte: Going Dutch, Op. 36: II. Pastorale00:56
• 12Duarte: Going Dutch, Op. 36: III. March01:18
• 13Duarte: Going Dutch, Op. 36: IV. Carillon01:31
• 14Duarte: Going Dutch, Op. 36: V. Dutch Dance01:46
• Little Suite No. 1, Op. 68:
• 15Duarte: Little Suite No. 1, Op. 68: I. Anglaise00:53
• 16Duarte: Little Suite No. 1, Op. 68: II. Sarabande02:25
• 17Duarte: Little Suite No. 1, Op. 68: III. Bourrée01:17
• 18Duarte: Little Suite No. 1, Op. 68: IV. Gigue01:14
• English Suite No. 3, Op. 78:
• 19Duarte: English Suite No. 3, Op. 78: I. Rufty Tufty01:29
• 20Duarte: English Suite No. 3, Op. 78: II. The Crystal Spring02:02
• 21Duarte: English Suite No. 3, Op. 78: III. The Black Nag01:53
• Sonatina di primavera, Op. 27a:
• 22Duarte: Sonatina di primavera, Op. 27a: I. Allegretto molto lirico ma Facile02:31
• 23Duarte: Sonatina di primavera, Op. 27a: II. Espressivo03:55
• 24Duarte: Sonatina di primavera, Op. 27a: III. Vivo02:30
• Americana, Op. 96a:
• 25Duarte: Americana, Op. 96a: I. Broadway02:17
• 26Duarte: Americana, Op. 96a: II. Work song & Blues04:44
• 27Duarte: Americana, Op. 96a: III. Hoe-Down03:02
• Moraviana No. 2, Op. 146:
• 28Duarte: Moraviana No. 2, Op. 146: I. Kdo si tu pěsničku zazpívá (Who is Singing the Song?)01:19
• 29Duarte: Moraviana No. 2, Op. 146: II. Ach, bože moj (Oh, my God)03:00
• 30Duarte: Moraviana No. 2, Op. 146: III. Co sa to šupóce (Polka antojadizo) [What is Happening Behind the Barn?]01:46
• Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): 3 Pieces from Children's Album, Op. 39:
• 31Tchaikovsky: 3 Pieces from Children's Album, Op. 39: II. A Winter Morning (Arr. By John Duarte)01:06
• 32Tchaikovsky: 3 Pieces from Children's Album, Op. 39: IX. The New Doll (Arr. By John Duarte)00:39
• 33Tchaikovsky: 3 Pieces from Children's Album, Op. 39: XX. The Old Wife's Tale (Arr. By John Duarte)00:52
• 34Tchaikovsky: 4 Pieces from Children's Album, Op. 39: V. March of the Wooden Soldiers (Arr. By John Duarte)00:54
• 35Tchaikovsky: 4 Pieces from Children's Album, Op. 39: XXIV. In Church (Arr. By John Duarte)02:01
• 36Tchaikovsky: 4 Pieces from Children's Album, Op. 39: VI. Dolly is Ill (Arr. By John Duarte)01:46
• 37Tchaikovsky: 4 Pieces from Children's Album, Op. 39: III. The Hobby-Horse (Arr. By John Duarte)00:47
• Frederick Delius (1862 - 1934): Serenade from Hassan (Arr. By John Duarte):
• 38Delius: Serenade from Hassan (Arr. By John Duarte)02:00
• Michael Praetorius (1571 - 1621): 4 French Dances:
• 39Praetorius: 4 French Dances: I. Courante (Arr. By John Duarte)00:47
• 40Praetorius: 4 French Dances: II. Ballet (Arr. By John Duarte)01:34
• 41Praetorius: 4 French Dances: III. Galliarde (Arr. By John Duarte)01:02
• 42Praetorius: 4 French Dances: IV. Galliarde (Arr. By John Duarte)01:01
• John Duarte: 4 Elizabethan Pieces:
• 43Duarte: 4 Elizabethan Pieces: I. La shy Myze00:58
• 44Duarte: 4 Elizabethan Pieces: II. When griping Griefs00:50
• 45Duarte: 4 Elizabethan Pieces: III. Coranto01:09
• 46Duarte: 4 Elizabethan Pieces: IV. La doune Cella01:09
• 4 pieces from The Mulliner Book:
• 47Duarte: 4 pieces from The Mulliner Book: I. My Friends00:58
• 48Duarte: 4 pieces from The Mulliner Book: II. O, the Syllye Man01:29
• 49Duarte: 4 pieces from The Mulliner Book: III. I Smyle to See Howe You Devyse00:38
• 50Duarte: 4 pieces from The Mulliner Book: IV. Ffonde Youthe is a Bubble01:21
• 4 French Renaissance Dances:
• 51Duarte: 4 French Renaissance Dances: I. Au joli bois (Gaillarde)01:00
• 52Duarte: 4 French Renaissance Dances: II. Premier Bransle de la Guerre00:54
• 53Duarte: 4 French Renaissance Dances: III. Almande00:56
• 54Duarte: 4 French Renaissance Dances: IV. Allemande Courrante01:28
• 3 French Renaissance Works:
• 55Duarte: 3 French Renaissance Works: I. Amour me Voyant00:48
• 56Duarte: 3 French Renaissance Works: II. De vous Servir01:16
• 57Duarte: 3 French Renaissance Works: III. Trois jeunes Bourgeoises01:17
• Tack för Allt (Thanks for Everything):
• 58Duarte: Tack för Allt (Thanks for Everything): I. Allas ögon vänta på dig, Herre00:41
• 59Duarte: Tack för Allt (Thanks for Everything): II. Downe a Downe01:05
• 60Duarte: Tack för Allt (Thanks for Everything): III. Chorale (Dir, dir Jehovah will ich singen), BWV 29900:50
• 61Duarte: Tack för Allt (Thanks for Everything): IV. J.W. Duarte: 344400:54
• 62Duarte: Tack för Allt (Thanks for Everything): V. From Hesse, Germany. Tack Gud att Brödet01:09
• 2 English Traditional Songs:
• 63Duarte: 2 English Traditional Songs: I. Sing Ivy01:33
• 64Duarte: 2 English Traditional Songs: II. The Scolding Wife01:07
• Total Runtime01:55:03

Info for Duarte: Complete Works for Guitar Quartet

John W. Duarte was not only one of the most prolific composers for the solo classic guitar in the 20th century; he was also concerned with the instrument in an ensemble context. He made a lasting contribution to the concept and musical chemistry of the guitar quartet, a much-neglected feature until his innovations. This area of his creative work proved something of a goldmine for both professional quartets and educational settings where the guitar was taught as a serious instrument, worthy of deep study, and indeed for Summer Schools worldwide. In this the composer offered arrangements and original works of taste and delicacy, a hitherto unprecedented development in the expanding repertoire of the guitar.

This fourth instalment in Brilliant Classics’ series dedicated to the vast and precious guitar oeuvre of John W. Duarte provides a complete survey of the composer’s music for four guitars. This sub-set of his guitar music is in itself greatly varied in style but of consistently superb quality. Disc one contains music he originally composed for this ensemble, and disc two features his arrangements (many of them of his own compositions) for guitar quartet.

Duarte explained that his own stylistic eclecticism derived from improvisation, with composition being a slower form of improvisation benefitting from time to reconsider and to refine the product: ‘What one hears becomes translatable into “play-back” action and/or, given a knowledge of musical theory, comprehensible. It can provide a direct route to eclecticism – one may adopt what one chooses into one’s own bloodstream and bypass what one feels foreign to one’s own nature. For this reason I have never had one immediately identifiable style and have happily lived with a wide variety of idioms.’

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