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Andres Segovia - 1950s American Recordings Vol.1

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Label: Naxos - Historical

Cat No: 8111089

Barcode: 0747313308927

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 30th July 2007

Works

J S Bach
Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: Prelude

J S Bach
Cello Suite No. 6 in D major, BWV 1012: Gavotte I & II

J S Bach
Violin Partita No. 1 in B minor, BWV 1002: Bourrée

J S Bach
Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Courante

J S Bach
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: Sicilienne

J S Bach
Suite in E minor, BWV 996: Bourrée

J S Bach
Prelude in C minor, BWV 999

J S Bach
Suite in E major, BWV 1006a: Gavotte en Rondeau

J S Bach
Violin Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Chaconne

J S Bach
Cello Suite No. 3 in C major, BWV 1009: Bourrée I & II

J S Bach
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: Fugue

Handel
Suite X1, HMV 437, III: Sarabande with Variations

Handel
Minuet I (in D major) & II (in D minor)

Handel
Minuet I (Andantino) & II (Grazioso)

Handel
Gavotte

CPE Bach
Siciliana in F sharp minor

Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice: Ballet

Haydn
Minuet and Trio in D

Artists

Andres Segovia (guitar)

Works

Artists

Andres Segovia (guitar)

About

Andrés Segovia was entirely self-taught, playing his first public recital at the age of 14. He is credited with elevating the guitar from a folk instrument to the highest levels of the international concert stage. This third release in the Naxos Segovia Edition is the first of six discs devoted to the great guitarist’s 1950s American recordings.

Focusing on performances of his transcriptions of the works of J. S. Bach and Handel, it includes a number of war-horses such as the brilliant ‘Courante’ from the Cello Suite No. 3 and the ‘Gavotte en Rondeau’ from the Suite in E major, both of which preserve many of the virtuosic felicities of the originals.

Segovia’s transcription of the ‘Chaconne’ from the Violin Partita No. 2 has become one of the most deeply loved items of the guitar repertoire.

Segovia has been described as “one of the greatest of all guitarists” by Gramophone.

Recorded in New York in 1952, 1954 and 1955.