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Air on a G String - Baroque Guitar Masterpieces [CD]

David Russell (Artist) | Format: Audio CD
3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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  • Audio CD (18 Dec 2008)
  • SPARS Code: DDD
  • Number of Discs: 1
  • Format: CD
  • Label: Telarc Classical
  • ASIN: B0012IWIKE
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 47,986 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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1. Allemande
2. Courante
3. Sarabande
4. Bourree Anglaise
5. Adagio/Arioso (Sinfonia From the Cantata No.156)
6. Fantasia In C Minor Sm.83
7. Prelude Sm.32 From the Sonata No.5 In G Major
8. Allemande Sm.114 From the Sonata No.19 In F Major
9. Courente Royale Sm.31
10. Tombeau Sur La Mort De M. Comte D'Logy Sm.210
11. Allegro Sm.141 From the Sonata No.22 In G Major
12. Pastorale In F Major, Movement III, BWV 590
13. Allemande
14. Courante
15. Sarabande
16. Gigue A La Maniere Anglaise
17. Minuet
18. Passepied
19. Rigaudon Pour Les Trompettes
20. Caprice En Passacaille
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Album Description

Air on a G String brings together works by Jacques de Saint-Luc and Silvius Leopold Weiss, two of the master lutenists of the late 17th and early 18th centuries, as well as Russell's own transcriptions for guitar of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach and François Couperin.

Silvius Leopold Weiss, born in Breslau (now Wroclaw, Poland) in 1686, was the most renowned member of Germany's leading family of lutenists during the time of Johann Sebastian Bach. Weiss wrote well over eight hundred pieces for lute - more than any other composer - including some sixty solo "sonatas". The Flemish lutenist and composer Jacques de Saint-Luc was born in 1616 in Ath, twenty miles southwest of Brussels and not far from Belgium's present-day border with France.

Couperin's Les Silvains (The Woodland Fauns, Book I of Pièces de Clavecin [1713], Ordre 1, No. 8) is one of his earliest keyboard works of the pastoralism that figured so prominently in 18th-century French art. Tours de Passe-Passe (Book IV [1730], Ordre 22, No. 8) is a French colloquialism for "legerdemain" or "sleight-of-hand," and in Couperin's playfully effervescent piece indicates the crossing of hands at the keyboard.

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Er...Um...Aaaaaah! 15 Oct 2011
Format:Audio CD
All I can say to a previous reviewer is, well it ain't acid rock is it? What it is is one of David Russell's best albums. Superbly musical with precise fingerwork - yes precise fingerwork IS what John Williams does, but this is ALSO superbly musical. 62m 18s of sublime baroque music played by the master.
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One of most enjoyable recordings from David Russell.

From my thirty years of teaching Classical Guitar, I would recommend this,
as a quality performance.

David Hill
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...Honestly?
I deleted this after a week because, quite frankly, it irritated the living s**t out of me. I replaced it with Linkin Park's Hybrid Theory.
Get a life, do, and listen to something with some life and soul in it.
Unfrothy, man.
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