- Conductor: -
- Composer: Hans Werner Henze, Magnus Lindberg, Toru Takemitsu
- Audio CD (2 April 2007)
- SPARS Code: DDD
- Number of Discs: 1
- Format: CD
- Label: Ondine
- ASIN: B000NI3FQ0
- Other Editions: MP3 Download
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 560,008 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
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Format:Audio CD
This is a delightful disc of alluring guitar sounds. Timo Korhonen plays all three composers sympathetically. The Henze especially is a modern classic; the Takemitsu is a very effective piece; and I found I liked the Lindberg too. Henze fans will want his other guitar music - strongly recommended to search out Juergen Ruck and Elena Casoli's very fine disc - but this is a fine introduction to that marvellous world.
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Not a terribly worthwhile disc
16 Jan 2010
Format:Audio CD
The Finnish guitarist Timo Korhonen has long championed contemporary music, and this Ondine disc from 2007 features his performances of solo guitar works by three composers. I'm not a fan of Henze and I came across this disc while exploring the music of Lindberg and Takemitsu, so I'll limit my review to the pieces by those two here.
Toru Takemitsu was probably the most important modernist composer of guitar music, and the instrument appears many times in his catalogue. "In the Woods" (1995) is one of the his last works, completed just four months before his untimely death. Cast in three movements, it is meant to be a musical representation of various places: "Wainscot Pond", "Rosedale" and "Muir Woods". Like all Takemitsu, it is slow and meditative, with only the briefest moments here and there of fast tempo. I personally find Takemitsu's guitar work pleasant but nothing to get excited about, as much as professional guitarists think it's the cat's meow.
Magnus Lindberg's "Mano a mano" (2004) offers a refreshing change of pace at first, as it is rather busy and more overtly virtuosic. However, it gets dull quickly. Lindberg's mature output is almost entirely for orchestra or for duos that he can treat like miniature orchestras. His idiom generally doesn't work on guitar. Towards the end there's a couple of minutes of decent music, but it's not worth waiting so long for. Not a major Lindberg piece at all.
Toru Takemitsu was probably the most important modernist composer of guitar music, and the instrument appears many times in his catalogue. "In the Woods" (1995) is one of the his last works, completed just four months before his untimely death. Cast in three movements, it is meant to be a musical representation of various places: "Wainscot Pond", "Rosedale" and "Muir Woods". Like all Takemitsu, it is slow and meditative, with only the briefest moments here and there of fast tempo. I personally find Takemitsu's guitar work pleasant but nothing to get excited about, as much as professional guitarists think it's the cat's meow.
Magnus Lindberg's "Mano a mano" (2004) offers a refreshing change of pace at first, as it is rather busy and more overtly virtuosic. However, it gets dull quickly. Lindberg's mature output is almost entirely for orchestra or for duos that he can treat like miniature orchestras. His idiom generally doesn't work on guitar. Towards the end there's a couple of minutes of decent music, but it's not worth waiting so long for. Not a major Lindberg piece at all.
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