New Music with Guitar, Vol. 6
David Starobin, guitar
"No one has done more to champion guitar music by
contemporary composers than the brilliant guitarist and co-founder of Bridge
Records, David Starobin." - Sequenza21.com
David Starobin is the virtuoso of
the contemporary classical guitar. Over the past 20 years or so around 300
pieces have been written for him, and he's recorded quite a few of them in the
'New Music with Guitar' series on his own Bridge label, of which this is the
sixth volume... (It) includes Joshua Variations, by Starobin's brother
Michael, a charming set of miniatures portraying a day in the life of a new-born
baby. Charm is in fact the key-note of the disc; Whatever the style,
Starobin's playing is a joy; agile, expressive, and always golden-toned."
--BBC Music Magazine (December, 2004) |
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New Music with Guitar, Vol. 6
David Starobin, guitar
Michael Starobin
Joshua Variations (solo guitar)
George Crumb
Mundus Canis (guitar and percussion)
George Crumb, percussion
David Liptak
Forlane (solo guitar)
Melinda Wagner
Arabesque (solo guitar)
Richard Wernick
Trochaic Trot (solo guitar)
Gunther Schuller
Fantasy-Suite (solo guitar)
Paul Lansky
Shameless Sarabande (solo guitar)
Elliott Carter
Luimen
(trumpet, trombone, harp, mandolin, guitar and vibraphone)
Speculum Musicae
William Purvis, conductor
(Raymond Mase, trumpet; Michael Powell, trombone; June Han, harp; William
Anderson, mandolin, David Starobin, guitar; Pablo Rieppi, vibraphone)
BRIDGE 9144
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David Starobin's award-winning "New Music with Guitar"
series continues with the release of Volume Six. This CD includes
solo and chamber works written between 1992 and 2000, performed by
Grammy-nominated guitar virtuoso David Starobin, backed by Pulitzer
prize-winning composer/percussionist George Crumb and Speculum
Musicae. The disc features guitar solos by Gunther Schuller, Michael Starobin, Richard
Wernick, Melinda Wagner, David Liptak, and Paul
Lansky--all in premiere recordings. Volume Six also contains George
Crumb's "Mundus Canis"--with the composer performing (and
whispering and yelling) on percussion. Starobin and Crumb have
toured throughout the USA and Europe with this series of "dog
portraits" delighting audiences and critics with these five
humoresques. To conclude the disc, Elliott Carter's fantastically
inventive sextet, "Luimen" is performed by Speculum
Musicae, New York City's virtuoso new music band. London's
"Classical Guitar" magazine says of David Starobin:
"First and foremost there is the incredible David Starobin. His
contribution has been invaluable, without price, impossible to
estimate. If there were an award for the player most likely to
further the cause of the guitar in the musical mainstream, we would
be inclined to nominate David Starobin"
The following Starobin discs are also available on Bridge Records:
Family Album: New Music with Guitar, Vol. 7 (BRIDGE 9239)
New Music with Guitar, Vol. 6 (BRIDGE 9144)
New Music with Guitar, Volume 5 (BRIDGE 9042)
New Music with Guitar, Volume 4 (BRIDGE 9022)
New Music with Guitar, Volume 1-3 (BRIDGE 9009)
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