William Carter – Santiago de Murcia: La Guitar Espanola (2007) [2.0 & 5.1] {SACD ISO + FLAC}

La Guitarra Española is the second solo album from William Carter. This recording explores the fascinating music of Spanish guitar legend Santiago de Murcia who successfully fused the popular and art music of the early 1700s. In contrast to his contribution to the rise of these scandalous and immoral dances the composer also produced many beautiful transcriptions and compositions. In La Guitarra Española William Carter successfully merges Murcia’s controversial materials with these charming works and consequently presents an exciting and unique recording. The guitarist creates an original sound delivered by the sensitive interpretations and innovative arrangements which include a guest appearance on the bass line by fellow Palladian Trio musician Susanne Heinrich.

Baroque guitarist William Carter is a member of the outstanding chamber group Palladian Ensemble, and Linn’s Santiago de Murcia: La Guitarra Española is his second outing as soloist, though on some tracks Carter is joined on bass viol by Palladian cohort Susanne Heinrich. Santiago de Murcia is considered the last great exponent of the Spanish five-course guitar, an instrument limited to two octaves and played here with finesse and a very high level of artistry by Carter. Though not as well known as Fernando Sor or Gaspar Sanz, de Murcia has not suffered for worthy advocates; Rolf Lislevand, Paul O’Dette, Jakob Lindberg, and Richard Savino have all contributed rather substantial programs of de Murcia to the recorded literature. However, this entry by Carter is SUCH a contender – Linn’s recorded sound is nothing less than perfect, and Carter’s interpretations have such qualities of restraint and emotional depth as to achieve a strong sense of separateness from others. Carter spins out de Murcia’s melting Passacalles with sensitivity and flexibility, and his realizations of de Murcia’s dances are groovy without being ostentatious. Lislevand may rock the dances harder, but what Carter does here with Susanne Heinrich’s help is equally creative, not to mention considerably less idiosyncratic. What Carter achieves on Santiago de Murcia: La Guitarra Española evokes what one admirer said about de Murcia himself during his lifetime; “hearing your supreme conceits, they say that you make poetry with your fingers, or that you versify with your hands.”

Tracklist:
01. Folias Españolas
02. Prelude
03. Passacalles por la E – A compassillo
04. Passacalles por la E – A proporcion
05. Suite (after Gaspar Sanz, 1675)
06. Zarembeques, o Muecas
07. Canarios
08. Passacalles por la B, a compassillo
09. Cumbees
10. Passacalles por la D – A compassillo
11. Passacalles por la D – A proporcion
12. Marionas por la B
13. Preludio Grabe de Coreli
14. Giga de Coreli
15. Gaitas

Produced by Philip Hobbs and William Carter. Engineered by Philip Hobbs.
Recorded at St Andrews Church, Toddington, UK on September 17-19, 2006.
Edited, Mixed & Mmastered by Julia Thomas, Finesplice, UK.

Personnel
William Carter – baroque guitar
With Susanne Heinrich – bass violin on “5,6,9,13-14”

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