EM Records is delighted to announce it's first guitar disc with compositions from the Renaissance up to the present day. Plucked instruments featured prominently during the Renaissance period in English Music; we think especially of the outstanding lute music of John Dowland. This epoch is considered to be the Golden Age of the plucked instruments that have inspired English composers throughout the centuries. One of the most influential works of the Twentieth century for the classical guitar is Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal After John Dowland. This disc contains the programme that Duo Guitartes performed at the English Music Festival in May 2017 and includes works by John Dowland, Peter Philips, John Johnson, Henry Purcell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Stephen Dodgson. The majority of these works are new arrangements by Duo Guitartes. A further outstanding highlight of this disc is the world première recording of Serenade by Joseph Phibbs, which is dedicated to Duo Guitartes
1 Henry Purcell: Suite, Z.661 (Arr. Duo Guitartes): Prelude
2 Henry Purcell: Suite, Z.661 (Arr. Duo Guitartes): Almand
3 Henry Purcell: Suite, Z.661 (Arr. Duo Guitartes): Corant
4 Henry Purcell: Suite, Z.661 (Arr. Duo Guitartes): Saraband
5 Peter Philips: Pauana Dolorosa Tregian (Arr. Duo Guitartes)
6 John Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae (Arr. Duo Guitartes)
7 John Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae Novae (Arr. Duo Guitartes)
8 John Johnson: The Flatt Pavin (Arr. Duo Guitartes)
9 John Johnson: Variations on Greensleeves (Arr. Duo Guitartes)
10 Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
11 Joseph Phibbs: Serenade: Dialogue
12 Joseph Phibbs: Serenade: Corrente
13 Joseph Phibbs: Serenade: Liberamente
14 Peter Maxwell Davies: Three Sanday Places (2009): Knowes O' Yarrow
15 Peter Maxwell Davies: Three Sanday Places (2009): Waters of Woo
16 Peter Maxwell Davies: Three Sanday Places (2009): Kettletoft Pier
17 Stephen Dodgson: Promenade I
EM Records is delighted to announce it's first guitar disc with compositions from the Renaissance up to the present day. Plucked instruments featured prominently during the Renaissance period in English Music; we think especially of the outstanding lute music of John Dowland. This epoch is considered to be the Golden Age of the plucked instruments that have inspired English composers throughout the centuries. One of the most influential works of the Twentieth century for the classical guitar is Benjamin Britten's Nocturnal After John Dowland. This disc contains the programme that Duo Guitartes performed at the English Music Festival in May 2017 and includes works by John Dowland, Peter Philips, John Johnson, Henry Purcell, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Peter Maxwell Davies, and Stephen Dodgson. The majority of these works are new arrangements by Duo Guitartes. A further outstanding highlight of this disc is the world première recording of Serenade by Joseph Phibbs, which is dedicated to Duo Guitartes
