LAURINDO ALMEIDA - Duets with the Spanish Guitar [1958] LP / FLAC

Tracklist  

A1 Entr'acte

Composed By – Jacques Ibert

A2 Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5

Composed By – Heitor Villa-Lobos

A3 Ronde

Composed By – Emile Desportes

A4 Azulão

Composed By – Jayme Ovalle

A5 Prelude In E Minor, Opus 28, No. 4

Composed By – Frédéric Chopin

Transcription By – Almeida

A6 O Cacador

Composed By – Laurindo Almeida

A7 Pastorale Joyeuse

Composed By – Emile Desportes

Tres Pontos De Santo

Composed By – Jayme Ovalle

B1.1 Chariô

B1.2 Aruanda

B1.3 Estrella Do Mar

B2 Tambourin

Composed By – François Joseph Gossec

B3 Boi-Bumbá

Composed By – Valdemar Henrique, Transcription By – Almeida

B4 Sicilienne

Composed By – Gabriel Fauré

B5 Para Ninar

Composed By – Paurillo Barroso

B6 Pièce En Forme De Habanera

Composed By – Maurice Ravel

B7 Maracatú

Composed By – Ernani Braga

Heitor Villa-Lobos, composer of "Bachianas Brasilieras No 5", considered the version of the Aria by Salli Terri and Laurindo Almeida on Duets with the Spanish Guitar to be the best recorded performance of this work.

Grammy nominations, 1959

Best Engineered Record, Classical   (winner)

Best Classical Performance, Vocal Soloist

the following experts are taken from Capitol promo material -

from Hi-Fi & Music Review May, 1958 - ...a prize-winner in my collection. Laurindo Almeida's guitar playing captures the keen poignancy and rhythmic elan of Brazilian music with superb assurance and taste. He is joined by an excellent flutist, Martin Ruderman...and a mezzo-soprano whose velvet voice and astonishing flexibility has hardly an equal at present: a girl with the singular name of Salli Terri. She sings Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 with a sinuousness and ecstasy which make this the finest modern version. - K.G.R.

from the Seattle Post Intelligence, February 1958 - ...Miss Terri's voice is an ethereal one, and the three musicians make totally enchanting music together. Highly recommended.

from the Oregonian, February 1958 - ...exploits the lyric and emotional possibilities of everything from the 5th Bachianas Brasileiras to a Chopin prelude...unbelievable singing. A fascinating assortment of mingled beauties.

Credits

Contralto Vocals – Salli Terri

Flute – Martin Ruderman 

Guitar – Laurindo Almeida 

LAURINDO ALMEIDA 

Duets with the Spanish Guitar [1958] LP / FLAC

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