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This CD couples the world’s favorite guitar concerto, Rodrigo’s fabulous Concierto de Aranjuez and the world premiere recording of Jacques Marchand’s Les 4 Éléments for Guitar and Orchestra. They are performed by Rémi Boucher, the hottest guitarist in the market today having in an 18 month span won first prize in five of the world’s most important guitar competitions: the Alessandria in Italy, Segovia in Spain, Havana in Cuba and the Guiliani (Turin) and Fernando Sor (Rome) in Italy. The Marchand work is a four movement program piece for guitar and orchestra using extended guitar techniques written for Rémi Boucher. These extended techniques make it possible to bring out the four elements which make up the movements, Earth, Water, Air and Fire. The program notes detail how these effects are executed on the guitar and will be of great interest to performers.
An Austrian critic called the work “concerto for three hands…!”, marveling that Boucher seemingly has no technical limits. This is a must have CD for guitar lovers who follow who’s hot on the world scene. |
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