Alan Rinehart 

Renaissance Masters and Latin Romantics

NovaScribe Editions Recordings NS201

To sample a track from this recording click the title below:

Home again market is done

"There's a live sense to this recording that makes the listener feel as though a part of the concert audience, intimately involved with Rinehart's skillful and sensitive interpretations." GUITAR PLAYER magazine

The guitar and lute both enjoy a rich and varied tradition of expert players who are also recognized composers. In Renaissance Europe, the lute was the king of instruments, inspiring some of the period's greatest works. The guitar in Hispanic and Latin countries is also endowed with a line of musicians whose mastery continues to ensure a place in our cultural fabric for this most personal of instruments.

1.          Francesco da Milano (1487-1543)  Fantasia l:03

2.          Laurencini of Rome (fl. 1590)  Fantasia 2:56 

3.          Pierre Attaignant (fl. 1520). Basse Danse 'La Magdalena' 2:15

4.          Antoine Francisque (fl. 1590) Pavan Espagnol 2:32

5-7.       Luis de Narvaez (fl. 1540) 5. Fantasia l:20, 6. Mille regres 2:30, 7. Lleva el tiple (basse danse) 1:30

8.          Anthony Holborne (1540? - 1602) Cradle Pavan 4:03

9.          John Dowland (1563-1626) Dowland`s Galliard 1:O5

10.        Anon. from Margaret Board's Lute Book "Home Again, Market is done" 1:10

11.        Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829) Grand Overture op. 61 8:21

12-13.  Augustin Barrios (1885-1944) 12. Sarita-mazurka 2:45, 13. Danza Paraguaya 2:30

14.        Leo Brouwer (b. 1939) Elogio de la Danza (1964) 5:25

This recording was conceived of as a musical equivalent to a culinary banquet. Taking the dictionary definition of banquet (‘an elaborate or extensive feast") as a starting point, the works presented here follow a path through musical styles as one would enjoy a fine meal. A classic appetizer sets the ‘meal’ off, followed by an ‘antipasto’, two courses of ‘chef’s specials’ each full of many colours and ‘flavours’, a lighter dessert course and a rousing finale to send the listener home with a smile.

1- 5      Anthony Holborne Five Pieces for Bandora

6          Isaac Albeniz Mallorca op. 202

7-14    John W. Duarte In Honorem Ioanni Doulandi op. 97  World Premiere Recording

15-19  Máximo Diego Pujol Five Preludes

20-21  Celso Machado  Abraço e neto a lea, Parazula

22       Don Ross  First Ride

The Vancouver Guitar Quartet 

Estampas 

(Paul MacDermot, David Sugars, Alan Rinehart, Michael Strutt)   VGQCD 98882

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Ponteio

"The Vancouver Guitar Quartet is excellent: good sound, sense of orchestration, flexible phrasing and, needless to say, faultless technique." Angelo Gilardino, artistic director of the Andres Segovia Foundation of Spain

This is a collection of arrangements and original music by one of Canada's newest and most interesting ensembles.  Playing four standard classical guitars, the VGQ concentrates on music that is appealing and makes full use of the 'orchestral' possibilities of a guitar quartet.  They are currently working on their second CD of brand new music (much of it written for the Quartet).  Please see the website listed in LINKS for more details about the VGQ.

1-5.        Moritz Moszkowski (1854-1925) Spanish Dances op.12

6.           Joaquin Rodrigo (1902-1999)  de los alamos vengo madre

7-10.      Celso Machado (b. 1953)  four Brazilian pieces

11.         Hal Isbitz  Chandelier Rag

12-19.    Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982)  Estampas

20.         Heitor Villa Lobos (1887-1959)  Quartet no. 5 (1st movement)

21-26.    Vicente Sojo (1887-1974) Venezuelan songs and dances