Virtuoso Music For Guitar

 

John Williams: Virtuoso Music For Guitar

Virtuoso Music For Guitar
CBS 72348 / MS 6696
Recorded New York, May 1964
Released 1965
Producer: Paul Myers

  • Niccolo Paganini: Grand Sonata in A major Tr. Williams
    Allegro risoluto [06.42]
    Romanza [03.54]
    Andantino variato [07.08]
  • Enrique Granados: Spanish Dances Op. 37, No. 5 Andaluza [04.17]
  • Heitor Villa Lobos: Etude No. 8 in C Sharp Major [03.52]

  • Manuel de Falla: Homenaje Le tombeau de Claude Debussy [03.29]
  • Stephen Dodgson: Partita For Guitar
    Allegro con moto [03.00]
    Molto vivace [02.08]
    Adagio [03.12]
    Allegro [01.49]
  • Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Sonata for Guitar in D Major Op. 77 Omaggio a Boccherini - Fourth Movement Vivo ed energico [03.22]

Re-issue Notes:

The following compilation LPs include tracks from this album:
More Spanish Music and Other Favourites (1972) includes the Granados and de Falla;
John Williams Plays Paganini (1978) includes the Paganini;
John Williams plays Stephen Dodgson (1979) includes the Dodgson Partita;
The Guitar Music of John Williams (1980) includes the Paganini Sonata and Granados;
Greatest Hits/The Guitar (1972), John Williams' Greatest Hits (1974) and Recollections (1979) all include the Granados alone.

The following CDs include tracks from this album:
Spanish Guitar Favourites (1989) and Spanish Guitar Music (1990) both include the Granados and de Falla;
The Guitar Album (1994) includes Granados Spanish Dance No. 5;
The World of John Williams (1996) includes Aranjuez Allegro;
Guitar Recital (1996) includes the Paganini;
Dodgson & Rodrigo (1996) includes the Dodgson Partita.

I would add that unlike most of his peers (Segovia, Bream ...), John Williams has never recorded the complete Castelnuovo-Tedesco Sonata; this recording of the last movement is his only offering to date.

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