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Limited copies of Mazurka Collection book are also available.
Mazurka! (click CD cover to purchase or sample)
Mazurka! is available on
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Recorded in June, 2000 at Aardvark Media Productions recording studio, the disc features 19th and early 20th-century mazurkas for guitar. Many familiar guitar names are represented - Sor, Mertz, Legnani, Coste, Tárrega, Barrios, Sagreras. Also featured are Matthew's transcriptions of piano mazurkas by Chopin and Granados.
Mazurka Collection, Matthew Ardizzone –
editor
Mel Bay Publishing Company (MB# 98096)
Published December, 1999 $10.95
Mel Bay is currently out of stock, so please contact Matthew directly if you are interested in purchasing a copy.
Contents: Mazurkas from the guitar repertoire by Sor (2), Mertz (1), Coste (2), Legnani (1), Tárrega (4), Barrios (2) and Sagreras (2). Transcriptions of Chopin (4), Debussy (1), de Falla (1) and Granados (1).
Description: Some of the guitar mazurkas will be familiar (Tárrega, Barrios) but most have seldom been performed and are published only in facsimile editions (Sor, Mertz, Coste, Legnani). I provided some fingerings for these, but they are not heavily edited and fingered. The Coste, which were conceived for his seven-string guitar, required only slight revision. Most of the piano mazurkas are new transcriptions. Of the Chopin, two – Op. 17 Nos. 2 and 4 – are completely new, and two – Op. 33 Nos. 1 and 4 – are based on the transcriptions made by Tárrega. The Granados works particularly well for guitar, and is exceptionally beautiful. The Debussy is also a great find – seldom played by pianists, but extremely attractive.
Duo Forza (click CD cover to purchase)
Duo Forza's first CD is available through Amazon.com. Recorded in the summer of 2003, this recording features violinist Movses Pogossian. Read more about Duo Forza.