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Evocaciones de Espana CD Review
Evocaciones de Espana Emec Discos E - 075
Soloists: Agustin Maruri (guitar) & Michael Kevin Jones (cello)
Suite 'Evocaciones de Espana' composed by Paul Coles
This well-filled, well-played and well-recorded CD treats us to some unfamiliar music…… and the verb 'treat' is not casually chosen - this is a special entertainment, a feast at which one feels specially privileged, given the intimacy of the music-making.
Evocaciones de España was commissioned by the Jones/Mauri duo and premiered by them in 2006. ……………… a genuine charm, whether in the tango of 'Café solo' or the powerful, appropriately 'deep' meditation of the second piece or the seductive fandango-like rhythms of 'La chica en al Naranjal' ('The Girl in the Orange Grove').
Only those with a puritanical aversion to all arrangements or, indeed, an aversion to the guitar - I have met both before now - are likely to find this CD anything other than a highly pleasurable - a real treat.
Evocaciones de España was commissioned by the Jones/Mauri duo and premiered by them in 2006. ……………… a genuine charm, whether in the tango of 'Café solo' or the powerful, appropriately 'deep' meditation of the second piece or the seductive fandango-like rhythms of 'La chica en al Naranjal' ('The Girl in the Orange Grove').
Only those with a puritanical aversion to all arrangements or, indeed, an aversion to the guitar - I have met both before now - are likely to find this CD anything other than a highly pleasurable - a real treat.
Glyn Pursglove
Classical Music Reviews - June 2009 MusicWeb-International