A Healing Fire Smaro Gregoriadou

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003 (Arr. S. Gregoriadou for Guitar):
• 1 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003 (Arr. S. Gregoriadou for Guitar): I. Grave 03:54
• 2 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003 (Arr. S. Gregoriadou for Guitar): II. Fuga 08:02
• 3 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003 (Arr. S. Gregoriadou for Guitar): III. Andante 04:52
• 4 Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003 (Arr. S. Gregoriadou for Guitar): IV. Allegro 06:18
• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976):
• 5 Nocturnal After John Dowland, Op. 70 17:27
• Sofia Gubaidulina (b. 1931):
• 6 Serenade for Solo Guitar 03:06
• Jacques Hétu (1938 - 2010): Suite pour guitare, Op. 41:
• 7 Suite pour guitare, Op. 41: I. Prélude 01:28
• 8 Suite pour guitare, Op. 41: II. Nocturne 03:44
• 9 Suite pour guitare, Op. 41: III. Ballade 04:08
• 10 Suite pour guitare, Op. 41: IV. Réverie 02:21
• 11 Suite pour guitare, Op. 41: V. Final 03:53
• Total Runtime 59:13

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As the innovative, world-renowned guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou says in her notes for this stunning new recording, her fourth for Delos, its music offers “encouragement and hope,” and illuminates with “a different kind of light, a different sort of fire.”

The program begins with her beautiful transcription of Bach’s beloved Solo Violin Sonata #2 and offers Britten’s fascinating Nocturnal, along with works by Gubaidulina and Hétu. As Raymond Tuttle put it, in a Fanfare review of one of Smaro’s earlier Delos releases, “Gregoriadou evokes musicians such as Vladimir Horowitz, Glenn Gould, and Wanda Landowska in her willingness to find a new way to express herself and to reanimate the music.”

Smaro Gregoriadou, guitar

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