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Olsen and St Martin in the Fields with a phenomenal Villa-Lobos guitar concerto<\/p>\n
Stein-Erik Olsen has released many highly acclaimed albums throughout his career. For his first guitar concerto recording he teams up with The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, renowned for its outstanding sound \u2013 rooted in outstanding musicianship. These three works cover much of the expressive range of the 20th century Guitar Concerto in the hands of three masters of both writing for the guitar and contemporary composition. Each represents a quite different musical sensibility and cultural background. <\/p>\n
Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote this Fantasia concertante in 1951 and dedicated it to Andr\u00e9s Segovia. Leo Brouwer’s Concerto Elegiaco is influenced by Javanese gamelan music as well as by the Afro-Cuban intricacies of Brouwer’s native Cuba. Nikita Koshkin, born in Moscow, Russia, is a virtuoso guitarist but his international reputation has been established by his superb compositions performed world-wide.<\/p>\n
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Stein-Erik Olsen has released many highly acclaimed albums throughout his career. For his first guitar concerto recording he teams up with The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, renowned for its outstanding sound \u2013 rooted in outstanding musicianship.<\/p>\n
The London-based orchestra is formed from a group of leading musicians. Originally directed by Sir Neville from the leader’s chair, the collegiate spirit and flexibility of the original small, conductor-less ensemble remains an Academy hallmark. This tradition continues today with virtuoso violinist Joshua Bell as Music Director.<\/p>\n
Stein-Erik Olsen has previously performed Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Guitar Concerto on many occasions, but this time he has a copy of the original manuscript as a starting point, sent to him by the Villa-Lobos Museum in Rio de Janerio. This has resulted in a number of new ideas for interpretation, and inspired a new reading of the whole piece for this recording. Leo Brouwer’s Concerto Elegiaco is an exiting and inventive, virtuoso composition. The second movement is nothing short of a musical gem, perhaps the most exquisite in the field of guitar concertos.<\/p>\n
Nikita Koshkin, born in Moscow, Russia, is a virtuoso guitarist but his international reputation has been established by his superb compositions performed world-wide. The ‘Bergen Concerto’ was written for Stein-Erik Olsen in 2007. The piece is joyful and fresh \u2013 also with material clearly rooted in Koshkin’s homeland Russia.<\/p>\n
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