Label: GHA RECORDS 126027
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ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992): Escualo - Sèrgio & Odair Assad, guitar
STEPAN LUCKY (b. 1919): Duo concertante - Odair Assad, guitar ; Edmond Carlier, cello
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992): Histoire du tango - Odair Assad, guitar ; Fernando Suarez Paz, violin
RADAMÉS GNATTALI (1906-1988): Sonata - Odair Assad, guitar
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921-1992): Escualo - Sèrgio & Odair Assad, guitar

I was still a teenager when I met Radamés Gnattali for the first time. I remember with much emotion the “Velho Rada” as we used to call him. He was our idol because he was writing, already in the sixties, in the style that is called today “cross over”, mixing naturally and with great ease the Brazilian rhythms with jazz and classical style. We became great friends. Radamés loved to compose for his friends, that is how I often played with my brother Sérgio his concertos for two guitars, his Brasiliana nr 8 for two guitars and some other typically Brazilian compositions. I felt a lot of pleasure and nostalgia in recording with Edmond Carlier Radamés’ Sonata for cello and guitar. At a friend’s party in Paris, in 1983, Sérgio and I played a version for two guitars of Astor Piazzolla’s tango Escolaso in his presence. Astor was so happy that he promised us that he would compose for our duo — we never thought that he would really do it and so quickly! And so was born the now famous Tango Suite, one of the most beautiful present s we have ever received. Fernando Suarez Paz has been Astor Piazzolla’s partner during the ten years existence of the “Quinteto Piazzolla”, the tango Escualo is dedicated to him. My brother arranged it for two guitars and violin for this recording. Fernando’s passionate playing has always seduced me, and we the idea of recording L’histoire du tango appeared, I immediately thought of him, of his warn violin and of his unbelievable authenticity in playing Piazzolla’s music. Edmond Carlier, first cello at the Orchestre de la Monnaie in Brussels, and André Navarra’s disciple, introduced me to Stepan Lucky’s Duo concertante ... and gave me the desire to play it with him! We have spent together unforgettable moments in this Czech composer universe. -Odair Assad

Label: GHA RECORDS 126034
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THE BEST OF CLASSICAL GUITAR LOS ANGELES GUITART QT.

Label: GHA RECORDS 126062
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FRANÇOIS LE COCQ (ca. 1685 – 1729) – PIÈCES POUR GUITARE (1729)
Pièces en sol majeur (Allemande, Air, Adagio)
Pièces en sol mineur (Allemande, Courante, Bourrée)
Pièces en ré mineur (Allemande, Adagio, Gavotte, Menuets 1 & 2, La polonoise, Air prestissimo)
Pièces en la mineur (Gavotte, Courante, Gigue, Sarabande, Air, Gigue, Air allegro)
Pièces en ré mineur (Allemande, Bourrée, Menuet, La polonoise, Gavotte, Gigue)

Rafael Andia, guitar
Born in France of Spanish parents, Rafael Andia first studied the violin. At the age of eighteen, after an identity crisis which led him to an awareness of his own family musical tradition he decided to devote his life to the guitar. The Flamenco that he first practiced yielded to the classical guitar after several years, but his conception of the instrument remains durably fixed under that first influence. For example, his pursuit of Hispanic influence in the field of classical music of the past led him first to pioneer the development of the Spanish baroque guitar, deeply imbued with popular dance. In the 1980s he then recorded several albums, using ancient instruments, that are still anthologized to this day, such as the Robert de Visee integral.

Label: GHA RECORDS 126600
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JOAQUIN RODRIGO (1901 – 1999): Invocation et danse – Scott Tennant, guitar; IGOR STRAVINSKY (1882 – 1971): Eight Easy Pieces (selections): Andante; Napolitana; Española; Balalaïka – Trio de Cologne; THELONIOUS MONK (1917 – 1982): Round Midnight – Roland Dyens, guitar; STEPAN LUCKY (*1919): Andante sostenuto & allegro vivo – Odair Assad, guitar; Edmond Carlier, cello; LEO BROUWER (*1939): Sarabande de Scriabin; La toccata de Pasquini – Costas Cotsiolis, guitar; DIETRICH BUXTEHUDE (1637 – 1707): Suite in E minor – Roberto Aussel, guitar; JOHANN KASPAR MERTZ (1806 – 1856): Fantaisie hongroise – David Russell, guitar; ASTOR PIAZZOLLA (1921 – 1992): Tangus dei – Eduardo Isaac, guitar; EGBERTO GISMONTI (*1947): Baião malandro – Sergio & Odair Assad, guitars
Selected amongst the guitar albums recorded within a period of twenty years, here are some of the most intense musical moments from the GHA catalog.