James Akers - The Soldier's Return: Guitar Music Inspired by Scotland (2016) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist
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01. Variations on a Favourite Scottish Air, Op. 40
02. Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, WoO: I. The Soldier’s Return
03. Variations on Rossini’s ‘La Marcia’ (from La donna del Lago)
04. Prelude and Scotsoises (1)
05. Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, WoO: V. Blue Bells of Scotland
06. Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, WoO: IV. Jenny’s Bawbee, A Reel
07. Bardenklange, Op. 13: III. Fingal’s Cave
08. Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, WoO: III. Coming through the Rye
09. Prelude and Scotsoises (2)
10. Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, WoO: II. This is no my ain Lassie
11. Variations on Rossini’s ‘Oh Quante Lagrime’ (from La donna del Lago)
12. Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, WoO: VI. The Old Country Bumpkin

The increasingly in-demand guitarist and lutenist James Akers makes his Resonus solo debut with a stunning album of works for romantic guitar.

Akers provides a captivating programme of works – consisting almost entirely of world premiere recordings – by guitar legends from continental Europe, all inspired by the Scottish landscape its music and its literature.

Featuring Mauro Giuliani & Luigi Legnani (from Italy), Fernando Sor (from Spain) and Johann Kaspar Mertz (from Hungary), this seductive album draws the listener in to the magical, diverse, and even haunting, Scottish influences that bewitched each of these nineteenth century composers.

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