Duilio Meucci - Smith Brindle: Complete Works for Solo Guitar, Vol. 3 (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Il Serchio: Prelude
02. Île-de-France Variations (Ed. Steven Thachuk)
03. November Memories
04. 10 Simple Preludes (Ed. John W. Duarte): No. 1, The Harmony of Peace
05. 10 Simple Preludes (Ed. John W. Duarte): No. 2, Counterpoints I
06. 10 Simple Preludes (Ed. John W. Duarte): No. 3, Calm Intervals
07. 10 Simple Preludes (Ed. John W. Duarte): No. 4, Counterpoints II
08. 10 Simple Preludes (Ed. John W. Duarte): No. 5, Canto
09. 10 Simple Preludes (Ed. John W. Duarte): No. 6, Corsa
10. 10 Simple Preludes (Ed. John W. Duarte): No. 7, Llanura
11. 10 Simple Preludes (Ed. John W. Duarte): No. 8, Little Barrés
12. 10 Simple Preludes (Ed. John W. Duarte): No. 9, Cantilena
13. 10 Simple Preludes (Ed. John W. Duarte): No. 10, Arpeggios
14. Romance de la pena negra
15. Preludes & Fantasies: Prelude No. 1
16. Preludes & Fantasies: Prelude No. 2
17. Preludes & Fantasies: Prelude No. 3
18. Preludes & Fantasies: Prelude No. 4
19. Preludes & Fantasies: Prelude No. 5
20. Preludes and Fantasias: Prelude No. 6
21. Preludes & Fantasies: Fantasia No. 1, After Luys Milan
22. Preludes & Fantasies: Fantasia No. 2, After Alonso Mudarra
23. The Prince of Venosa

Reginald Smith Brindle served with the Royal Engineers in Africa and Italy during the Second World War, and later returned to Italy in 1949 to further his compositional studies with Pizzetti and Dallapiccola. The influence of Italian landscapes and culture can be found in many of Smith Brindle’s works, including an extended combination of nostalgia and melancholy in November Memories dedicated to the poet Margherita Guidacci, and an evocation of the spirit of Gesualdo in The Prince of Venosa. The sheer variety of his guitar music is further represented in the expressive Preludes and Fantasias, the technical demands of the Île-de-France Variations, and the pedagogical but intriguingly atonal Ten Simple Preludes.

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