The Soldier's Return
Scottish Guitar Music
James Akers (romantic guitar)
To explore the charming world of the guitar’s first golden age, you won’t do better than this lovely disc
The Soldier's Return
Scottish Guitar Music
James Akers (romantic guitar)
Purchase product
To explore the charming world of the guitar’s first golden age, you won’t do better than this lovely disc
About
One Thing About This Album: 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.
Contents and tracklist
- James Akers
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- James Akers
- James Akers
- James Akers
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Awards and reviews
September 2016
To explore the charming world of the guitar’s first golden age, you won’t do better than this lovely disc
August 2016
Akers [imbues] the insouciant virtuosity of Legnani’s Variations on Rossini’s ‘Oh quante lagrime’, the wistful beauty of Giuliani’s Coming through the rye and the melancholic theatre of Mertz’s Fingal’s Cave with all the warmth, colour and expressive richness one could hope for
