 | Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez
Buy used from: $3.81 Essential Spanish repertoire, performed by the greatest guitarist
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 | The Guitarist John Williams
Buy used from: $1.55 More modern, with an Eastern flavor. Koyunbaba and Stele are the standouts
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 | Bach: The Four Lute Suites
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $2.50 Some prefer an authentic lute performance, but Williams' stark, yet sensitive performance lets Bach's music speak for itself without excessive ornamentation.
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 | Guitarra: The Guitar in Spain
Buy used from: $5.98 Great collection of early music pieces, with some 20th century classics for good measure
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 | Bach: The Six Sonatas and Partitas by Paul Galbraith (Performer) Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer)
Buy new: $26.98 / Used from: $5.00 More Bach, played on a guitar with a more lute-like range to better hear separation of voices. The famous Chaccone is way too slow, but the rest of this 2-disk set is incredible.
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 | Music of Barrios
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $9.76 Barrios is essential guitar music, and David Russell does a great job on this difficult music.
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 | Rondo alla Turka
Buy used from: $12.50 A classic for the Mozart transcription, but the Handel, Brouwer are fantastic, too!
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 | Steve Kostelnik, Laureate, 1996 GFA Competition: Guitar Recital
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.49 Nice (cheap!) collection. The Bach transcription is great and equal to Russell's famous baroque cd, but this also has Campanas del Alba (and it's cheap)
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 | Leo Brouwer: Guitar Music, Vol. 1
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.55 One of my favorite composers. Volume 2 has been released, but is more atonal in nature.
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 | Villa-Lobos: The Complete Solo Guitar Music
Buy used from: $10.19 More essential stuff. Another definitive recording.
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 | Guitar Music Vol. 2
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $6.95 Ponce wasn't Segovia's favorite composer for nothing. The harpsichord on the couple of tracks adds great flavor.
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 | Lauro: Venezuelan Waltzes for Guitar
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $5.99 More essential Latin music
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 | Andrés Segovia: A Centenary Celebration
Buy used from: $3.54 No collection is complete without Segovia.
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 | Sometime Ago
Buy used from: $14.33 Very 20th century. Very easy to listen to, yet memorable long term.
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 | Nuages - Solo Guitar Works by Django Reinhardt
Buy used from: $20.00 Great stuff from one the best guitarist/composer around today. Another great is Dusan Bogdanovic who's "Mysterious Habitats" is also essential, but not offered at Amazon.
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 | Labyrinth
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.98 More modern music, but this stuff is so much fun, it's not difficult to listen to.
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 | Saga dos Migrantes
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.22 The Assads may be the best duo on the planet. This is more Latin stuff. Two others to look for are: Carlos Barbosa Lima "plays Bonfa & Porter" and Jorge Morel "The Very Best of..."
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 | Natsu No Niwa Suite
Buy new: $19.98 / Used from: $11.99 Another Assad cd. Essential, probably not. Beautiful music, definitely.
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 | Riley: The Book Of Abbeyozzud / Tanenbaum, Silverman, et al
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.98 Very interesting cd. Great unusual music.
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 | David Tanenbaum
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $7.74 Non-essential modern music
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 | L.A.G.Q.
Buy used from: $3.99 Not very classical, and even too "world music" at times, but I find I keep putting it in the cd player. Not essential, but interesting to see where the genre can go
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