Frank Wallace - his own new works

Track Listings
1. The pilgrim's road    
2. Sand and Sky    
3. In the shadow of the church/The gift    
4. Etude 7    
5. Prelude    
6. Adagio and Chorale    
7. Fugue    
8. Prelude 1    
9. Prelude 4    
10. Prelude    
11. Pavane for a dying prince    
12. Complainte    
13. Estampie    
14. Cantiga    
15. Zar    
16. Prelude and Fantasy    
17. Rhapsody    
18. Meditation    
19. Blues too    
20. Suite Blues    

Editorial Reviews
(Classical Guitar)

"The concert by Frank Wallace was a veritable tour de force."

Frank Wallace - his own new works, Music, Frank Wallace, Frank Wallace, Original compositions for guitar: always passionate, sometimes raucous, the tender moments will make you weep. Laced with harmonic and rhythmic echoes of the Middle Ages to the blues.
Frank Wallace - his own new works
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • The Best Guitarist You've Never Heard
  • Exciting New Music from Frank Wallace, Guitarist & Composer
 Frank Wallace - his own new works

Manufacturer: Gyre
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004XS6E
Release Date: 2000-08-21

Tracks:

  1. The pilgrim's road
  2. Sand and Sky
  3. In the shadow of the church/The gift
  4. Etude 7
  5. Prelude
  6. Adagio and Chorale
  7. Fugue
  8. Prelude 1
  9. Prelude 4
  10. Prelude
  11. Pavane for a dying prince
  12. Complainte
  13. Estampie
  14. Cantiga
  15. Zar
  16. Prelude and Fantasy
  17. Rhapsody
  18. Meditation
  19. Blues too
  20. Suite Blues

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars The Best Guitarist You've Never Heard.......2000-11-19

Frank Wallace's new CD of original compositions reflects a wide range of incluences melding together into a truly unique compositional style. Wallace takes Medieval and Renaissance polyphony, marries them with 20th Century harmony, and even throws a little blues in as well. His formidable technique not only allows him to play fast intricate passages cleanly and articulately, but also to reveal all the color and beauty of the simplest melody. This CD was recorded in a local church here in NH with a single stereo pair of Schoeps microphones, and the result is outstanding. Close your eyes while listening, and you'll get the feeling of watching a master musician play in a Renaissance Cathedral. I highly recommend this CD to anyone who loves the sound of a classical guitar.

5 out of 5 stars Exciting New Music from Frank Wallace, Guitarist & Composer.......2000-11-16

This disc gives us compelling new music in the tradition of the performer-composer. I say tradition because Mr. Wallace's compositions are based on inspirations and models that have been used since the fifteenth century right through the present day. The earliest compositions for solo lute and vihuela de mano (both instruments that Wallace performs on, though not on this album)contain examples of arrangments or fantasies based on songs that were in the popular culture. Frank Wallace's new CD does that by including music based on a Shaker song as well as Blues based compositions. This CD can also be heard as being in the vein of the great 19th and early 20th century century guitarist - composers. Frank's Etude 7 , played on a 100 year old Manuel Soto Y Solares guitar gives listeners a deep though short melodic experience. I am sure that a student learning this piece would develop a more intimate relationship with her or his instrument by virtue of the work done to express this poignant melody. The music on this CD is highly polyphonic and extremely energetic in places. At other times the mood is tender and reflective. The total production is very much under the artist's control - from composition to performance through recording engineering and graphic presentation. This CD is first-rate and represents the best of today's Classical guitar tradition.

Music Track:

  1. Franz Lehár: Piano Sonatas and Fantasie
  2. Frescobaldi: Toccatas & Partitas Book 1
  3. Giuseppe di Stefano: Unreleased Jewels
  4. Glass: Glassworks for Piano Solo [Import]
  5. Handel: Salomo, The Oratorio [Box set]
  6. Historical Baroque Organs of Luxembourg
  7. Il Combattimento Di Tancredi E Clorinda
  8. Intabulatura for Organ
  9. Ives: Symphony No2; Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915 Op24
  10. Johann Joseph Fux: Il Fonte della Salute

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