Julian Bream Edition (Complete)

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Binding: Audio CD EAN: 0090266158324 Format: Box set Label: RCA Manufacturer: RCA Number Of Discs: 28 Publisher: RCA Release Date: 1993-08-10 Studio: RCA
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Too beautiful for words Comment: If Julian Bream's recordings were letters, his would all be hand written rather than typed. Customer Rating: Summary: Guitar History Comment: Julian Bream not only plays the guitar, and the lute (although purists and I suspect Bream himself would say rather unconventionally), but most of all, Bream plays MUSIC. This is very, very important. There are many fine guitarists around today, but I doubt any could match Bream's sheer musicality when these recordings were made. This 28 CD box set is a lesson in music making, regardless of what instrument is being played. The recordings are the complete RCA Bream catalogue from 1959 to 1989. If you can find the complete box set or even any of the individual volumes, I suggest you make the purchase. (Shame on RCA and BMG for not keeping this box set and "all" the individual volumes in print.) Some of the higlights of Breams remarkable talent are his interpretations of Britten's "Nocturnal", Walton's "Five Bagatelles", the instrumental and vocal works (with tenor Peter Pears) of Dowland, the "first" complete guitar works of Villa-Lobos, a thorough history of the guitar in Spain from the Renaissance to the Present on period instruments, plus all the works that have become classical guitar standards by Bach, Sor, Giuliani, Albeniz, Rodrigo, plus the "new" standards by Brouwer, Arnold, Berkeley, Britten, Walton, etc. Music making of this caliber is rare indeed. Buy it if you can find it. Good Luck ! Customer Rating: Summary: Best deal there is! Comment: If you can find this set buy it fast. There are not to many of these left out there. This has it all. Plus Julian Bream is the greatest guitarist of all time. Customer Rating: Summary: Most excellent Comment: This a an wonderful collection of Julian Bream. He is the master of master . I always admire his talent as a genius of this centure. Customer Rating: Summary: Julian Bream, The Genius Comment: Who don't want to have a wonderful classical guitar collection? Well, this pack consists in 28 CDs, more than 1.000 minutes of music, distribuited by different titles as Baroque Guitar, Spanish Guitar, etc. Some highlights are here, like Asturias, Fernando Sor variations on Mozart's Magic Flute, Paganini Grand Sonata, all Preludes and Etudes of Villa-Lobos, and, well, lots of really good things. Also, there are some cds Julian Bream plays Guitar with Orchestra, or with Harpsichords. Ah, he plays lute in some too. Unfortunately, there are 2 or 3 cds where a tenor sings and another which a woman says some poems, and those, in my opinion, are not very nice. So, it's a good collection, and if you can, buy it!! More Reviews