Arranger(s): Kukhta, Pavel
Artist(s): Kukhta, Pavel
Label: Naxos
Series: Laureate Series
Genre: Instrumental
Period: 20th Century; Contemporary
Catalogue No: 8.573577
Barcode: 747313357772
Release Date: 06/2016

Guitar Recital: Kukhta, Pavel - GORELOVA, G. / BROUWER, L. / RODRIGO, J. / GERHARD, R. / MORALES-CASO, E. / ASSAD, S. / DYENS, R.

This recital by the Belarusian guitarist Pavel Kukhta, winner of the 2015 Heinsberg International Guitar Competition, offers a diversity of composers from Belarus, Cuba, Spain, Catalonia, Brazil and France. The widely-ranging programme opens with the Baroque style of Galina Gorelova’s Castle of Mir, Leo Brouwer’s Afro-Cuban fusion of influences and the virtuosity of Rodrigo’s Toccata. Then we hear the unconventional timbres of Roberto Gerhard’s Fantasia and Eduardo Morales-Caso’s boundary-pushing fantasy on a garden at the Alhambra Palace. The programme ends with Sergio Assad’s meditation on Rio de Janeiro and Roland Dyens’ plaintive evocation of Cuban moods.

Tracklist

Gorelova, Galina
Kukhta, Pavel - Arranger
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
1The Castle of Mir (arr. P. Kukhta for guitar)04:46
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
2Preludio01:52
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
3Fuga03:10
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
Brouwer, Leo
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
4I. Güijes y Gnomos05:24
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
5II. Treno por Oyá05:46
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
6III. Burlesca del Aire03:49
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
7IV. La Risa de los Griots05:03
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
Rodrigo, Joaquín
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
8Toccata08:11
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
Gerhard, Roberto
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
9Fantasia04:28
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
Morales-Caso, Eduardo
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
10El Jardin de Lindaraja06:16
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
Assad, Sérgio
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
11Fantasia Carioca10:49
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
Dyens, Roland
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)
12Blue Montuno03:54
Kukhta, Pavel (guitar)

Total Playing Time: 01:03:28