Empty Houses Canadian Guitar Quartet

• Patrick Roux (b. 1962): Prologue, Fougue et Allegro trépidant:
• 1 Roux: Prologue, Fougue et Allegro trépidant: I. Prologue 02:41
• 2 Roux: Prologue, Fougue et Allegro trépidant: II. Fougue 07:25
• 3 Roux: Prologue, Fougue et Allegro trépidant: III. Allegro trépidant 03:13
• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Sonata sopr'il soggetto reale for Flute, Violin and Basso Continuo (Transcr. Cowan, Ducharme, Habib, Trépanier for Guitar Quartet):
• 4 Bach: Sonata sopr'il soggetto reale for Flute, Violin and Basso Continuo (Transcr. Cowan, Ducharme, Habib, Trépanier for Guitar Quartet): III. Andante larghetto 02:32
• 5 Bach: Sonata sopr'il soggetto reale for Flute, Violin and Basso Continuo (Transcr. Cowan, Ducharme, Habib, Trépanier for Guitar Quartet): IV. Allegro 03:01
• Olga Amelkina-Vera (b. 1976): Pulsar:
• 6 Amelkina-Vera: Pulsar 05:35
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791): Sonata for 2 Pianos in D Major, K. 448 (Arr. Trépanier for Guitar Quartet):
• 7 Mozart: Sonata for 2 Pianos in D Major, K. 448 (Arr. Trépanier for Guitar Quartet): I. Allegro con spirito 08:44
• Renaud Côté-Giguère (b. 1974): Empty Houses:
• 8 Côté-Giguère: Empty Houses: Empty House 1 02:57
• 9 Côté-Giguère: Empty Houses: Empty House 2 04:16
• 10 Côté-Giguère: Empty Houses: Empty House 3 01:30
• 11 Côté-Giguère: Empty Houses: Empty House 4 03:11
• Luiz Bonfá (1922 - 2001), Antonio Carlos Jobim (1927 - 1994): Areias Brancas, Orfeu Negro (Arr. Trépanier for Guitar Quartet) (after Orfeu Negro):
• 12 Bonfá, Jobim: Areias Brancas, Orfeu Negro (Arr. Trépanier for Guitar Quartet) (after Orfeu Negro): Prelúdio 06:11
• 13 Bonfá, Jobim: Areias Brancas, Orfeu Negro (Arr. Trépanier for Guitar Quartet) (after Orfeu Negro): O Nosso Amor 05:46
• 14 Bonfá, Jobim: Areias Brancas, Orfeu Negro (Arr. Trépanier for Guitar Quartet) (after Orfeu Negro): A Felicidade 04:16
• Total Runtime 01:01:18

Info for Empty Houses

Das Canadian Guitar Quartet (CGQ) präsentiert sein neues Album Empty Houses auf ATMA Classique.

Auch wenn es im Laufe der Jahre personelle Veränderungen gab, ist das CGQ seiner Kernaufgabe treu geblieben: Kammermusik auf höchstem Niveau, die eine solide Mischung aus klassischen Meisterwerken in raffinierten neuen Arrangements und kühnen Originalwerken für Gitarrenquartett präsentiert - meist aus der Feder früherer und heutiger Mitglieder des Ensembles.

Die Mission des Canadian Guitar Quartet spiegelt sich in Empty Houses wider, einem Album, das Transkriptionen von Werken von Johann Sebastian Bach und Mozart, ein zeitgenössisches Werk von Olga Amelkina-Vera und zwei Werke ehemaliger Gruppenmitglieder vereint: Empty Houses von Renaud Côté-Giguère und Prologue, fougue et allegro trépidant von CGQ-Gründungsmitglied Patrick Roux. Zum Abschluss des Albums entführt uns Louis Trépanier, ein Gründungsmitglied, das immer noch zum Ensemble gehört, mit Areias Brancas, Orfeu Negro (White Sands, Black Orpheus) in die Rhythmen des Bossa Nova, mit berühmten Themen aus dem Soundtrack zum Film Orfeu Negro.

Canadian Guitar Quartet:
Steve Cowan, klassische Gitarre
Jérôme Ducharme, klassische Gitarre
Christ Habib, klassische Gitarre
Louis Trépanier, klassische Gitarre

Canadian Guitar Quartet
Since its debut in 1999, the Canadian Guitar Quartet has toured extensively in North and South America, from one standing ovation to the next, establishing a reputation as one of the finest guitar ensembles in the world. The CGQ has appeared with orchestra across Canada, and has recorded three critically acclaimed CDs.

The quartet has been broadcast on both CBC and Radio-Canada, has had a special performance feature on Bravo! Television, was featured in the webcast at Chicago’s Northwestern University, on CBC’s overseas networks, and in various international magazines. The CGQ’s first concert at the 92Street Y in New York, part of the Art of the Guitar series, was extremely well received. Don Witter Jr., of the New York Classical Guitar Society, wrote: “The Canadian Guitar Quartet made one of the greatest New York City Debuts of any artistic ensemble in decades … STUNNING !!!”.

Concerts in some of Canada’s most prestigious concert halls, such as the Winspear Center, the Palais Montcalm, the Glenn Gould Studio, and National Gallery of Canada, as well as their performances in seminal events such as the Guitar Foundation of America’s annual convention, Yale’s Guitar Extravaganza, the Norfolk and Ottawa chamber music festivals, have allowed the Canadian Guitar Quartet to develop an international reputation. The mix of dynamic original music and classical masterpieces make a CGQ concert an unforgettable experience.

Booklet for Empty Houses