Reverie 

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"What a revelation this CD is! It is definitely one of my favorites of the year."–Blair Jackson, Classical Guitar Magazine

 

Available as a physical disk or MP3 digital download. 

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With Reverie, classical guitarist Candice Mowbray offers a beautiful program of modern and twentieth-century French works by Laurent Boutros, Arnaud Dumond, Erik Satie, Francis Poulenc, Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya as well as popular melodies by Edith Piaf and Claude Nougaro. With many works related by homage, the pieces seem to share an inner connectivity and provide a coherent listening experience from beginning to end. Recorded at Commodore Studios in Thurmont, MD.

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Reviews:

Classical Guitar Magazine: Album Releases

Classical Guitar Magazine: 10 Favorite Classical Guitar Discs of the Year

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Track Listing and Composers:

 

Laurent Boutros (b. 1964)

1. Vals for Atom, to Giorgio Albiani  

2. Chanson Trilce  

3. Les échelles du Levant 

 

Erik Satie (1866-1925)

4. Gnossienne, no. 1 (arr. Dyens) 

5. Gymnopédie, no. 1 (arr. Mowbray) 

 

Pieter van der Staak (1930-2007)

6. Bellefleur: Valse française, pour Arnaud Dumond  

 

Arnaud Dumond (b. 1952)

Cinq hommages français

7. Cinq hommages français: Hommage à Couperin, Passacaille sur "La mort de Didon" de Purcell  

8. Cinq hommages français: Hommage à Francis Poulenc, Sarabande en choral

9. Cinq hommages français: Hommage à Darius Milhaud, La création du train  

10. Cinq hommages français: Hommage à Debussy  

11. Cinq hommages français: Hommage à Ravel, Comme un hommage... 

 

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)

12. Sarabande pour guitare, to Ida Presti 

 

Ida Presti (1924-1967)

13. Etude du matin  

14. Etude, no. 2 from Six études pour guitare  

15. Danse rythmique, pour A. Lagoya         

 

Alexandre Lagoya (1929-1999)

16. Rêverie, á Ida Presti 3:46

 

 

Edith Piaf (1915-1963) et Luis Guglielmi (1916-1991)

17. La vie en rose 

 

Claude Nougaro (1929-2004)

18. Le jazz et la java (arr. Tisserand) 

 

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Recorded at Commodore Recording Studio, Thurmont, MD www.commodorestudio.com

 

Recorded, Edited, Mixed and Mastered by Doug Benson

 

Artwork by Lee McIntyre ​​​​​​

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