This album is the first to present an entire program of works by Debussy and Ravel, the greatest exponents of Impressionism in music, transcribed for two guitars. The arrangements bring new life to the rich canvas of sonorities and complex harmonies in these popular works. The reflective atmosphere in Debussy’s famous Clair de lune and special upper-harmonic effects in La plus que lente contrast with the ‘merry romp’ of the Golliwog’s Cakewalk and Ravel’s nod to Schubert in the Valses nobles et sentimentales.

TRACKLIST:

Ravel, Maurice

Miroirs: IV. Alborada del gracioso (arr. S. Goss for 2 guitars)
1. Alborada del gracioso

Debussy, Claude

Children's Corner (arr. T.A. Smith and R. MacDonald for 2 guitars)

2. Doctor Gradus Ad Parnassum

3. Jimbo's Lullaby

4. Serenade of the Doll

5. The Snow Is Dancing

6. The Little Shepherd

7. Golliwog's Cakewalk

Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune (arr. R. MacDonald and T.A. Smith for 2 guitars)

8. Suite bergamasque: III. Clair de lune

9. I. Modéré, très franc

10. II. Assez lent

11. III. Modéré

12. IV. Assez animé

13. V. Presque lent

14. VI. Assez vif

15. VII. Moins vif

16. VIII. Épilogue. Lent

Ravel, Maurice

Valses nobles et sentimentales (arr. T.A. Smith and R. MacDonald for 2 guitars)

17. La plus que lente

Deux Arabesques (arr. T.A. Smith and R. MacDonald for 2 guitars)

18. No. I. Andantino con moto

19. No. II. Allegretto scherzando

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Released 09/2016

Recorded & mastered at St. John Crysostom Parish, Newmarket ON Canada

Producer – Bonnie Silver

Producer, Engineer, Editor – Norbert Kraft