Sor/ Bungarten - V1: Favourite WorksFernando Sor is probably only known to guitar enthusiasts today. The fact that his extensive oeuvre is hardly known beyond the etudes probably has to do with his renunciation of outward virtuosity while at the same time maintaining the highest technical standards. It takes a master like Frank Bungarten to lend glowing expressivity and delicate elegance to works that at first sight seem brittle. Sor does not make it easy for guitarists: where his

Gerard Pierron would be an antiques hunter

Ronnie and Roy

7 F sharp minor Trio opens with an expansive

German-born Handel

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From the mid 1940's to the early 1960's

and on this recording it is the Bach of Finnish violinist Jaakko Kuusisto we hear

the legendary Kris Needs and produced in association with MainMan

the Fireflies and Phil Spector's first masterwork

Bach / Kronenberg/ Zurich Chamber Orch - Pno Cons BWV 1052-1058

but also sharply futuristic

Francesca dedicated it to the Mantovan nobleman Luigi Gonzaga