The Intimate Bach - Laurindo Almeida

 

Fuga, from Sonata No. 3 in C

The Intimate Bach

Duets with the Spanish Guitar, Vol. 2

Laurindo Almeida

Virginia Majewski, Viola

Vincent De Rosa, French Horn (Mr. De Rosa plays the Conn model 8D horn)

Produced by Ralph O'Connor

Capitol Records SP 8582

1962

From the back cover: Laurindo Almeida, born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, came to the United States in 1947 to fulfill the multiple careers of concert, studio and jazz guitarist, composer and arranger. With the sensitivity of a virtuoso musician he combines the imaginative resourcefulness and devoted scholarship displayed on this and earlier Capitol albums. Virginia Majewski, who appeared with Heifetz, Primrose and Piatagorsky in an extraordinary chamber music series in Hollywood during the summer of 1961, is a prominent studio musician in the film capital, and has concertized as a soloist in her own right. Vincent De Rosa was a student of Peter Di Lecce in Chicago and Alfred Brain (uncle of Dennis Brain) in California, where he played in the Los Angeles Philharmoic before service in World War II. He is now much in demand about Hollywood for recording work with the world's finest symphonic conductors, as well as for films and "popular" music.

From Billboard - May 12, 1962: This album should be a must for serious classical collectors. It features guitarist Laurindo Almeida, along with violinist Virginia Majewski, and Vincent De Rosa on French horn on a selection of intimate Bach works. They include "Kumm Susser Tod," a deeply religious song, and the familiar "Jesu, Joy Or Man's Desiring," the chorale-fantasia. There are selections from the "Partita No. 1 in B Minor," and the complete "Partita in B Flat.: The compositions are performed excellently by the trio, and the sound is fine.

Komm Susser (with viola)

Fuga, from Sonata No. 3 in C for unaccompanied violin (guitar solo)

Sarabande And Double, from Partita No. 1 in B minor for unaccompanied violin (with viola)

Bourree And Double, from Partita No. 1 in B minor for unaccompanied violin (with viola)

Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring (with viola)

Partita In B Flat for harpsichord (with horn)

  Praeludium

  Allemnande

  Courante

  Sarabande

  Menuets I & II

  Gigue