Composer: Tekla Badarzewska-Baranowska, Ferdinand Beyer, Henry Rowley Bishop, Alphons Czibulka, Justin Holland, Alphonse Leduc, Alfred Pease, W.H. Rulison
Performer: Christopher Mallett
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Naxos
Catalogue: 8559924
Release: 2023
Size: 1.16 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Pease: Delta Kappa Epsilon, Grand March
02. trad.: The Last Rose of Summer
03. trad.: Spanish Fandango
04. trad.: Benedette sia la madre
Beyer: Soirées musicales, Op. 109
05. No. 7, Last Waltzes of a Madman (Arr. J. Holland for Guitar)
06. Bishop: Home, Sweet Home
07. Badarzewska-Baranowska: The Maiden’s Prayer, Op. 4
08. Rulison: Rochester Schottisch
09. Czibulka: Stephanie-Gavotte
10. Holland: An Andante in C Major
11. Pease: Antoinette Polka Mazurka
12. Leduc: Pearls of Dew, Polka Mazurka
13. Holland: Variations on L. Mason’s Nearer, My God, to Thee in E major
14. trad.: Carnival of Venice, Fantaisie
Justin Holland was an African American, born free in Norfolk, Virginia. He was the most influential and important American guitarist of the 19th century and wrote the first published and best-selling guitar method in the country. He was also a leading voice in the anti-slavery and civil rights movements. As a composer he synthesized European models and embraced popular, church and parlor songs generating a rich variety of works. A master of virtuosic variations, his arrangements are witty, elegant, and colorful, and culminate in Carnival of Venice, which shows the full range of his gifts, sweeping in breadth and dazzling in effect.