Harris: Complete Works for Guitar

Albert Harris (1916–2005) was an English musician who worked in Hollywood for most of his life as an orchestrator, arranger and composer for several of the big film Studios and for such pop icons as Barbra Streisand, Roberta Flack and Cher. He was born in London and studied piano from age 6, becoming also a self-taught guitarist. His knowledge of the guitar enabled him in later years to compose pieces specifically for it (his Variations & Fugue on a Theme by Handel was recorded by Andrés Segovia). In the mid-1930s he began to make a name for himself as a session musician in London where he featured on many recordings, most notably as session guitarist with the Lew Stone band, his delicate but swinging improvisations enhancing many of Stone’s records during 1934/35. Harris came to New York in 1938 and started playing piano in big bands across the US then began studying at the NYU College of Music, where he earned a doctorate in 1944.

Composer: Albert Harris
Artists: Michele Di Filippo guitar

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Written in three movements, the Sonatina is one of the most emblematic pieces in Harris’s catalogue. Popular elements from his adopted land, linked to graceful writing attentive to melodic construction, make this guitar composition one of his best. The Suite was composed in 1972 and features seven dance movements with modern and elaborate harmonies similar to those of jazz, especially in the Waltz. Homage to Unamuno was written in 1972 in tribute to its dedicatee, a symbol of Spanish liberal thought and a high representative of Spanish literature. The short Intermezzo was included in a collection of compositions that appeared in the Classic Guitar Society’s periodical magazine, Guitar News, in 1952, and despite its brevity the elegance of Harris’s language remains. Perhaps the composer’s best-known guitar composition, together with the Sonatina, the Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Handel are dedicated to the great guitarist Andrés Segovia, who was the first to record it. The work is highly influenced by the Spanish guitarist’s style. In it Handel’s theme is treated with highly original variations that rapidly transform the material and its meaning. The three short Fantastic Dances, commissioned by the Guitar Foundation of America, were written in 1988, and although written in the same tuning they each present clearly different material and characters. The element that binds them is their brilliance and dynamism. They were composed as a compulsory piece for an international competition held that year.

Tracklist:
Albert Harris:
Sonatina:
00:00:00 I. Allegro moderato
00:03:22 II. Aria
00:05:43 III. Rondo
Suite:
00:10:14 I. Prologue
00:11:18 II. Pastorale
00:12:47 III. Song Without Words
00:14:24 IV. March
00:15:41 V. Waltz
00:16:45 VI. Ariette triste
00:18:14 VII. Finale and epilogue
00:19:45 Hommage to unamuno
00:23:23 Intermezzo
Variations and Fugue on Haendel’s Theme:
00:25:23 I. Theme
00:25:50 II. Variation I
00:26:55 III. Variation II
00:28:47 IV. Variation III
00:30:43 V. Variation IV
00:32:00 VI. Variation V
00:33:21 VII. Variation VI
00:35:05 VIII. Variation VII, fugue
3 Fantastic Dances:
00:37:19 I.
00:39:00 II.
00:40:08 III.


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