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Doug MacLeod Between Somewhere and Goodbye

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Between Somewhere and Goodbye

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Reference Recordings proudly presents our 6th release with the outstanding, multi-Blues Music Award winner Doug MacLeod — Between Somewhere and Goodbye! Available now for pre-order and pre-save via listn.fm/somewheregoodbye [in bio link]

🙌 The fourth and final volume in Roberto Moronn Pérez's Andrés Segovia Archive Series is now available worldwide! Grand Finale showcases outstanding performances of works that are fundamental milestones of the guitar repertoire of the 20th century. Listen now: listn.fm/segoviagrandfinale

🎉 Fanfare Declares Roberto Moronn Pérez’s Grand Finale is “Not To Be Missed”! Out Friday, May 23: listn.fm/segoviagrandfinale [in bio]

Three tracks #nowplaying before Friday's new release from Roberto Moronn Pérez — Grand Finale: Andrés Segovia Archive. Listen now at listn.fm/segoviagrandfinale

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Federico Mompou (1893–1987) is one of the Spanish composers of greatest international renown. His combination of objective skill, intellectual clarity and his use of colour

“Skeen’s crisp, impeccable execution and elegant phrasing are aligned with a keen sensitivity to Bach’s vast spectrum of emotions and colors. Each prelude is phrased with a rapt intensity, setting the stage for the suite’s ensuing dances. And whether those dances are of a playful variety, or permutations of the more contemplative sarabande, Skeen realizes an appropriate tempo, inflection, and color.… these are renditions brimming with life. But for me, the most striking aspect of Skeen’s playing is the arrestingly beautiful sound he achieves with what the cellist describes as “instruments and bow (that) are historically appropriate to the standards of the early 18th century.” … Producer Lolly Lewis and her team “took advantage of the studio’s enormous sonic capabilities” and created a setup and mix that Skeen “felt approximated not only what he actually hears when he plays, but what he wants to hear when he plays.” The recorded sound is not only gorgeous; it has arresting visceral impact.… Enthusiastically recommended.” —Ken Meltzer, Fanfare

Composer Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and Andrés Segovia met in 1932, stayingn friends throughout their lives, and contributing to Castelnuovo-Tedesco publishing a large number of pieces for guitar. Listen to Roberto Moronn Pérez's recording of the third movement from his Guitar Sonata today via listn.fm/segoviagrandfinale and hear how it brings together Mediterranean brightness, immediacy, freshness, vigour, richness of musical ideas, melodies full of lyricism, and pervasive color.