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CD Reviews

Writing has been my hobby for many years. Consequently, I write Fantasy novels, I produce “anniversary stories” on a regular basis and I add score descriptions, guitar festival reports, Guitarities and other impressions to the DOS Amigos Homepage.

Part of the guitar festival records is a description of the competitions, both preliminaries and finals. An activity that comes very near to reviews, because I always give my opinion about the pieces and their performance. That’s why I thought “Would CD reviews be a valuable addition to the DOS Amigos Homepage?” At least it would be a nice fitness training for a writer annex guitarist.

A Review. What’s that? The Merriam Webster dictionary describes it as “a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)”.

That sounds heavy indeed! Often it is, because many people consider a review incomplete without critique in the negative sense. When you review a CD, this partly is too late in the day, because the musician has delivered his or her effort and all is recorded in digital data. It is quite impossible to correct a CD right away! The only option you have is re-release, like John Williams excellently did with Augustin Barrios’ music. I must notice, however, that there is half a life of time and musical experience between the original and the retry!

I do not want to write acid critical reviews. For instance, with the competition reviews I refrain from negativism and nitpicking. Yet I do give a personal opinion, I will not leave that. So, in the CD review case I am more inclined to write a story, about how I came across the CD, what the recording meant for me and how the music affected me.

“Sheer arrogance!” might be your comment by now. OK, I did not study musicology, let alone journalism. I did not study music on a professional level. The only things I have got are my love for the guitar –I play this instrument myself on a moderate level, the DOS Amigos Homepage bears witness to that-, my ears and my heart. Those are the things I work with.

My plan is to write reviews of the CDs of my own collection on this site. That will be a long term project indeed, because I have a nice collection of guitar music.

A CD Review will have a few standard components. Of course, I will mention the CD title, the musician(s) and some technical data that come from the sleeve text right away. I plan to make a little scan of the cover, so you can recognize the CD on Internet or in the shop. The last component will be my story about the recording. Initially I wanted to give a track listing too, but I dropped that plan, it takes a lot of screen space and Internet provides ample opportunity to find data yourself.

On this page, you will find a growing menu with my CD reviews. Click the link and you will be there.

Happy Reading!

CD Reviews

  • Alma de uma Terra
  • Aurora
  • Cancion
  • Haitian Suite
  • Jewish Music
  • Lute Music from The Netherlands
  • Maestro Series: Pavel Kuhkta
  • The Debut
  • The Four Lute Suites
  • The Woods so Wild
  • Together
  • Vienna Guitar Recital
  • Maestro Series: Jakob Bangsø
  • Alberto Mesirca: Chanterelle Guitar Anthology
  • Flor de Amor: La Parada
  • Maestro Series: Justyna Sobczak
  • Guitar Music by Women Composers
  • The Guitar in Spain
  • Eric Lammers plays Annette Kruisbrink
  • Ta’ Mig Med, songs of Kim Larsen
  • Ernest Shand: Guitar Music
  • Annette Kruisbrink: Raga Style
  • CD Reviews

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