Burgess: Complete Guitar Quartets

Mēla Guitar Quartet

Composer and novelist, Anthony Burgess, was a unique creative artist whose dual mastery of music and literature resulted in a career strewn with an output of remarkable diversity. Burgess came into contact with the Aïghetta Guitar Quartet while living in Monte Carlo in 1986, and the sublime arrangements and original works in this recording were all composed for this ensemble. The three guitar quartets range from the well-crafted First Quartet intended as a homage to Ravel, while the Second and Third Quartets explore virtuoso technique alongside adventurous and at times haunting harmonies and polytonality.

trad.: Morceaux Irlandais (3)
Burgess, A: Guitar Quartet No. 1 'Quatuor en hommage à Maurice Ravel'
Burgess, A: Guitar Quartet No. 2
Burgess, A: Guitar Quartet No. 3
Holst: The Planets: Mercury
Weber: Oberon Overture