Various Composers - Guitar Canarios [Lafasciano]Domenico Lafasciano is certainly not a household name, but i believe he's quite big in his native Italy, i've never heard of him before, but i saw this disc in a second-hand shop for i think £5, the compositions looked off the beaten track, so i gambled my money, and it paid off!, there's some nice discoveries hidden on this disc.
I really enjoyed track 11 'Danza Mora' [Moorish Dance?] by Seigfried Behrend, the piece is quite doleful, there's this lazy chuggish march in the bass, that permeates throughout the piece, of which the melody plays over, very much full of dissonances, there's this fast tremolo episode in the middle [1:38-1:56], which gives the piece some nice variety, the second half of the piece has some slight variations, even a changing of key episode, it actually sounds like a lament rather than a dance, if you love Classical Guitar, then this piece is worth checking out, it's something you want to hear again and again.
I couldn't find the Behrend piece on YouTube, so here's Per-Olov Kindgren playing the Bach Prelude [BWV999] on YouTube, he plays it about half a minute slower than Lafasciano, and this actually adds to the piece, nice perfect speed.
