{"product_id":"duarte-complete-works-for-guitar-quartet","title":"Duarte: Complete Works for Guitar Quartet","description":"John W. Duarte was not only one of the  most prolific composers for the solo  classic guitar in the 20th century; he was  also concerned with the instrument in an  ensemble context. He made a lasting  contribution to the concept and musical  chemistry of the guitar quartet, a muchneglected feature until his innovations.  This area of his creative work proved  something of a goldmine for both  professional quartets and educational  settings where the guitar was taught as a  serious instrument, worthy of deep study,  and indeed for Summer Schools  worldwide. In this the composer offered  arrangements and original works of taste  and delicacy, a hitherto unprecedented  development in the expanding repertoire  of the guitar.  This fourth instalment in Brilliant Classics'  series dedicated to the vast and precious  guitar oeuvre of John W. Duarte provides a  complete survey of the composer's music for  four guitars. This sub-set of his guitar music is  in itself greatly varied in style but of  consistently superb quality. Disc one contains  music he originally composed for this  ensemble, and disc two features his  arrangements (many of them of his own  compositions) for guitar quartet.  Duarte explained that his own stylistic  eclecticism derived from improvisation, with  composition being a slower form of  improvisation benefitting from time to  reconsider and to refine the product: 'What  one hears becomes translatable into \"playback\" action and\/or, given a knowledge of  musical theory, comprehensible. It can  provide a direct route to eclecticism - one  may adopt what one chooses into one's own  bloodstream and bypass what one feels  foreign to one's own nature. For this reason I  have never had one immediately identifiable  style and have happily lived with a wide  variety of idioms.'","brand":"Brilliant Classics","offers":[{"title":"CD","offer_id":49704740225304,"sku":"5028421964430","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0687\/4346\/3192\/files\/4344100-3187708_a1111c66-6178-4be0-9195-849280f501f3.jpg?v=1777503404","url":"https:\/\/hbdirect.com\/products\/duarte-complete-works-for-guitar-quartet","provider":"HBDirect","version":"1.0","type":"link"}