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Angel Romero: Classical Virtuoso Masterworks for Guitar (Angel; $6.98); Spanish Virtuoso Romantic Music for Guitar (Angel; $6.98). At 29, Romero belongs to the new generation of guitar virtuosos. But the Spanish-born musician is no stranger to the concert hall; along with Brothers Celin and Pepe, Angel has been appearing with Papa Celedonio Romero's family quartet since he was six. Angel's Spanish guitar music vibrates with the heroic digital work and high coloration associated with the repertory. He peels off Tarrega's Chopinesque Estudio Brillante in a fiery burst of romanticism. He can be soft...
...best guitar ensembles around. Celedonio, 45, opened with a generous sampling of the literature for the classical guitar-Galilei, Sanz, Bach, Sor, Albéniz. His sound was lushly colored, his touch always impeccable, his readings alive with an extraordinary range of nuance not often found in the guitar. Celin, 24, followed his father-again with classical selections, but in a mistier, more rhapsodic vein. Angel, 14. offered a limber, clean-lined performance of the Bach Chaconne from Partita Number Two. Pepe, 18, whipped through a selection of flamenco songs with remarkable fire and dexterity, thrumming out the music...
...Romero sons sound much like Romero senior. "His hand and our hands are just the same," explains Celin. "If it's good for him, it's good for us." More important, Celedonio got his sons their first guitars when they were three, had them in the concert hall by the time they were eleven. Four years ago, an American studying with Celedonio in Spain persuaded the family to move to California, where they soon set up a guitar school. As for the profits, Romero senior has a patriarchal concept of money: he takes all of it, doles...
After a morning of playing the guitar and a day of teaching it, the Romeros get together in the evening to play a little more. And to fight. Says Celin, the most voluble: "We fight with our father more than we fight with each other because he has a strong temperament and likes to command. In the end we do it his way. Then we get happy." So do the audiences...
...small cast maintains the cheerfully precise manner that Britain seems to expect of her theatrical children. Roland Culver, as Philip, seems the most competent, and is assured enough a comedian to risk being an unobtrusive straight man when the libretto so demands. But his colleagues, Anne Vernon and Celin Gordon, are certainly more than adequate, and the cast's measure of excellence is the smooth mesh of the three parts into a gently round of risque chuckles...
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