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...Fantasia-Sevilliana by Joaquin Turina, Fisk's instrument immediately filled the Gardner's tapestried concert hall with its booming sound. The Turina, a work from this century, evokes traditional images of bull-fighting and Spanish dancing. Luigi Boccherini carried these ideas back to Italy more than a century before with his own guitar works...
While one of Boccherini's guitar quintets features castanets, Turina calls for percussive sounds created by tapping the face of the instrument. Fisk later extended the guitar's percussive role in his transcription of de Falla's Danza del Molinero from "El Sombrero de Tres Picos"; by adding a strummed tone to his tapping, Fisk achieved a startlingly bell-like effect. He also created ringing harmonics by manipulating the resonant lengths of the strings...
John Major, guitarist, in recital. Works of De Falla, Martin, Norman, Fricker Turina. Free. Saturday, March...
Bach, Italian Concerto, English Suite No. 2, French Suite No. 6, Fantasia in C Minor (Pianist Alicia de Larrocha; London, $5.98). Once best known for her exquisite interpretations of fellow Spaniards like De Falla, Turina and Granados, De Larrocha has been cutting a new Continental image for herself in recent years. That includes some scintillating Chopin and Mozart, and now this disk, which is breathtaking in its dramatic separation of contrapuntal lines, ravishing ornamentations and sheer pianistic delight...
...program of Turina, Beethoven and Chopin, Bialoguski had his moments of stiffness, and his technique was limited by the tendency of his left arm to mirror the movements of his right. But even by professional standards, his clear, straightforward performances were adequate; by any other standards, they were remarkable. He got five curtain calls, plus a scattering of cheers from some of his patients, who had rented...