Increasingly in-demand guitarist and lutenist James Akers makes his Resonus solo debut with a stunning album of works for romantic guitar. Akers provides a captivating program of works, consisting almost entirely of world premiere recordings, by guitar legends from continental Europe. Featuring Mauro Giuliani & Luigi Legnani (from Italy), Fernando Sor (from Spain), and Johann Kaspar Mertz (from Hungary), this seductive album draws the listener into the magical, diverse, Scottish influences that bewitched each of these 19th-century composers.

Tracklist:

Variations On A Favourite Scottish Air, Op. 40
Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, Woo: I. The Soldier’s Return
Variations On Rossini’s ‘la Marcia’ (From La Donna Del Lago)
Prelude And Scotsoises (1)
Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, Woo: V. Blue Bells Of Scotland
Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, Woo: IV. Jenny’s Bawbee, A Reel
Bardenklange, Op. 13: III. Fingal’s Cave
Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, Woo: III. Coming Through The Rye
Prelude And Scotsoises (2)
Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, Woo: II. This Is No My Ain Lassie
Variations On Rossini’s ‘oh Quante Lagrime’ (From La Donna Del Lago)
Sei Arie Nazionali Scozzesi, Woo: VI. The Old Country Bumpkin

UPC: 5060262790694
Label: Resonus Classics
Release Date: 5.6.16
Format: CD

James Akers - Soldier's Return (Jewl) (CD)