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Kiss The Guitar Player
Luigi Boccherini - Vernon Duke - Piet Souer - Steve Gray - Veli-Matti Halkosalm

Kiss The Guitar Player

Klimt!

Label: Challenge Classics
Format: CD
Barcode: 0608917233322
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Catalog number: CC 72333
Releasedate: 04-05-09
Boccherini should be posthumously very proud on this modern times result of a genre that he created more than 200 years ago, and so can be all people who participated in this breathtaking 2-years project.
  • Crossover at its purest
  • The most original guitar string quartet compositions since 1805 (death of Boccherini)!
  • No guitar solo plus string background, but real dialogues
  • All works except one newly composed for the very occasion
The Gustav Klimt String Quartet (Klimt!) is well-known among Dutch jazz musicians, pop singers and cabaret artists, and has contributed to countless cd productions. A primary goal of the quartet is to stimulate new music, and almost all the compo-sitions on the present album were written exclusively for this project.

The common cd formula of ensemble- with-soloist seemed too predictable. Instead, Klimt! asked no fewer than seven prominent guitar players working in the Netherlands to write a quintet, in order to portray a kaleidoscopic view of the Dutch guitar scene.

The rules were as follows: the new composition would be entirely in the idiom of the soloist. The only condition was that the strings not be used as background music; there must be a true dialogue between guitar and quartet.