Milos Karadaglic – Latino (2012) [Qobuz FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

Latino includes new arrangements for solo guitar and string orchestra of favourite Latin hits such as Gardel’s Por una cabeza (popular from the film Scent of a Woman), Piazzolla’s classics Libertango and Oblivion, and the folk hit Quizás, Quizás, Quizás.

Solo tracks include Villa-Lobos’s Prelude no. 1 (one of Milos’ signature tunes heard in many of his concerts around the world), beautiful tremolo pieces by the ‘Chopin of the Guitar’ Augustin Barrios, and the tango that defines the genre, La cumparsita.

2011 was a great year for Miloš Karadagliæ, he was Gramophone Magazine’s “Young Artist of the Year” and recipient of its Specialist Classical Chart Award. His Deutsche Grammophon debut album The Guitar (4779693), has sold over 150,000 copies worldwide.

‘. . . [an] excellent orchestra . . . Karadaglic is a guitarist of superior musical and technical gifts who allows his personality to sing through the music with taste and intelligence . . . [there is] much to enjoy here for the most discerning aficionados, such as a fresh, sensitive account of Barrios’s ‘Una limosna por el amor de Dios’ and a very sexy ‘Mazurka-Choro’ [by Villa-Lobos] . . . ‘Latino’ is just so good that it deserves the widest possible audience . . . I loved every minute of it. (Record Review / William Yeoman, Gramophone (London) / 01. August 2012)

“Innate poise and elegance that made you sit up and listen . . . A superbly inflected, impeccably judged rendition of Ginastera’s Sonata: a giant tapestry of sound combining luminous melancholy and bravura energy” (The Times)

Tracklist:
01. Piazzolla: Libertango
02. Morel: Danza Brasilera
03. Villa-Lobos: Prelude No.1 In E Minor For Guitar
04. Dyens: Tango en Skaï
05. Gardel: Por una cabeza
06. Cardoso: 24 Piezas sudamericanas-Milonga
07. Barrios Mangoré: Un Sueño en la Floresta
08. Brouwer: Un dia de noviembre
09. Farrés: Quizás, quizás, quizás
10. Savio: Cenas Brasileiras-Batacuda
11. Villa-Lobos: Suite populaire brésilienne-1. Mazurka-Chôrô
12. Piazzolla: Oblivion
13. Ponce: Scherzino Mexicano
14. Ponce: Sonata No.3-2. Canción. Andante
15. Matos Rodriguez: La cumparsita
16. Barrios Mangoré: Una limosna por el amor de Dios