Arcady Ivannikov - Guitar MusicBach's music is often described as indestructible, in the sense that no matter how it is performed, or in whichever arrangement, it's essential spirit survives. Therefore transcriptions of the Master's works are common, today as they were in Bach's time (Bach (1685 1750) himself was an ardent transcriber!). This new recording presents instrumental works by Bach transcribed for and played on the modern guitar. The selection includes works written

Grammy-nominated blues

a healthy back

" "Third Degree

Together with renowned scholar-pianist Robert Levin

and some titles are performed with a twisting tempo

each representing the most lethal forms of fighting from across the Eastern hemisphere

Das himmlische Leben (The Heavenly Life) which Mahler had composed some eight years earlier

Ten songs are from their first LP called St

among the most plausible candidates is Filiberto Laurenzi

it is rather one of the works through which Beethoven freed himself from the depression into which he had fallen after renouncing his 'Immortal Beloved'

trombonist Chris Pyne and percussionist Frank Ricotti

enigmatic miniatures and complex sonatas