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Guitarist David Russell just keeps getting better and better. He was already a fully formed virtuoso with a clear, warm tone and an effortless technique when he made his major-label debut on Telarc in 1995. And as this 2008 disc called Air on a G String shows, Russell has deepened and mellowed as he's matured. Featuring four works by Johann Sebastian Bach, four by François Couperin, six by Sylvius Leopold Weiss, and an eight-movement suite by Jacques de Saint-Luc, Russell's choice of repertoire is balanced between the well known and unfamiliar, and it is all the more interesting because of it. With his digital independence and his uncanny ability to sustain a legato line on a plucked instrument, Russell's technique remains impeccable. But as he has aged, his interpretations have become more musical and less technical. Russell's Bach -- a probing Partita in A minor, BWV 1013; a sublime Adagio/Arioso from Cantata No. 156; a shadowy Pastorale in F major, BWV 590; and a blissful Air from the Suite in D major, BWV 1068 -- sounds sympathetic not just to the music's supreme intellect but to its soulful spirituality. Russell's selections by Weiss and the Suite by Saint-Luc are graciously engaging, but better yet are his three selections from Couperin -- especially his otherworldly Les Barricades Mistérieuses, which seems to float out of the strings of the guitar. Captured in clear, immediate digital sound by producers Elaine Martone and Maria Jesus Rodriguez, this disc will please technophiles as well as Russell's fans.
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Silvius Leopold Weiss, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Silvius Leopold Weiss, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Silvius Leopold Weiss, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Silvius Leopold Weiss, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Silvius Leopold Weiss, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Silvius Leopold Weiss, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jacques-Alexandre De Saint-Luc, Composer - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jacques-Alexandre De Saint-Luc, Composer - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jacques-Alexandre De Saint-Luc, Composer - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jacques-Alexandre De Saint-Luc, Composer - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jacques-Alexandre De Saint-Luc, Composer - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jacques-Alexandre De Saint-Luc, Composer - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jacques-Alexandre De Saint-Luc, Composer - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Jacques-Alexandre De Saint-Luc, Composer - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
François Couperin, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
François Couperin, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
François Couperin, Composer - David Russell, Guitar, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - David Russell, Arranger, Guitar, Work Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Todd Brown, Asst. Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Blakemore, Editor, Mastering Engineer, StudioPersonnel - Benjamin Jacobs, Editor, StudioPersonnel - Elaine Martone, Producer, Recording Producer - Thomas Knab, Recording Engineer, StudioPersonnel - María Jesús Rodríguez, Producer, Assistant Producer
℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
Album review
Guitarist David Russell just keeps getting better and better. He was already a fully formed virtuoso with a clear, warm tone and an effortless technique when he made his major-label debut on Telarc in 1995. And as this 2008 disc called Air on a G String shows, Russell has deepened and mellowed as he's matured. Featuring four works by Johann Sebastian Bach, four by François Couperin, six by Sylvius Leopold Weiss, and an eight-movement suite by Jacques de Saint-Luc, Russell's choice of repertoire is balanced between the well known and unfamiliar, and it is all the more interesting because of it. With his digital independence and his uncanny ability to sustain a legato line on a plucked instrument, Russell's technique remains impeccable. But as he has aged, his interpretations have become more musical and less technical. Russell's Bach -- a probing Partita in A minor, BWV 1013; a sublime Adagio/Arioso from Cantata No. 156; a shadowy Pastorale in F major, BWV 590; and a blissful Air from the Suite in D major, BWV 1068 -- sounds sympathetic not just to the music's supreme intellect but to its soulful spirituality. Russell's selections by Weiss and the Suite by Saint-Luc are graciously engaging, but better yet are his three selections from Couperin -- especially his otherworldly Les Barricades Mistérieuses, which seems to float out of the strings of the guitar. Captured in clear, immediate digital sound by producers Elaine Martone and Maria Jesus Rodriguez, this disc will please technophiles as well as Russell's fans.
© TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 24 track(s)
- Total length: 01:01:23
- Main artists: David Russell
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Telarc
- Genre: Classical
© 2008 Telarc International Corp. ℗ 2008 Telarc International Corp.
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