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    • Joaquim Freire, guitar, plays Ponce, Villa-Lobos & Ginastera
    • Nicholas Daniel Oboe Alone
    • Susanne Mebes plays Manuel Ponce Guitar Solo Works
    • Evgenia-Maria Popova plays Ysaye Six Sonatas for Solo Violin op.27
    • Susanne Mebes plays Recital Catalan
    • Nicholas Daniel & Julius Drake play Finzi, Patterson, Howells
    • Joaquim Freire, guitar, plays Nobre & Villa-Lobos
    • The Daniel Trio play Rossini, Woolrich, Destenay, Gardner, Wilson
    • Marlos Nobre conductor & pianist, plays Marlos Nobre
    • Susanne Mebes & Joaquim Freire play Fugas y Fandangos for 2 guitars
    • Trio Ligeti play Dohnányi, Reger, Françaix
    • Susanne Mebes & Joaquim Freire play Espana La Musa for 2 guitars
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    • Susanne Mebes
    • Joaquim Freire
    • Susanne Mebes & Joaquim Freire
    • Nicholas Daniel
    • Julius Drake, piano
    • Evgenia-Maria Popova, violin
    • The Daniel Trio : Nicholas Daniel with Julius Drake and Joy Farrall
    • Marlos Nobre, composer, conductor, pianist
    • Trio Ligeti
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Susanne Mebes
guitar 

plays 
RÉCITAL  CATALAN
Llobet, Albéniz, Mompou & Asencio
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(first complete recording)

LC 44201​

​LUISTER​(Netherlands & Benelux)
Selection of the month «10 of 10»


DIAPASON (France)
***** 5 sur 5 Diapasons attribués



AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
«... Mebes is testimony to a new ​generation of playing that is reclaiming the guitar's soul. She is not 
only the best female guitarist playing today; she is one of the greatest 
guitarists to be heard, period.»

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RÉCITAL CATALAN  Music from Catalonia and Valencia
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ISAAC ALBENIZ Capricho Catalan & Cataluña  
MIGUEL LLOBET Tres Canciones Populares Catalanas & Scherzo-Vals
FEDERICO MOMPOU Cancion  
​VICENTE ASENCIO The Complete Works for Guitar  (First complete recording): Sonatina • Suite Mistica • Elegia • Dansa Valenciana (First recording) •
​Collectici Intim



LUISTER (Netherlands & Belgium)
Selection of the month «10 of 10 («unique»)»
«... the complete œuvre for guitar by Asencio does not quite fill a compact disc, yet its rather more philosophical than folkloristic expressiveness exceeds the little silver disc by far. Through the hands of Susanne Mebes piece by piece emerge as intimate minitures which I cannot get enough of. «Dipso», the second movement of the «Suite mistica and the only work Segovia ever confined to vinyl, is superior to any other interpretation whatsoever ...»

FANFARE
The Magazine for Serious Record Collectors (USA)
«Mebes's Recital Catalan allows her to give her lyrical impulse free rein. The program contains a few comparative rarities... The music of Vicente Asencio has virtually dropped out of the catalogue (it was never very well entrenched to begin with). He was born in Valencia, but gave Catalan titles to almost all of his compositions for guitar (his favorite instrument, though he himself was not a player)...
His music is often as ethnically colorful as that of Albéniz and Llobet, and wondrously idiomatic for the guitar. Hearing it for the first time, I am unable to understand why it is so poorly represented on disc. His musical language ranges from the wholly accessible ‹ the Sonatina in homage to Domenico Scarlatti... to the poignantly aphoristic and indeed, almost musically abstract Suite Mistica.
Mebes's sensitive and probing performances will go a long way toward redressing a discographic grievance... Warmly recommended.»

DIAPASON (France)
***** 5 sur 5 Diapasons attribués
« C'est un beau moment de guitare que nous offre là Susanne Mebes. Dans ces pages de compositeurs cartalans et valenciens, ... la jeune néerlandaise se révèle une très fine interprète... Avec sa technique fluide et élégante, à l'opposé de tout tape-à-l'œil, sa sonorité chaude et travaillée, il émane de son jeu une sensibilité qui s'accorde bien avec les oeuvres romantiques de Llobet (dont elle restitue à merveille les dons d'écriture et d'harmoniste) et le talent si mystérieux du discret compositeur valencien Vicente Asencio, dont nous tenons ici l'intégralité des œuvres pour guitare... CD courageux, inventif, rempli de belle musique et offrant un programme d'une rare cohérence...»
​Technique: 8 / La guitare est rendue de façon naturelle

AMERICAN RECORD GUIDE
​«Dutch new-comer Susanne Mebes, who blew me away with last year's Ponce disc (Léman Classics LC 42701) proves herself in a solid Catalonian recital. Llobet and Albéniz have enough elegance, wit, and rapture to sit proudly with Segovia's. And in a nod to the completist, Mebes has given us Vicente Asencio's entire guitar ¦uvre. A solid case is made by Mebes for re-assessing the Valencian composer (1908-1979) who is too often tossed aside in favor of better-known contemporaries such as Rodrigo. Asencio's music is subtler and more humane than Rodrigo's. Along with the expected nationalist threads are a serene and spiritual side that Mebes reads ideally…»




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  • Home
  • Catalogue
    • Susanne Mebes, guitar, plays Castelnuovo-Tedesco: GUITAR SOLO WORKS
    • Joaquim Freire, guitar, plays Ponce, Villa-Lobos & Ginastera
    • Nicholas Daniel Oboe Alone
    • Susanne Mebes plays Manuel Ponce Guitar Solo Works
    • Evgenia-Maria Popova plays Ysaye Six Sonatas for Solo Violin op.27
    • Susanne Mebes plays Recital Catalan
    • Nicholas Daniel & Julius Drake play Finzi, Patterson, Howells
    • Joaquim Freire, guitar, plays Nobre & Villa-Lobos
    • The Daniel Trio play Rossini, Woolrich, Destenay, Gardner, Wilson
    • Marlos Nobre conductor & pianist, plays Marlos Nobre
    • Susanne Mebes & Joaquim Freire play Fugas y Fandangos for 2 guitars
    • Trio Ligeti play Dohnányi, Reger, Françaix
    • Susanne Mebes & Joaquim Freire play Espana La Musa for 2 guitars
  • Artists
    • Susanne Mebes
    • Joaquim Freire
    • Susanne Mebes & Joaquim Freire
    • Nicholas Daniel
    • Julius Drake, piano
    • Evgenia-Maria Popova, violin
    • The Daniel Trio : Nicholas Daniel with Julius Drake and Joy Farrall
    • Marlos Nobre, composer, conductor, pianist
    • Trio Ligeti
  • About Us
  • Our Distributors & Online Order
  • CONTACT