CD INFO
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Equinox
ROSE 1009-CD (Released October 2006) Piazzolla, Johanson, Houghton, Takemitsu, Nicolella, Dumond |
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Equinox on iTunes
"Michael Partington's new CD keeps sneaking onto my CD player and forcing me to dance around the house to the tango rhythms of Astor Piazzolla's "Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas." The gifted Welsh-born, Seattle-based Partington has lots of other good stuff on "Equinox," some of it more serious (like Bryan Johanson's incantatory "Variations on a Finnish Folksong" and the Toru Takemitsu work of the album's title). Whatever Partington does is done with taste, style and the immaculate technique that makes it all sound easy."
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Sonatas and Partitas
ROSE 1007-CD Bach, Rodrigo, Sor, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Johanson |
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Sonatas and Partitas on iTunes
"Michael Partington plays on this disc with the kind of visceral excitement associated more with live performance than with recording. This is apparent from the first notes of the first track, Sor's Gran Solo, which gets an absorbingly dramatic interpretation… high-voltage performing style."
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Song and Dance
ROSE 1005-CD Dowland, Weiss, Ponce, Kleynjans, Giuliani, Torroba, Maxwell Davies |
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"…very well played, with an excellent feeling for harmonic tension and release… from the simple transparent purity to the complex contrapuntal lines… All are handled with equal ease. All things considered, this is a fine CD."
—John Ingwerson, Soundboard Magazine | |
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20th Century Guitar, Volume II
ROSE 1004-CD Berkeley, Bennett, Brouwer, Gilardino, Dyens, Johanson, Baker |
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20th C. Guitar, Vol. II on iTunes "…a worthy vehicle for Partington's considerable technical powers. A creditable release from a very able guitarist."—Paul Fowles, Classical Guitar Magazine | |
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20th Century Guitar
ROSE 1002-CD Torroba, Marin, Ponce, Koshkin, Britten |
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"…lyricism, intensity and clear technical command… Partington is an intelligent and articulate young guitarist, one to be welcomed without reservation."
—Chris Kilvington, Classical Guitar Magazine | |
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