John Goulart

Recordings Catalogue

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Malagueña

 

A recording by John Goulart (which also features Karen J. Minish soprano). This award winning CD has received extensive airplay across Alberta on CBC and CKUA Radio. It features popular solo guitar works as well as the classical voice and guitar repertoire.

 

ARIA Award Winner! Best Specialty Artist 1999

Alberta Recording Industries Association

 

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Malaguena (4:52) Ernesto Lecuona

Habanera (3:57) Georges Bizet

Prelude No. 1 (5:00) Heitor Villa-Lobos

Registro (2:11) Antonio Lauro

Para Ninar (2:05) Paurillo Barroso

Caçador (2:05) Laurindo and Edgard Almeida

Azulão (1:40) Manuel Bandeira/Jayme Ovalle

Boi-Bumba (1:49) Valdemar Henrique

Romance (3:33) Anonymous

Mozart Variations Op. 9 (8:40) Fernando Sor

Summertime (2:42) Du Bose Heyward/George Gershwin

Recuerdas de l'Alhambra (4:14) Francisco Tarrega

Danny Boy (3:36) Traditional

Con Te Partiro (3:58) Lucio Quarantotto/Francesco Sartori

Ave Maria (2:36) Bach/Gounod

Sweet Little Jesus Boy (3:03) Robert MalGimpsey

Ain't That Good News (1:15) William Dawson

Asturias (6:34) Isaac Albeniz

 

 

 

ARIA Winner!

Best Classical Artist

Alberta Recording Industries Association

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Toward The Millennium (IBS 1035)

A Collection of 20th Century Music Volume 1

Andrew York: Sunburst

Manuel deFalla: Homenaje “le Tombeau de Debussy”

Joaquin Rodrigo: Invocation et Danse, Fandango

Frederico Moreno-Torroba: Madronos

Frank Martin: Quatre Pieces Breves

Leo Brouwer: El Decameron Negro

Joaquin Turina: Rafaga, Sonata, Homenaje a Tarrega, Fandanguillo

“There is not an unmusical moment in this entire disc... a superb collection of 20th Century works... the playing by this fine young Canadian artist is effortless, cheerful and often insightful.” John Schneider • Soundboard Magazine

 

Shortlisted for a JUNO Nomination

Nominated for an ARIA (1998)

Take 2 (IBS 1031)

Music for Two Guitars

Gioachino Rossini: Overture to the Barber of Seville

Fernando Sor: Divertimento Op. 5, No. 1

J.S. Bach: Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring

Manuel deFalla: Spanish Danse from “La Vida Breve”

Claude Debussy: Arabesque No. 1

Astor Piazzolla: Lo Que Vendra

Enrique Granados: Spanish Danse No. 4 “Villanesca”

Isaac Albeniz: El Puerto from “Iberia”

Joaquin Rodrigo: Minueto Pomposo & Allegro Vivace from “Tonadilla”

 

Best of 1995 Releases - CKUA Radio

Nominated for an ARIA (1997)

Intimate Recital (IBS 1025)

J.S. Bach: Prelude BWV 1006a, Preludes BWV 1009 & 1007

Chaconne BWV 1004, Prelude & Fugue BWV 999 & 1000

Fernando Sor: Marlboro Variations Op. 28

Isaac Albeniz: Mallorca

Frederico Moreno-Torroba: Sonatina (2nd Movement)

Augustin Barrios: La Catedral

“Goulart’s version of the mighty Chaconne is a major improvement over the Segovia setting. The Spanish pieces by Sor, Albeniz and others are delivered with a robust sense of poetry and the exotic... amid the many pleasures on this album.” Richard Todd • Ottawa Citizen