‘THE SEGOVIA LEGACY’ TO BE RECORDED BY BRITISH GUITARIST RAYMOND BURLEY

The latest signing to the Divine Art label is acclaimed British guitarist Raymond Burley who is to record a new album in homage to the great Andrés Segovia.

‘The Segovia Legacy’ is a programme of works written for and recorded by the great Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia (1893-1987), it also includes one piece composed by him. The recording features just a small portion of Segovia’s huge legacy but offers a very wide variety of musical styles.

Raymond Burley is one of Britain’s most experienced guitarists. As a soloist he has toured extensively throughout the UK, Europe, North and South America and the Far East, performed and recorded with many of England’s finest orchestras and appeared many times at London’s Wigmore Hall, South Bank Centre and Symphony Hall in Birmingham.

Raymond has given premieres of works by composers that include Stephen Dodgson, Bernard Stevens, Reginald Smith Brindle, Gilbert Biberian, Christopher Wright, John Duarte and James Patten. He has also worked in duo with guitarists Alice Artzt, John Mills, Clive Carroll, Gilbert Biberian, Giorgio Mirto, Gordon Giltrap, John Etheridge and John Feeley. Other partners include actress Dame Peggy Ashcroft, harpsichordist Gilbert Rowland, violinist Emanuel Salvador and keyboard player Rick Wakeman.

Raymond has directed masterclasses and guitar festivals in the UK, Vancouver, Ottawa, Toronto, Calgary, Seattle, San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Washington DC, New York, Princeton, Kowloon, Dublin, Bonn, Bremen and Lima. He also has numerous recordings and publications to his credit.

The album is to be recorded in early January 2021, and is likely to be released in the late spring of next year.

The Segovia Legacy (DDA 25212)

Program:

• Moreno Torroba: Eight ‘Castles of Spain’ 
• Roussel: Segovia, op.29 
• Ponce: 20 Variations on “Folia de España” and Fugue
• Segovia: Estudio Sin Luz
• Tansman: Cavatina
• Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Rondo op. 129