Classical

I've started listening to classical music again. I first caught the classical bug in high school. Still have a lot of LP's. My CD collection is very small. But I hope to add more CD's this year. My favorite composers include Beethoven, Bruckner, Debussy and Bartok.

I also enjoy classical guitar music, especially the recordings of Ida Presti and Alexandre Lagoya. They are widely considered to be the greatest classical guitar duet ever. They were both talented musicians even before they married and embarked on a duo guitar career. Ida Presti, in particular, was special. When she was still young and studying with Andres Segovia, he was quoted as saying "I have nothing to teach her." That's how good she was. When she and her husband began their career as a duet, there was almost nothing written for two classical guitars. They spent a lot of their time transcribing material. Eventually some composers wrote music for two guitars. Presti and Lagoya gave hundreds of concerts and toured the world, before her untimely death at age 42. Equally sad is that there are very few Presti-Lagoya recordings in the catalogs now. If you happen to come across one of their albums, you might want to buy it. I think you'd like their music.