Guitar Music

🌫️ J.S. Bach – Guitar Music

(Luigi Attademo, Brilliant Classics – 1 LP, 33⅓ rpm, 180g Vinyl)

Some albums echo. This one ascends. Attademo’s approach is restrained, lyrical, and deeply respectful of Bach’s contrapuntal structures. The guitar becomes a vessel for intimacy, revealing the microdynamics of phrasing and the emotional fingerprint of each movement.

🎼 Typical Program Highlights

Selections often include:

• Lute Suite in E Minor, BWV 996 – reimagined with warmth and clarity
• Prelude, Fugue & Allegro in E-flat Major, BWV 998 – architectural and expressive
• Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major, BWV 1007 (transcribed) – spacious and melodic
• Violin Partita No. 2 in D Minor, BWV 1004: Sarabande & Gigue – introspective and rhythmic
• Chorale Preludes (arranged) – devotional and harmonically rich

The mastering is warm and detailed, ideal for revealing finger articulation, tonal decay, and polyphonic layering. Studio monitors will highlight the rubato, breath-like phrasing, and spatial realism that define Attademo’s interpretation.

Visually, the cover is poetic: a lone figure holding a ladder on a windswept hill beneath an overcast sky. It’s not just design—it’s metaphor. The ladder suggests aspiration, solitude, and the quiet climb toward transcendence—much like Bach’s music itself.