Elise Neumann, Bach & Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Music Review

Guitarist Elise Neumann was born in Rostock, Germany where she started playing cello at an early age and later moved to guitar. In 2008, she won the 1st prize “Premio Accademia Santoro” at the Concorso Internazionale di Chitarra – Omaggio and Joaquín Rodrigo in Italy. In 2011, she became the 1st prize winner at the International Agustin Barrios Guitar Competition in Nuoro, Italy. Her debut CD was released in 2012 on the label Brilliant Classics. She has now released her second album on Carpe Diem Records titled, Bach & Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Music. For her second solo album Neumann chose works by two very different composers, JS Bach and Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco. Both composers wrote music in the form of the suite, which Neumann plays with her much admired warm and profound tone on an instrument made by the famous Parisian guitar maker Daniel Friederich from 1969. Bach & Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Guitar Music has the perfect balance of player, instrument and space (Schloss Borbeck in Essen) that converge to form a perfect unity and deliver a natural, effortless and profoundly musical interpretation of these beautiful works. That’s the short of it!