Contrastes Records

28/06/2025

🎧✨ Great news from France Musique!
The album KITHARA by Greek guitarist Sotiris Athanasiou, released by Contrastes Records, has been featured on the "Guitare, Guitares" show as one of the season’s sunny ballads ☀️🎸

An international recognition we are truly proud of.
Congratulations, Sotiris!

📻 Listen here:
🔗 https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/guitare-guitares/quelques-ballades-ensoleillees-les-coups-de-coeur-de-la-saison-3237296



🎧✨ Great news from France Musique!
The album KITHARA by Greek guitarist Sotiris Athanasiou, released by Contrastes Records, has been featured on the "Guitare, Guitares" show as one of the season’s sunny ballads ☀️🎸

An international recognition we are truly proud of.
Congratulations, Sotiris!

📻 Listen here:
🔗 https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique/podcasts/guitare-guitares/quelques-ballades-ensoleillees-les-coups-de-coeur-de-la-saison-3237296

"Ballade au soleil ! Aujourd’hui, on va voyager en Grèce, passer par la Sardaigne, Écouter du jazz ..." Sébastien Llinarès

07/11/2024

https://www.canalsur.es/multimedia.html?id=2096422&jwsource=cl

02/11/2024

Crítica de Juan Vergillos publicada en el Diario de Sevilla sobre el concierto que Ramon Amador nos brindó ayer en el Espacio Turina dentro del XV Festival de la Guitarra de Sevilla

El Festival de la Guitarra de Sevilla se consolida como un espacio para la guitarra flamenca de

02/11/2024

Contrastes récords en el Festival de la Guitarra de Sevilla.

01/11/2024

Artículo del concierto de ayer del Cuarteto de Guitarras de Andalucía publicado en el
Diario de Sevilla por Andrés Moreno Mengibar 😊

A los cinco años desde su creación,

22/10/2024

https://www.abc.es/queplan/sevilla/conciertos/festival-guitarra-sevilla-dedica-antonio-machado-contara-20241022135605-nts.html

Una de las novedades es que se celebrará uno de los conciertos en el monasterio del Loreto de Espartinas

22/10/2024

Ya está disponible en todas las plataformas digitales el fantástico disco del guitarrista japonés, IO YAMADA. Ganador del Concorso Pittaluga 2023. No os lo podéis perder! Aquí os pasamos el enlace a Spotify.

+ info: www.contrastesrecords.com

https://open.spotify.com/album/57Ud3X43cZktuS1fzC10cq?si=ZDcl1vofTeOnNaT8WM4UmA

“Sublime albums that are objects of beauty in themselves… made of beautiful black & white pictures that suggest mystery.” 

22/10/2024

Ha salido en el último número de Hispanica Lyra, revista de la Soc. de la Vihuela, una larga reseña muy elogiosa de nuestro último CD de Valderrábano. Enhorabuena John Griffiths!
😀

+ info aquí:
https://www.contrastesrecords.com/silvadesirenas

19/10/2024

Queridos amigos,
Dentro de unos días dará comienzo el XV FESTIVAL DE LA GUITARRA DE SEVILLA "Hoy es siempre todavía" y será el próximo días martes 22 de octubre en el Salón Carlos III de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de Santa Isabel de Hungría a cargo de la guitarrista japonesa NENE YOKOMURA con un programa muy atractivo para todo el público. Es de entrada libre hasta completar aforo y podrán apreciar, además, la belleza de un lugar histórico como es la Casa de los Pinelo. ¡No os lo perdáis!

Os adjuntamos un video de Nene Yokomura como aperitivo de su recital. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEOFKtpzHec

Saludos y feliz fin de semana,
Francisco

16/08/2024

Review cd SILVA DE SIRENAS with John Griffiths in the review Lute News. Bravo John!
more info: https://www.contrastesrecords.com/silvadesirenas

01/08/2024

https://www.contrastesrecords.com/deioncho

One of the lasting musical achievements of Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) was his liberation of the guitar from its traditional stylistic boundaries. Whether done consciously or not, his guitar music recorded here, the Douze Études and his five Préludes, marks a turning point in the repertoire and future horizons of the instrument. It was probably little more than the happy conjunction of many disparate elements and influences, rather than a conscious attempt to change the path of history.

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Villa-Lobos was born in Rio de Janeiro into a large, middle-class family. His father was an amateur musician and it was through him that Heitor began his musical activities, initially as a cellist. Family circumstances, including the premature death of his father, as much as his fascination with Rio’s popular music scene, led him to become involved performing in theatres and restaurants as a cellist and guitarist. He had taught himself guitar by the time this activity began in his teens. It was this experience that directed him towards the incorporation of urban popular styles into his later compositions for the concert hall and gave him a familiarity with the guitar that would give him incomparable guidance in forging his later compositions.

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As a composer, Villa-Lobos was initially self-taught, drawing on diverse experiences from two distinct musical worlds, much more strongly separated by socio-economic class than is the case today. Villa-Lobos is also alleged to have travelled to vatious rural and uncultivated regions of Brazil during the decade before World War I and to have begun his activity of gathering indigenous and folk music in the areas he visited. As his personality as a composer began to take shape, he was assimilating music from the European classical tradition alongside indigenous musical sounds and the emerging urban popular music that superimposed elements from countless imported traditions upon music of European salons.

John Griffiths

One of the lasting musical achievements of Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) was his liberation of the guitar from its traditional stylistic boundaries. Whether done consciously or not, his guitar music recorded here, the Douze Études and his five Préludes, marks a turning point in the repertoire and...

26/04/2024

IO Yamada perform the beautiful "Por tí mi corazón" by Manuel M. Ponce recorded in the Contrastes records´studio in Burguillos (Sevilla) for Contrastes Records as winner of the 2023 Pittaluga International Guitar Competition in Alessandria (Italy)

"Por ti mi corazón" Manuel M. Ponce. Io Yamada, guitarrecording in Contrastes records' studio in Burguillos (Sevilla) as a winner of the 2023 Pittaluga Inte...