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The Dance Album / Kristo Kao

Kao,Kristo
Release Date: 03/24/2009 
Label:  Cd Baby   Catalog #: 330155  
Composer:  Jean Baptiste BesardVincenzo GalileiJohn DowlandJohann Sebastian Bach,   ... 
Performer:  Kristo Käo
Number of Discs: 1 
Recorded in: Stereo 
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Kristo Käo is an Estonian guitarist, tutor and researcher. He is the author of the unique guitar method book "Guitar School - the key to the practical guitar playing" and founder of the web-based music school Kitarrikool.eu.

Kristo graduated from the Estonian Academy of Music as a classical guitar soloist (BA 2002, lector Heiki Mätlik, MA 2006, associate prof. Mait Martin). He has also studied at the Carl Nielsen Academy of Music in Denmark (2001, prof. Jan-Inge Wijk, associate prof. Jesper Sivebaek) and has studied in masterclasses as an active participant with Kari Äikäs, Hannu Annala, Juan Antonio Muro, Per Skareng, Miguel Angel Jimenez, Nikita Koshkin, Luis Quintero, Ana Vidovic, Scott
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Kristo Käo plays the guitar made by an Estonian luthier Viljar Kuusk (2003)
Recorded: New Apostolic Church of Keila (Estonia) from 4th to 6th September 2007
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Works on This Recording

1. Branle gay by Jean Baptiste Besard
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
Period: Renaissance 
Notes: This selection also includes a Saltarello by Vincenzo Galilei. 
2. Mellancholy Galliard, P 25 by John Dowland
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
Period: Renaissance 
Written: England 
3. Suite for Lute in E minor, BWV 996: 5th movement, Bourée by Johann Sebastian Bach
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
Period: Baroque 
Written: Weimar, Germany 
Notes: This selection also includes a Gigue by Silvius Leopold Weiss. 
4. Las Folias d'España, Op. 15a by Fernando Sor
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
Period: Romantic 
Written: by 1823 
5. Cantos de España, Op. 232: no 1, Preludio [Asturias, Op. 47 no 5] by Isaac Albeniz
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
Period: Romantic 
Written: 1896; Paris, France 
6. Fandanguillo for Guitar, Op. 36 by Joaquin Turina
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1926; Spain 
7. Malaguena in F major by Francisco Tarrega
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
Period: Romantic 
Written: Spain 
8. Memorias de Chiquinha by Edmar Fenicio
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
9. Waltzes (6) for Guitar, Op. 8: no 3 in A minor by Agustín Barrios Mangoré
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: circa 1919; Paraguay 
10. Suite populaire brésilienne, W 20: no 4, Gavotte Chôro by Heitor Villa-Lobos
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
Period: 20th Century 
Written: 1908-1912; Brazil 
11. Danza Brasilera by Jorge Morel
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
Period: 20th Century 
12. Minoorne Labajalg by Traditional
Performer:  Kristo Käo (Guitar)
Written: Estonia 

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