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Julian Bream

Guitarist
Teacher

Repertoire/Discography

Julian Bream Recordings

Bream has recorded extensively for RCA and EMI Classics. These recordings have won him several awards, including four Grammy Awards, two for Best Chamber Music Performance and two for Best Classical Performance.^[2] RCA also released The Ultimate Guitar Collection, a multi-CD set commemorating his birthday in 1993.

From the beginning of the 1990s Julian Bream continued his recording career with EMI Classics, featuring music by J.S. Bach, a Concerto album (with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Sir Simon Rattle), and discs devoted to contemporary works and guitar sonatas.

Despite his importance as a classical guitarist, however, many of his RCA recordings (including the series of 20th century guitar music) are currently out of print.

Pieces written for Julian Bream (in chronological order)

Reginald Smith Brindle Nocturne for Guitar Solo (1946)
Reginald Smith Brindle El Polifemo de Oro (1956)
Lennox Berkeley Sonatina, op. 52, no. 1 (1957)
Tristram Cary Sonata (1959)
Malcolm Arnold Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra, op. 67 (1959)
Benjamin Britten Nocturnal after John Dowland, op. 70 (1963)
Richard Rodney Bennett Impromptus (1968)
Tom Eastwood Ballade-Phantasy (1968)
Peter Racine Fricker Paseo (1969)
Reginald Smith Brindle Variants on two themes of J. S. Bach (1970)
Richard Rodney Bennett Guitar Concerto (1970)
Malcolm Arnold Fantasy, op. 107 (1971)
Alan Rawsthorne Elegy (1971)
William Walton Five Bagatelles (1972)
Humphrey Searle Five (1974)
Lennox Berkeley Guitar Concerto, Op. 88 (1974)
Hans Werner Henze Royal Winter Music (first sonata, 1976)
Giles Swayne Suite (1976)
Peter Maxwell Davies Hill Runes (1981)
Michael Berkeley Sonata in One Movement (1982)
Richard Rodney Bennett Sonata (1983)
Michael Tippett The Blue Guitar (1984)
Leo Brouwer Concerto elegiaco (Guitar Concerto No. 3) (1986)
Tōru Takemitsu All in Twilight (1987)
Leo Brouwer Sonata (1990)

Partial discography

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20th Century Guitar, RCA LSC-2964
70's, RCA ARL 0049
Dedication, RCA ARL 5034
A Bach Recital for the Guitar, Westminster CLP 1929
Baroque Guitar (1966), RCA
Collection of the Greatest Performances of Julian Bream, Vol. II, Westminster
Concertos for Lute and Orchestra, RCA ARL1-1180
Dances of Dowland, RCA LSC-2987
Elizabethan Lute Songs, RCA LSC-3131
Elizabethan Music by The Julian Bream Consort, RCA LSC-3195
The Golden Age of English Lute Music, RCA LSC-3196
Julian & John, RCA
Julian Breams Greatest Hits, Westminster
Julian Breams Greatest Hits Volume Two, Westminster 9008-8185
Lute Music of John Dowland, RCA ARL1-1491
Music for Voice and Guitar with Peter Pears, RCA LSC-2718
Popular Classics for Spanish Guitar, RCA
Rodrigo: Concerto De Aranjuez, Berkeley Guitar Concerto (1975), RCA
Sonatas for Lute and Harpsichord—Bach, Vivaldi with George Malcolm, RCA LSC-3100
Villa-Lobos, Twelve Etudes for Guitar, Suite populaire bresillienne (1978), RCA
The Woods So Wild, RCA LSC-3331

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