Review by Colin Clarke<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n SHADES IN BLUE \u2022 Celia Linde, Carlos Barbosa-Lima 1 (gtr); Gustavo Colina 2 (cuatro) \u2022 PROPRIUS 2085 (49:29) LINDE Epilogue. Contemplation. Fontainebleau. China Impression. 1 Imelda\u2019s Waltz (arr. Barbosa-Lima). 2 Rumba Surprise (arr. Colina). BROUWER Guajira Criolla. Danza Caracteristica. MONTA\u00d1A Porro. ESCOBAR Chopi. CANTELOUBE (arr. Yasui) 1 O\u2019Bailero. GUBAIDULINA Serenade. J\u00d6NSSON Light Shadows\u2026Blue. MYERS (arr. Yasui) 1 Cavatina.<\/p>\n Rather strikingly, Swedish guitarist Celia Linde begins her disc with an Epilogue<\/em> of her own invention. (The piece is referred to both as \u201cEpilogue\u201d and \u201cEpilog,\u201d the former in the composer\/performer\u2019s own notes, the latter on the disc back cover track listing.) Beautifully contented music, both it and the tenderly improvisatory Fontainebleau<\/em> are dedicated to Django Reinhardt and were inspired by a Reinhardt Festival in Fontainebleau, and also by a meeting with Django\u2019s son, Babik Reinhardt.<\/p>\n In Guarija Criolla<\/em>, Leo Brouwer takes a Cuban song by Jorge Anckermann and turns it into a moment of pure guitar musing; the mood is continued by Linde\u2019s own Contemplation<\/em>, with its beautifully pure harmonics. Brouwer\u2019s Danza caracteristica<\/em> is splendidly acerbic music: sounds with an edge.<\/p>\n China Impression<\/em> presents musical picture postcards from an overseas tour; the three heard here are the sixth to the eighth movements. The shades of pentatonicism are beautifully evoked, almost elliptically, in \u201cWinding Dragon\u201d (which actually displays on my compact disc player as \u201cMorning Ride to the Great Wall\u201d). The contrasting \u201cMountain Mist\u201d is gloriously performed with the utmost clarity and yet is fully evocative of its title, before a gentle homecoming in \u201cBeijing Return.\u201d<\/p>\n The final section of the recital alternates arrangements with original pieces. Linde\u2019s own Imelda\u2019s Waltz<\/em> is arranged by Barbosa-Lima for guitar duo (with herself as the other guitarist in the performance); intriguingly, the second guitar has a different tuning for the fifth and sixth strings, resulting in a rather dreamy atmosphere. If \u201cPorro\u201d from Gentil Monta\u00f1a\u2019s Suite Colombiana<\/em> seems a touch too na\u00efve, it acts as a nice interlude before Linde\u2019s Rumba Surprise<\/em>, in which Linde is joined by Gustavo Colina on cuatro (a Latin American stringed instrument that has a nicely contrasting sound here).<\/p>\n It\u2019s fascinating to have some music from Paraguayan composer Pablo Escobar. His Chopi<\/em> begins charmingly before embarking on a thrillingly virtuoso journey, beautifully realized here by Linde. There is a lovely, imaginative moment of muffled tapping which adds that extra something.<\/p>\n Many will be aware of Canteloube\u2019s Chants d\u2019Auvergne<\/em> through recordings by (for example) von Stade and te Kanawa. Here is an arrangement of the most famous of them, the \u201cB\u00e4ilero,\u201d fully evocative of a hazy, lazy Gallic afternoon. The juxtaposition of Canteloube and Gubaidulina must surely be unique, but this is an early work by the latter, her 1960 Serenade, enigmatic in utterance but not as yet particularly harsh or dissonant.<\/p>\n Playing music by her Swedish compatriot Reine J\u00f6nsson that she herself premiered in 2004, Linde gives a teasing, quasi-improvisatory account of Light Shadows, Blue<\/em>. The final track, labeled as a \u201cbonus track,\u201d is, like the Canteloube, arranged by Hawaiian composer Byron Yasui, this time from Stanley Myers\u2019s famous Cavatina<\/em>. (If you don\u2019t think you know it, trust me, you do, and you\u2019ll be humming along, just like I was.)<\/p>\n This is a splendid way to spend 50 minutes: Linde is a fine, accomplished guide to this repertoire. She began her studies in Sweden (Malm\u00f6) and in Copenhagen, but it was during a Master\u2019s course at Geneva that she worked with Segovia. Taking his advice, Linde traveled to New York in 1984, where she enrolled in a post-graduate program at the Manhattan School of Music. Her biography quotes a mysterious UK Musical Journal Opinion<\/em>, by which I take it is meant Musical Opinion<\/em>. 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