American-born classical guitarist, composer and author, Anthony GLISE has just signed a recording contract with AME records in France.
The record deal is for 3 CDs to be released during the 2006-07 season with an option for additional CDs in subsequent concert seasons including solo, chamber and concerto discs.
The first CD is slated for release this December and is titled “Virtuoso Variations for Guitar.” The CD features compositions from the Renaissance through the 21st-Century including a new recording of Glise’s own “Variations on Folias d’España” which is highlighted (along with free MP3 soundbites) on the Dutch website:
La Folia - A Musical Cathedral
The second CD, to be released in April, 2007, is being recorded in Lyon, France by Glise with noted British tenor, Timothy Watson. That recording features various 19th-Century Viennese works for voice and guitar performed by Glise on a period Johann Georg Staufer guitar built in 1828 - one of only 7 of this type of Staufer guitars known to exist. A majority of these compositions had been lost but were recently discovered by Glise at various State Archives in Vienna, Austria.
Glise had been bound by a highly restrictive record contract with a New York label for the past 10 years and with the lapse of that contract, his recording output is expected to surge dramatically over the next several years.