“It is truly fascinating how much temperament and emotion this only 20-year-old is able to put into his equally sensitive and impulsive guitar playing,
while with his nimble fingers he lets the notes on the six strings bubble along as refreshingly as the cascades of a refreshing waterfall in the gardens of the Royal Palace of Aranjuez”.
Passauer neue Presse on Leonard Becker’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” debut 2019
The guitarist Leonard Becker (*1999 in Deggendorf) is the winner of the Andres Segovia Competition 2021 in La Herradura (Spain). He released his debut CD on NAXOS in July 2021, presenting chamber music with guitar by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
In March 2019, Leonard won 1st prize at the international chamber music competition “Gerhard Vogt” for string quartet and guitar in Schweinfurt, Germany, together with a string quartet he assembled at the Munich Academy of Music. In November 2020, he was awarded 2nd prize at the Hannabach International Solo Guitar Competition in Augsburg.
The musician has already performed several times with orchestra. In the summer of 2019, Leonard performed Joaquin Rodrigo’s “Concierto de Aranjuez” together with the Pilsen Philharmonic Orchestra.
Leonard Becker is currently studying at the University of Music and Performing Arts Munich in the guitar class of Prof. Franz Halasz.
Leonard would like to establish with his music especially the concert guitar more in the classical music world and show people what unexpected abilities are in this instrument. Especially the combination of guitar with various other instruments is close to his heart. He is a big fan of the music of Steely Dan, Benjamin Britten and Franz Schubert.
Suite No.4 for lute,
E major BWV 1006a from Sonata No.1 for violin,
“Fuga” BWV 1001,
Prelude, Fuge Allegro BWV 998
Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
Variations on a Theme from Mozart’s Magic Flute Op.9
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)
Rossiniana No.1 Grande Ouverture
Emilia Giuliani-Guglielmi (1813-1850)
Variazioni su un tema di Mercadante Op.9
Francisco Tarrega (1852-1909)
“Lagrima”,
“Adelita”,
“Recuerdos de la Alhambra”,
“Maria”,
“Mazurka en sol”,
“Pavana”,
“El columpio”,
“Capricho Arabe”
Isaac Albéniz (1860-1909)
From “Suite Española” “Sevilla” and “Asturias (Leyenda)”
Joaquin Malats (1872-1912)
“Serenata Española”
Agustín Barrios (1885-1944)
“Un Sueño en la Floresta”,
“Una limosna por el amor de dios”,
“Choro de Saudade”
Manuel M. Ponce (1882-1948)
“Sonata Romántica”
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
5 Préludes,
12 Etudes
Lennox Berkeley (1903-1989)
“Sonatina”
William Walton (1902-1983)
5 Bagatelles
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
5 Piezas
Roland Dyens (1955-2016)
“Libra Sonatine”,
“Alba Nera”
Nuccio D ́Angelo (*1955)
“Due Canzoni Lidie”
Magnus Lindberg (*1958)
“Mano a Mano”
Leo Brouwer (*1939)
“El decameron negro”
Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)
“Tres piezas españolas”
Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970)
“Fantasia”
Concerts
Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829)
Concerto No.1 in A-major
Joaquin Rodrigo (1901-1999)
“Concierto de Aranjuez”
Chamber music
Luigi Boccherini (1743-1805)
“Fandango-Quintett” for string quartet and guitar
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
Songs (selection) for voice and guitar
“Arpeggione Sonate”
Manuel de Falla (1876-1946)
“Siete Canciones Populares”
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)
Quintet for string quartet and guitar
Fantasia for guitar and piano
Sonatina for flute and guitar
“Eclogue” for flute, cor anglais and guitar
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
“Histoire du Tango”
Eduardo Angulo (*1954)
“The Birds” for string quartet and guitar
Aaron Jay Kernis (*1960)
“100 Greatest Dance Hits” for string quartet and guitar
Radamés Gnattali (1906-1988)
“Sonata” for Cello and Gitarre
Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)
German folk songs (selection) for voice and guitar
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
“Sexteto Mistico”
Gallery
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