★★★★★
The members of the LAGQ come to the ensemble with eclectic musical tastes: John Deaman honed his skills playing Chet Atkins tunes; Bill Kanengiser was a follower of the prog-rock band Yes; Scott Tenant was an avowed flamenco fan; and Andrew York dabbled in styles from bop to grunge before taking a serious look at classical music. It's no surprise, then, that the four pay homage to guitarists past and present whose musical orbits extend way past the classical world...
- www.classicstoday.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
Anyone who loves guitar music and appreciates virtuosity times four--in the form of the impressive mastery of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet--will love this CD, whose program features works and arrangements that capitalize on the instrument's associations with and natural compatibility for Spanish and Latin American musical styles...
- www.classicstoday.com
2010-08-27
★★★★★
CDs of Latin music for solo guitar are as common as tacos at a Mexican restaurant, and multiplications of that formula (for two, three, four, or more guitars) are hardly unusual. Many such CDs fail for basic reasons: either the music is not all that interesting, there isn't a great deal of variety built into the program, or both. Another common problem is the use of arrangements that bleed the originals of their life, or that are simply silly. LAGQ Latin is a happy exception...
- www.classical.net
2010-08-23
★★★★★
When one thinks of groups comprised of four guitarists, it is of competitive situations where electric guitarists attempt to top each other with speed and volume. The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet is quite different for this band, comprised of four lesser-known but talented players, features acoustic guitarists who interact closely with each other and often seem to think as one...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
On Spin, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet offer a completely approachable and pleasant but still intelligent and often complex program of pieces by living composers, among them several members of the group...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet -- nominally lumped into a catch-all classical guitar category -- pays affectionate tribute to a gallery of its members' idols here, with a selection that sweeps across the stylistic board. These players (John Dearman, William Kanengiser, Scott Tennant, and Andrew York) grew up in the phonograph generation, and their inspirations seem to come from anywhere and everywhere, and they are not shy -- nor should they be -- about picking from such a wide range of heroes...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
A great concept and a grand conceit, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet's disc entitled Guitar Heroes is a disc of radically rearranged and reimagined adaptations, transcriptions, and extrapolations of the quartets' players own favorite guitar players. The arrangements are tremendous, the transcriptions are terrific, and the extrapolations are amazing...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
★★★★★
When one thinks of groups comprised of four guitarists, it is of competitive situations where electric guitarists attempt to top each other with speed and volume. The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet is quite different for this band, comprised of four lesser-known but talented players, features acoustic guitarists who interact closely with each other and often seem to think as one...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-28
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