Wherever I Go Gunter Herbig

• Arvo Pärt (b. 1935): My Heart is in the Highlands (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar):
• 1Pärt: My Heart is in the Highlands (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar)08:59
• Für Alina (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar):
• 2Pärt: Für Alina (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar)04:27
• Most Holy Mother of God (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar):
• 3Pärt: Most Holy Mother of God (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar)03:49
• Magnificat (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar):
• 4Pärt: Magnificat (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar)07:15
• Da pacem Domine (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar):
• 5Pärt: Da pacem Domine (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar)05:03
• Psalom (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar):
• 6Pärt: Psalom (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar)04:04
• Pari intervallo (Arr. G. Herbig for Prepared Electric Guitar):
• 7Pärt: Pari intervallo (Arr. G. Herbig for Prepared Electric Guitar)07:02
• Solfeggio (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar):
• 8Pärt: Solfeggio (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar)03:58
• Für Alina (Arr. G. Herbig for Prepared Electric Guitar):
• 9Pärt: Für Alina (Arr. G. Herbig for Prepared Electric Guitar)04:29
• Fratres (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar):
• 10Pärt: Fratres (Arr. G. Herbig for Electric Guitar)11:23
• Total Runtime01:00:29

Info for Wherever I Go

Gunter Herbig's meditative e-guitar albums have become cult objects far beyond the classical music scene. After 'ex oriente' with arrangements of piano music by Gurdjieff/de Hartmann (BIS Records) and the Villa-Lobos album 'Tristorosa' (Aldilà Records), he has now taken on the iconic music of Arvo Pärt on his Gretsch White Falcon. He has transcribed vocal and instrumental pieces of various sizes and settings in tablature for the guitar, as has been the custom since the 14th century in order to reproduce polyphonic works on the solo instrument. Not only does the music gain an incomparable breadth and atmospheric liveliness through the resonance of the electric guitar as well as through the possibilities of subsequent shaping of the sound; at the same time, Arvo Pärt's music resounds here completely pure and simple, reduced to the essential, magical in its eremitic power, as close to silence as we already know from Herbig's Gurdjieff album, and as perhaps only Gunter Herbig is able to manifest in this way combining inner warmth and outer beauty.

Gunter Herbig, electric guitar

Gunter Herbig
was born in Brazil and grew up in Portugal and Germany. Influenced by such different cultures and aesthetic languages, he has developed a highly personal, charismatic and expressive style of playing and performance, which sets him apart from his contemporaries. The balance of Brazilian sensuousness, intense Portuguese passion and German intellect and finesse are the hallmark of his playing. His performance and interpretation philosophy centres on the personal and subjective approach to music as a direct way to create a connection between the composer, the performer and the audience, and focuses on a sense of musical adventure and exploration. His dynamic and expressive sense of adventure has made him an audience favourite on the concert platform wherever he goes and has solicited universal praise from critics in the international music world. In his distinguished teaching career, he led the guitar department of Auckland University for over twenty years and was the head of chamber music at the New Zealand School of Music in Wellington.

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