Most arrangements for guitar are in the nature of reductions. The Aquarelle Guitar Quartet cheekily open their celebration of the music of Spain with one that's exactly the opposite, an upscaling of a guitar work (Sor's Grand Solo, Op 14) by Sergio Assad. Then it's off to 19th-century Russia for William Kanengiser's reworking in multi-guitar terms of the orchestral colours of Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio espagnol. One of the pleasures of this disc is the way the players sound like they're having fun with their material, but the temperature drops for David Roe's arrangement of Albéniz's extended piano piece, La Vega. And, in the one original work on the disc – US composer Ian Krouse's Folias – I wasn't won over by the blending of minimalism and Spanish flavour. Very much a disc of two halves. url.ie/f1f2