Praised for his “smooth, rich and sweet sound and impeccable virtuosity”, guitarist Thibaut Garcia releases his second album on Erato, a recital of works composed and inspired by JS Bach. “Bach has been part of my life as a musician since the very start,” he says. Taking Bach's mighty Chaconne as his centrepiece, he ranges wide: from Gounod's much-loved ‘Ave Maria' and Villa-Lobos's Bachianas Brasileiras No 5 to music by Agustín Barrios Mangoré, Alexandre Tansman and the contemporary Serbian-American composer Dušan Bogdanović.