Quatuor Éclisses: Guitar quartet with power

The late, great Andrés Segovia once likened the classical guitar to "a small orchestra" for its huge range of coloristic effects. But it's probably wise not to take the analogy too literally; the operative word here is "small," and compared with an actual orchestra, the guitar has all the power of a bag of kittens. Transcribing big symphonic works to its delicate, miniaturist scale is fraught, as they say, with peril.