LA GUITARRA ESPAÑOLA

Works by Milán, Guerau, Sor, Tárrega...

CD I [72:31]

VIHUELA

Luys de Narváez (c.1500-c.1555)
1 Cuatro diferencias de “Gúardame las vacas”
2 Passeavase el rey moro
3 Tres diferencias de “Guárdame las vacas”
4 Canción del Emperador

López (16th century)
5 Fantasía

Luys Milán (c.1500-c.1561)
6 Pavana II
 
Alonso Mudarra (1510-1580)
7 Pavana de Alexandre
8 Fantasía X que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico

BAROQUE GUITAR

Santiago de Murcia (c.1685-c.1732)
9 Giga
10 Cumbés

Francisco Guerau (c.1649-c.1717)
11 Marionas
12 Canarios

Gaspar Sanz (c.1640-c.1710)
13 Pavana al ayre español
14 Folías
15 Lantururú
16 Canarios

CLASSICAL-ROMANTIC GUITAR

Fernando Sor (1778-1839)
17 Andante maestoso
18 Andante expressivo
19 Introduction and variations on a theme of “The Magic Flute”, op. 9

CD II [64:10]

CLASSICAL-ROMANTIC GUITAR

Fernando Sor
1-7 Introduction and variations on the air “Marlborough”, op. 28
8 Andantino en re menor

Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856)
9 Ständchen (Mäßig, tempo rubato) (Schubert arr. Tárrega)
10 Lied ohne Worte

POST-ROMANTIC GUITAR

Francisco Tárrega (1852-1909)
11 Andante sostenuto (Preludio)
12 Lágrima (Preludio, andante)
13 Mazurka en sol (Lento)
14 Paquito (Vals)
15 Adelita (Mazurka, lento)
16 Marieta (Mazurka, lento)

Miguel Llobet (1875-1938)
17 El Testament d’Amelia (Andante expressivo)
18 El Noi de la Mare
19 Canço del Lladre
20 La Filadora (Allegro scherzando)

Francisco Tárrega
21 Endecha (Preludio, andante)
22 Sueño (Mazurka Conchita)
23 Oremus (Preludio, lento)
24 Pavana (Allegretto)
25 Adieu (Schubert arr. Tárrega)

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About this CD

There is no question of José Miguel Moreno being anything other than the leading Spanish specialist in historic plucked string instruments. As a concert performer, researcher, builder and collector of instruments and co-founder of the Glossa label, Moreno has, over the last thirty years, been the guiding beacon for a number of succeeding generations of guitarists and lutenists the world over. Glossa was the label for which he recorded two of his now legendary programmes, La Guitarra Española (1536-1836) and La Guitarra Española (1818-1918). These had previously been deleted but we are now bringing them back as a doubledisc set.

Moreno plays a range of instruments made either by Lourdes Uncilla or by himself in order to infuse with a new vitality the fundamental repertories in the history of the guitar as bequeathed by the vihuelists Narváez, Milán and Mudarra, then later composed by figures such as Francisco Guerau, Santiago de Murcia and Gaspar Sanz, and subsequently through the romantic scores of Fernando Sor and Johann Kaspar Mertz. Tárrega and Llobet, the great masters of post-Romanticism, close this survey striding with infinite musicality across the most representative compositions of four centuries of the Spanish guitar.

This special edition marks, as well, the departure point of a new process of collaboration between José Miguel Moreno and the label which he helped to create, with brand new recordings being planned, which will appear from the autumn of this year onwards.