Alberto Mesirca: British Guitar Music

Featuring

Alberto Mesirca
Martin Rummel
John Dowland
Benjamin Britten
Lennox Berkeley
Robert Fripp

Graham Whettam
Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

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Recording & Production

This album is entirely devoted to English music, reflecting the performer Alberto Mesirca's interest in the country's culture, literature, poetry, and visual arts.

Composition History

Sir Lennox Berkeley's 'Quatre Pièces pour la Guitare' were a surprising discovery in the Andrés Segovia Archive in 2001, previously unknown even to experts of his work.

Composition History

The world premiere recordings of Graham Whettam's 'Guitar Partita' and 'Serenade for cello and guitar' are included on this album.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, whose 'Farewell to Stromness' is featured, had a keen interest in environmentalism and wrote 'The Yellow Cake Revue' to protest uranium mining plans in Orkney.

Composer Biography

John Dowland, a representative composer of the English Renaissance featured on this album, was dismissed from the court of Christian IV of Denmark in 1606, despite being paid 'astronomical sums of money'.

Composer Biography

Robert Fripp, a guitar innovator to whom this album is dedicated, co-founded the influential progressive rock band King Crimson in 1968 and has remained its only consistent member.

Performer Biography

Alberto Mesirca, the classical guitarist on this album, has won numerous international awards, including the 'Peredur Preis für junge Künstler' and the 'Golden Guitar' twice.