Andrés Segovia, a Spanish guitarist, was a pioneer who brought the guitar to the concert hall and commissioned important works from his contemporaries.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded from July 19 to 21 in the August Everding Hall, Grünwald, Germany, with artistic direction, sound engineering, editing, mixing, and mastering by Michele Gaggia.
Composition History
Manuel de Falla's Homenaje ('Hommage à Debussy') was commissioned in 1920 by musicologist Henry Prunières for the Revue Musicale to honor the memory of Claude Debussy, who died in 1918.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Heitor Villa-Lobos's 12 Études for guitar, written in Paris in the 1920s, are considered unprecedented in guitar history for their idiom and break with aesthetic paradigms.
Historical Context
This album aims to capture the cultural effervescence of Paris a century ago, a period known as the Roaring Twenties, which was a time of tremendous creativity.
Composer Biography
Germaine Tailleferre was the only female composer to be part of the influential musical movement of her time, the Groupe des Six, which also included Darius Milhaud and Francis Poulenc.
Composition History
The Suite in A minor for guitar, originally attributed to lutenist Sylvius Leopold Weiss, was actually commissioned by Andrés Segovia from Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce in 1929.
