Composer: Fernando Sor
Performer: Gianluigi Giglio
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: SOMM
Release: 2019
Size: 1.18 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Introduction and variations on ‘Malborough s’en va-t-en guerre’, Op. 28
02. Les folies d’Espagne & Minuet, Op. 15a
03. Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart, Op. 9
04. Easy Fantasy in A Minor, Op. 58
6 Bagatelles, Op. 43 “Mes ennuis”
05. No. 3, Cantabile
06. No. 5, Andante
Elegiac Fantasy in E Major, Op. 59
07. Ia. Introduction – Andante largo
08. Ib. March funèbre – Andante moderato
09. Capriccio in E Major, Op. 50 “Le calme”
10. 24 Progressive Lessons for Beginners, Op. 31 – No. 23 in E Major, The Movement of a Religious Prayer
The acclaimed Italian guitarist Gianluigi Giglio makes his debut on SOMM Recordings with The 19th Century Guitar, a scintillating recital of music by Fernando Sor, a pioneering champion of the guitar in the vanguard of raising its profile out of the tavern and into the concert hall. Giglio’s wide-ranging recital explores Sor’s innate feeling for the guitar and charts the increasing demands he placed on the instrument in a body of work that transformed its standing with public and pundits alike. From the early Op.9 masterpiece that charted a new and expressive landscape for the guitar – Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart – to the late Elegiac Fantasy (Op.59) with its leanings towards newly-emerging Romanticism, this is a textbook display of the instrument’s many abilities given eloquent voice by a master guitarist. Gianluigi Giglio plays a guitar made by the noted Parisian luthier René Lacôte in Paris in 1834.