Sor: Complete Sonatas for Guitar

Dieci, Andrea

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One modern commentator has acclaimed the guitar method of Fernando Sor as ‘easily the most remarkable book on guitar technique ever written’. He can safely be numbered among the founding fathers of the Spanish guitar tradition, and his four sonatas rank among his grandest and most inspired works. In his lifetime, Sor was known as a Paganini of the guitar, performing across Europe in the early years of the 19th century just as the violinist did, and acquiring hardly less fame on the way: one contemporary English critic remarked that a new composition was Sor was awaited with hardly less impatience than the latest novel by Sir Walter Scott. He reciprocated such enthusiasm by composing songs and duets for his English audiences, but these sonatas represent the most thorough-going coming to terms of the new art-music aesthetic of the guitar with the Classical style of Mozart and Haydn.

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Muzyka klasyczna

Brilliant Classics

13-11-2019

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