Guitar Solo (Remastered) Leo Brouwer

• Gaspar Sanz (1640 - 1710): Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, Book II:
• 1 Sanz: Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, Book II: No. 7, Matachin 00:46
• 2 Sanz: Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, Book I: No. 13, Españoleta 00:53
• 3 Sanz: Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, Book II: No. 28, La Cavalleria de Napoles 01:08
• 4 Sanz: Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, Book I: No. 35, Canarios 01:10
• 5 Sanz: Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, Book I: No. 41, Preludio o capricho arpeado 01:08
• 6 Sanz: Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, Book I: No. 43, Alemanda, la Preciosa 02:30
• 7 Sanz: Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, Book I: No. 44, Coriente 01:18
• 8 Sanz: Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, Book I: No. 22, Zarabanda francesa 01:10
• 9 Sanz: Instrucción de música sobre la guitarra española, Book I: No. 42, Sesquiáltera 00:40
• Luis de Narváez (1490 - 1552): Los seys libros del Delphin:
• 10 Narváez: Los seys libros del Delphin, Book I: Fantasía III. Tercer tono 02:30
• 11 Narváez: Los seys libros del Delphin, Book II: Fantasía XIII. Primer tono por gesolreut 01:20
• Fernando Sor (1778 - 1839): 12 Minuets, Op. 11:
• 12 Sor: 12 Minuets, Op. 11: No. 7 in A Minor 01:54
• 13 Sor: 12 Minuets, Op. 11: No. 6 in A Major 02:00
• 14 Sor: 12 Minuets, Op. 11: No. 5 in D Major 02:20
• 15 Sor: 12 Minuets, Op. 11: No. 3 in G Major 02:58
• 16 Sor: 12 Minuets, Op. 11: No 10 in E Major 02:45
• Cornelius Cardew (1936 - 1981): Material:
• 17 Cardew: Material 05:59
• Hans Werner Henze (1926 - 2012): El Cimarrón, The Autobiography of The Runaway Slave Esteban Montejo:
• 18 Henze: El Cimarrón, The Autobiography of The Runaway Slave Esteban Montejo: Memories 15:29
• Leo Brouwer (b. 1939): Exaedros:
• 19 Brouwer: Exaedros 06:11
• Total Runtime 54:09

Info for Guitar Solo (Remastered)

Leo Brouwer was born in Havana in 1939, and we can trace his lineage as a guitarist back to Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909). His teacher was Isaac Nicola, initiator of the Cuban Guitar School, himself a pupil of Emilio Pujol, who in turn, studied with the great Tárrega. In 1959, Brouwer won a scholarship for a composition class at the Julliard School in New York. A period in Warsaw changed his outlook on composition completely, and the influence of ‘the Polish School’ upon him and other Cuban avant-garde artists was far-reaching. His work has involved both ballet and cinema, extending to symphonic works in the 1960s.

Leo Brouwer, classical guitar

Digitally remastered

Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida
born March 1, 1939 in Cuba. He is a composer, conductor, and classical guitarist. Here’s a great writeup via this Naxos Album: “One of the few Cuban composers to gain international recognition, Leo Brouwer was born in Havana in 1939. He became a fine guitarist and had his first composition published at the age of 17. He subsequently moved to the United States and was enroled in the Juilliard School to study composition. On his return to Havana he worked for the radio and was later appointed composition professor at the Havana Conservatory. Initially we find folk music inspiring his compositions, but he later embraced the most advanced West European avant-garde techniques while founding a new Cuban school of composition. That largely changed at Juilliard where he came under the influences of the most avant garde composers, such as Cage, Nono and Henze, which were to stimulate his later works. He has since written a number of large scale works, including concertos for flute and for guitar, though his name is best known in the field of solo guitar music.”

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