Tarrega, F.: Guitar Music

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Prelude in D minor (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
Norbert Kraft, guitar
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar


1.   Prelude in D minor - 00:01:29


Prelude in A minor (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Ricardo Gallen, guitar
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar


2.   Prelude in A minor - 00:01:50


Prelude in G major (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar


3.   Prelude in G major - 00:00:46


Prelude in E major (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar


4.   Prelude in E major - 00:00:47


Prelude in E major (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Ricardo Gallen, guitar
Andres Segovia, guitar
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Fabio Zanon, guitar


5.   Prelude in E major - 00:01:51


Prelude in B minor (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Recording date: 20, 21 October 2008


6.   Prelude in B minor - 00:01:01


Prelude in A major (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar


7.   Prelude in A major - 00:00:50


Prelude in F sharp minor (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar


8.   Prelude in F sharp minor - 00:00:44


Prelude in B minor on a theme by Mendelssohn (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Recording date: 20, 21 October 2008


9.   Prelude in B minor on a theme by Mendelssohn - 00:01:04


Prelude in B minor (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Recording date: 20, 21 October 2008


10.   Prelude in B minor - 00:00:32


Prelude in E major, "Lagrima" (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Daekun Jang, guitar
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar


11.   Prelude in E major, 'Lagrima' - 00:02:01


Prelude in A minor (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Recording date: 20, 21 October 2008


12.   Prelude in A minor - 00:00:25


Prelude in G major (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Recording date: 20, 21 October 2008


13.   Prelude in G major - 00:01:04


Prelude in D major (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Norbert Kraft, guitar
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Fabio Zanon, guitar
Recording date: August 1993


14.   Prelude in D major - 00:00:29


Prelude in D minor, "Endecha" (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Norbert Kraft, guitar
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Fabio Zanon, guitar


15.   Prelude in D minor, 'Endecha' - 00:01:13


Prelude in D minor, "Oremus" (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar


16.   Prelude in D minor, 'Oremus' - 00:00:34


Valse (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega Celedonio Romero
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Ana Vidovic, guitar


17.   Valse: II. Las dos Hermanitas - 00:04:27
18.   Valse: I. Paquito - 00:02:29
19.   Valse: III. Vals in D major - 00:02:32


4 Mazurkas (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Andres Segovia, guitar
Daekun Jang, guitar
Michalis Kontaxakis, guitar
Norbert Kraft, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Alejandro Saladin Cote, guitar
Fabio Zanon, guitar
Recording date: February 1955


20.   No. 1 in G minor, 'Adelita' - 00:01:41
21.   No. 3. Marieta - 00:02:32
22.   No. 2 in G major - 00:02:44


Maria (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Andres Segovia, guitar
Michalis Kontaxakis, guitar
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
Norbert Kraft, guitar
Johannes Tonio Kreusch, guitar
Pablo Sainz Villegas, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Alejandro Saladin Cote, guitar
Fabio Zanon, guitar


23.   Maria - 00:01:38


Recuerdos de la Alhambra (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega Celedonio Romero
Andres Segovia, guitar
Dejan Ivanovic, guitar
Craig Ogden, guitar
Norbert Kraft, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
David Martinez, guitar


24.   Recuerdos de la Alhambra - 00:05:40


Rosita (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Jose Antonio Escobar, guitar
Norbert Kraft, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar


25.   Rosita - 00:01:46


Pepita (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Recording date: 20, 21 October 2008


26.   Pepita - 00:01:43


Capricho arabe (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Andres Segovia, guitar
Craig Ogden, guitar
Anabel Montesinos, guitar
Johannes Tonio Kreusch, guitar
Stefano Grondona, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Emanuele Segre, guitar
Alejandro Saladin Cote, guitar
Ana Vidovic, guitar
Recording date: 27-31 March 2003


27.   Capricho arabe - 00:05:19


Gran vals (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Norbert Kraft, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Alejandro Saladin Cote, guitar


28.   Gran vals - 00:03:24


Alborada (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Daekun Jang, guitar
Norbert Kraft, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Recording date: August 1993


29.   Alborada - 00:02:21


Isabel (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar


30.   Isabel - 00:01:49


Pavana (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Giulio Tampalini, guitar
Recording date: 20, 21 October 2008


31.   Pavana - 00:02:32


10 Artistic Studies, Op. 19 (arr. F. Tarrega) (more info)
Composed by: Francisco Tarrega Delphin Alard
Andres Segovia, guitar
Mats Bergstrom, guitar
Recording date: March 1955


32.   10 Artistic Studies, Op. 19: Study No. 2 in A major, 'Estudio brillante' (arr. Tarrega) - 00:02:28

Reviews

A dance to a constantly surprising refrain (Jan 25, 2010)
Reviewer:Dean Frey
Mats Bergstrom's new Francisco Tarrega disc on Naxos is a perfect introduction to the music of this very appealing composer. The Classical Guitar (CG) community knows this music well, of course, but the non-specialist who loves classical music might not be familiar with most of these pieces. That person would be very lucky to come across this disc!

There are exceptions, though,... Mats Bergstrom's new Francisco Tarrega disc on Naxos is a perfect introduction to the music of this very appealing composer. The Classical Guitar (CG) community knows this music well, of course, but the non-specialist who loves classical music might not be familiar with most of these pieces. That person would be very lucky to come across this disc!

There are exceptions, though, to the general obscurity of this music. In his excellent liner notes, Bergstrom points out one of the most well-known musical fragments in the world: the ubiquitous Nokia mobile phone ring-tone comes from measures 13-16 of the Gran Vals. Go to the Wikipedia article "Nokia_tune" to check this out. I wonder how many people know that these 13 jaunty tones were written by Francisco Tarrega?

My favourite piece on the disc is also fairly well known: the "Recuerdos de la Alhambra". This lovely piece was on a great Julian Bream LP from the 1960s that introduced me to the classical guitar; that record also included the Villa-Lobos Preludes. It was used to great effect in Hugo Blick's superb British TV series "Sensitive Skin", where it underlined the themes of betrayal, loss, and sadness. This short work is a rare example of a piece of music whose virtuosity is completely overtaken by the mood of the piece. The music is heartbreakingly sad, and it's only when you stop and think about it that you realize how hard it must be to play! Bergstrom's version is a perfect example of virtuosity with only one aim: to communicate the music itself.

The best thing about this disc is discovering all the other moods that Tarrega can evoke in short pieces - many are only one or two minutes long. Some are adaptations of popular music by composers of the day, while others are original character pieces in the form of salon pieces: waltzes and mazurkas, especially. According to Larry Hart's great lyrics to the Rogers & Hart song "My Romance,"

My romance doesn't need a castle rising in Spain
Nor a dance to a constantly surpising refrain

Maybe not, but that's what you get in the music of Francisco Tarrega. Playing a replica of Tarrega's favourite guitar, Mats Bergstrom and Naxos (with its customary splendid presentation and engineering) together present one of the most impressive discs of classical guitar music I've heard in a very long time! (read more)