José, Albéniz & Manén: Guitar Works

Representing three generations of Spanish composers, these works reveal the diversity and depth of the Iberian musical imagination. Albéniz’s Suite is a perennial evocation of Iberian Romanticism that transcribes naturally from piano to guitar, and José’s original and inventive Sonata revives a reputation cut short by the Spanish Civil War. Dedicated to Segovia, Manén’s Fantasia-Sonata is rich in Catalonian sentiment both elegiac and celebratory. Vojin Kocić’s debut recording, ‘and what a debut it is’ (The WholeNote), can be heard on 8.573906.