Flower Duet (Lakme) by Leo Delibes (1836-1891) Clément Philibert Léo Delibes was a French Romantic composer, best known for his ballets and operas. The “Flower Duet” is a duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano in the first act of Lakmé (1883). It is sung by the characters Lakmé, daughter of a Brahmin priest, and her servant …
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The Swan (Le Cygne) by Saint-Saëns (1835-1921) Camille Saint-Saëns was a French composer of the Romantic era. “The Swan” is taken from the “Carnival of the Animals” (Le Carnaval des animaux), a light-hearted musical comedy of 14 moments. The suite was published in 1922, the year after his death.
Nocturne Opus 9 No 1 by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher of French–Polish parentage. A great masters of Romantic music and has been called “the poet of the piano”. He supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. For most of …
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La Preço de Lleida (Lledia Prison) by Miguel Llobet (1878-1938) Miguel Llobet Solés was a classical guitarist, born in Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain). Llobet was a renowned virtuoso who toured Europe and America extensively. He made well known arrangements of Catalan folk songs for the solo guitar and is also the composer of original works.
Malgre Tout (Despite Everything) by Manuel Ponce (1882-1948) Manuel Ponce was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a usually forgotten tradition of popular song and Mexican folklore. Many of his compositions are strongly influenced by the …
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BWV 1004 Sarabnade by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity.
Romanza by Antonio Lauro (1917-1986) Antonio Lauro was a Venezuelan musician, considered to be one of the foremost South American composers for the Guitar in the 20th century. The works of Antonio Lauro have long been very popular with guitarists worldwide, several recordings by John Williams and David Russell have set Lauro’s fame in the …
Nocturne Reverie (Opus 19) by Giulio Regondi (1822-1872) Giulio Regondi was an Italian classical guitarist, concertinist and composer. Regondi was a child prodigy. Fernando Sor dedicated his Souvenir d’amitié, op. 46 to Regondi in 1831, when the boy was just nine. His works for solo guitar comprise a set of etudes and five larger works.
Romanza by Robert Schumann (1810-1856) Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era.
Mimoso by Joao Penambuco (1883-1947) João Teixeira Guimarães (1883-1947), better known as João Pernambuco, is one of the founders of the Brasilian guitar choro style, and his compositions for solo violão are deservedly considered belonging to the core of classic choro, popular with guitarists, loved and admired by audiences in Brazil and elsewhere.
