Smaro Gregoriadou - El Aleph: 20th & 21st Century Guitar Music (2016)

Tracklist
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01. Préludes pour guitare: I. Larghetto
02. Préludes pour guitare: II. Moderato
03. Préludes pour guitare: III. Scherzando vivace
04. Préludes pour guitare: IV. Vivo con fuoco-Più lento cantando-Tempo 1
05. Prelude in C Minor
06. Las Abejas
07. Suite Andina: Aire de Zamba
08. Danza Paraguaya No. 1
09. Thème, varié et finale
10. 3 Tentos: No. 1, Du schönes Bächelin
11. 3 Tentos: No. 2, Es findet das Aug oft
12. 3 Tentos: No. 3, Sohn Laios
13. The Fall of Birds: II. Toccata
14. Tango Grotesco
15. Tactus Spiritus
16. Temptation of the Renaissance
17. El Aleph After Jorge Luis Borges: I. Prism
18. El Aleph After Jorge Luis Borges: II. Cantus
19. El Aleph After Jorge Luis Borges: III. Yo, no

Greek virtuoso guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou is a multi-award winning artist who travels across Europe and North America teaching and performing solo works. On this recording, she performs renditions of modern and contemporary pieces for guitar.; Gregoriadou strives to “reinvent guitar.” Meaning, her goal is to, “provide historically informed, well-substantiated, compatible guitar interpretations of Renaissance and baroque music that at the same time can be fresh, alive and convincing; and to offer a new reading for new repertoire, suitable for modern audiences and venues.” (Gregoriadou); The final work on this recording is an original composition by Gregoriadou, which was a response to a commission by the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik Trossingen.