Gabriele Zanetti - Arcas: Complete Guitar Music (2020)

Tracklist

01. El delirio
02. Traviata fantasia
03. Variaciones sobre un tema de sor
04. Motivo de la ópera el barbero de Sevilla
05. Motivo de la Zarzuela Marina. Aire de tango
06. Bolero
07. Manuelito
08. La Cubana in D Major
09. El Madrileño
10. Rondeña
11. Mi segunda época
12. Murcianas
13. Panaderos
14. Boleras
15. Popurrí malagueño
16. La rubia de los lunares
17. Vísperas sicilianas
18. Polaca fantástica
19. La saltarina
20. Fantasía sobre motivos heterogéneos
21. Preludio en re
22. Lucía de Lammermoor. Escena y aria final
23. Colleción de tangos
24. Fantasía
25. Soleares
26. Fausto
27. Estudio 2°
28. Tanda de valses
29. Andante
30. Fantasía sobre el paño, o sea punto de la habana
31. Rondó
32. Los panaderos
33. La rubia de los lunares (2)
34. Trovador. Aria y miserere
35. Gaetana
36. Il bacio
37. Marcha funebre de Thalberg
38. Jota aragonesa
39. Andante y estudio de prudent
40. Estudio 1°
41. El postillón de la rioja
42. Soleá
43. Jaleo por punto de fandango
44. Polonesa
45. Preludio de la ópera Guillermo Tell
46. Minueto en mi menor
47. Minueto en sol
48. Güayabito
49. La favorita
50. Sinfonia de la opera Marta
51. Norma
52. El incognito
53. Sueño de rosellen
54. El fagot
55. Rigoletto
56. Ballo in maschera
57. La batalla



Julian Arcas (1832-1882) was born in Almeria, Spain in a musical family: his father was guitarist and passed his passion soon over to his son. The family moved to Malaga where Julian took lessons with the famous José Asencio. From his 16th on Julian gave concerts all over Spain, soon becoming one of the leading guitar virtuosos of his time. During a concert tour in England he was hailed as the greatest guitarist in the world.

Arcas formed lifelong friendships with the famous guitar builder Antonio de Torres (who built his “Leone” guitar for him) and with the young Francisco Tárrega, exchanging guitaristic innovations and techniques. Arcas’ compositions include studies, virtuoso showpieces, arrangements of operatic themes, and folk-inspired works. His life and career coincided with the start of the Golden Age of Flamenco, and his personal style embraced Spanish folk traditions at a time when populism and nationalism were all the rage.

Played with total conviction and feeling for the style by Italian master guitarist Gabriele Zanetti.

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