There is no question of José Miguel Moreno being anything other than the leading Spanish specialist in historical plucked string instruments. As a concert performer, researcher, builder and collector of instruments and co-founder of the Glossa label, Moreno has been the guiding beacon, over the last 30 years, for a number of succeeding generations of guitarists and lutenists the world over.

Glossa was the label for which he recorded two of his now legendary programmes, La Guitarra Española (1536-1836) and La Guitarra Española (1818-1918). These had previously been deleted but Glossa are now bringing them back as a double set.

Moreno plays a range of instruments made either by Lourdes Uncilla or by himself in order to infuse with a new vitality the fundamental repertories in the history of the guitar, as bequeathed by the vihuelists Narváez, Milán and Mudarra, then later composed by figures such as Francisco Guerau, Santiago de Murcia and Gaspar Sanz, and subsequently through the romantic scores of Fernando Sor and Johann Kaspar Mertz.

Tárrega and Llobet, the great masters of post-Romanticism, close this survey, striding with infinite musicality across the most representative compositions of four centuries of the Spanish guitar.

This special edition also marks the start of a new collaboration between José Miguel Moreno and the label which he helped to create.

Contents:
CD 1 [72:31]
VIHUELA
Luys de Narváez
1. Cuatro diferencias de “Gúardame las vacas”
2. Passeavase el rey moro
3. Tres diferencias de “Guárdame las vacas”
4. Canción del Emperador

López (16th century)
5. Fantasía

Luys Milán
6. Pavana II
 
Alonso Mudarra
7. Pavana de Alexandre
8. Fantasía X que contrahaze la harpa en la manera de Ludovico

BAROQUE GUITAR
Santiago de Murcia
9. Giga
10. Cumbés

Francisco Guerau
11. Marionas
12. Canarios

Gaspar Sanz
13. Pavana al ayre español
14. Folías
15. Lantururú
16. Canarios

CLASSICAL-ROMANTIC GUITAR
Fernando Sor
17. Andante maestoso
18. Andante expressivo
19. Introduction and variations on a theme of “The Magic Flute”, Op.9

CD 2 [64:10]
CLASSICAL-ROMANTIC GUITAR
Fernando Sor
1-7. Introduction and variations on the air “Marlborough”, Op.28
8. Andantino en re menor

Johann Kaspar Mertz
9. Ständchen (Mäßig, tempo rubato) (Schubert arr. Tárrega)
10. Lied ohne Worte

POST-ROMANTIC GUITAR
Francisco Tárrega
11. Andante sostenuto (Preludio)
12. Lágrima (Preludio, andante)
13. Mazurka en sol (Lento)
14. Paquito (Vals)
15. Adelita (Mazurka, lento)
16. Marieta (Mazurka, lento)

Miguel Llobet
17. El Testament d’Amelia (Andante expressivo)
18. El Noi de la Mare
19. Canço del Lladre
20. La Filadora (Allegro scherzando)

Francisco Tárrega
21. Endecha (Preludio, andante)
22. Sueño (Mazurka Conchita)
23. Oremus (Preludio, lento)
24. Pavana (Allegretto)
25. Adieu (Schubert arr. Tárrega)

Recorded in Villa Consuelo, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, March 1994 and June 1996.
Previously available as GCD 920103 & GCD 920105