Violinist Rachel Barton Pine, Cedille Records’ all-time best-selling artist, has created another rare - perhaps unique - contribution to the world’s CD catalogue: an album of Spanish and Latin American music written solely for unaccompanied violin.

'Capricho Latino', Ms Pine’s 12th Cedille CD, offers eight world-premiere recordings: In addition to premieres of works by Roque Cordero, César Espejo and José White, the CD brings first-time recordings of pieces composed or arranged for Ms. Pine by José Serebrier, Luis Jorge Gonzáles, and Jesús Florido - and two of her own arrangements.

The diverse program of virtuoso pieces draws from the late-Romantic period to the present day. Represented are composers from Argentina, Cuba, Panama, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela - plus works in a Spanish vein by Belgian and English composers. Inaugurating this musical journey is Ms Pine’s virtuoso arrangement of Albéniz’s Asturias, which draws on both the familiar guitar version and the original but less-known piano score.

Contents:
1. Isaac Albéniz, arr. Rachel Barton Pine
Asturias (Leyenda)
(world premiere recording)

2. Roque Cordero
Rapsodia Panameña
(world premiere recording)

3. Traditional arr. Jesús Florido
Balada Española (Romance)
(world premiere recording)

4. César Espejo
Prélude Ibérique (a Henryk Szeryng)
(world premiere recording)

5. Manuel Quiroga
Emigrantes Celtas

6. Manuel Quiroga
Terra!! Á Nosa!!

7. Eugène Ysaÿe
Sonata No.6 (a Manuel Quiroga)

8. Luis Jorge González
Epitalamio Tanguero (a Rachel y Greg)
(world premiere recording)

9. José White
Etude No.6 (a Secundino Arango)
(world premiere recording)

10. Francisco Tárrega, arr. Ruggiero Ricci
Recuerdos de la Alhambra

11. Joaquín Rodrigo
Capriccio (Offrande à Sarasate)

12. José Serebrier (b. 1938)
Aires de Tango (a Rachel Barton Pine)
(world premiere recording)

13. Astor Piazzolla, arr. Rachel Barton Pine
Tango Etude No.3 con Libertango
(world premiere recording)

14. Alan Ridout
Ferdinand the Bull
with Héctor Elizondo, narrator