Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Complete Italian Solo Guitar Music

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was first drawn to the guitar after meeting Andres Segovia in Venice in 1932. The Variations á travers les siècles Op.71 followed almost immediately. Over the course of the next seven years, Castelnuovo-Tedesco produced a string of equally successful pieces for the instrument. Most substantial is the four movement Guitar Sonata subtitled as a ‘Homage to Boccherini’: an elegant essay in neoclassicism which evokes the courtly elegance of Boccherini’s Guitar Quintets while sounding entirely true to Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s own language. (Brilliant Classics)