Union-Musical-Ediciones - Voice, Guitar

Joaqu n Rodrigo's Romance De Durandarte arranged for Voice and Guitar. A virtuoso pianist and composer Rodrigo was a prolific producer of acclaimed music leading him to receive Spain's highest award for composition.

This mini-cycle of three songs for Voice and in this instance Guitar are ranked among the greatest of Granados’s musical achievements. The blend of beautiful melody formal integrity and control in the accompaniment creates a remarkable work. The songs set the poetry of Fernando Periquet a contemporary Spanish writer and generally concern the theme of romantic love. The texts are in Spanish untranslated.Spanish composer and pianist Enrique Granados was active in the decades around the turn of the last century. Granados’s life and work were cut tragically short when the passenger ship on which he was sailing was bombed by a German U-boat in the English Channel. Heis best known for his suite for Piano Goyescas which has been arranged for other instruments written in 1911 around the time that these songs were written.

Conciones Populares (Popular Songs) have been harmonised and arranged for Voice and Guitar by the Spanish composer F. San Andres. It is a collection of a dozen Spanish songs first published in 1961. It is presented here in a high-quality glossy cover and would make the perfect gift for any singer-guitarist.Frederico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish writer of plays and poems and is one of Spain’s most widely recognised artists in the field of drama. He came to epitomise the generation of ’27 and as such was also one of the leading cultural icons of his day.

A Spanish work which was originally composed for Guitar and Orchestra is seen here for Guitar and Piano reduction. Book only no solo part.