Agustin Barrios was both a virtuoso and a brilliant composer. Some of his pieces, always the same, are repeated by guitarists from time to time. But Philippe Lemaigre began to engrave the complete parts found of the Argentine master, for the happiness of those who have been able to obtain the rare box of 5 CDs. The work is exceptional, absolutely sublime interpretation, on a magnificent instrument. No equivalent in the history of the guitar.
As court organist to Queen Isabella as well as the music teacher of her children with Charles V Antonio de Cabezon was perfectly placed to become the most important composer of the Spanish Golden Age of the 16th century. This complete recorded survey celebrates his remarkable body of work as well as his unique style and mastery.
I knew that music was my language, really. That music was going to take me to know the world, was going to take me to other lands. Why I thought I had the music of the earth and the music of the sky. ” Gil, about his childhood in the city where he lived, in the interior of Bahia, where he ran to the sound of the first clarinet of the Band, which started the celebrations of the patron saint and seemed to invade everything.