Classical Composer: | Tárrega, Francisco |
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Work: | Recuerdos de la Alhambra |
Year Composed: | 1905 |
Instrumentation: | gtr |
Publishers: |
Universal Edition J & W Chester |
Duration: | 00:05:00 |
Period: | Romantic |
Work Category: | Instrumental |
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Francisco Tárrega composed some remarkable music for guitar, meticulously indicating the precise placing of notes on the fingerboard to produce the most vibrant effects. In many exquisite miniatures, often influenced by Chopin, he established a Spanish romantic voice for the guitar which has enchanted public and players ever since. Undoubtedly the most famous of his compositions is Recuerdos de la Alhambra, celebrating some time he spent in the Moorish palace, the Alhambra, in Granada, one of the world's finest historical monuments. This superb example of Tárrega's wistful creation of atmosphere is a thin sliver of delightful melody, tastefully harmonized, concise but utterly memorable. By exploiting the 'tremolo' technique, the guitarist's only device by which an unbroken legato line can be simulated, Tárrega demonstrates the poet's adage that 'the song of the piano is a discourse, the song of the harp is an elegy, but the song of the guitar is a song'.
Writer: Graham Wade
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