Emanuele Segre - The Spanish Guitar - 1535-1962 (DE 3347)

This April 2005 Delos release demonstrates that you don't have to be Spanish to be a masterful interpreter of Spanish music. Emanuele Segre, Italian Guitarist, proves this point as he surveys a wide swath of Spanish guitar music ranging from 1535 to 1962.
On two discs and 30 tracks, Segre plays the music of a pantheon of Spanish classical composers, including Milán, Mudarra, Sanz, Narvaéz, Murcia, Aguado, Sor, Albéniz, Granados, Tárrega, Llobet, Falla, Turina, Moreno-Torroba, and Mompou. The results are impressive, convincing and beautiful sounding. Segre makes his instrument sing and dance as he uses creative phrasing, fingering and ornamentation to bring new life to old music.
Segre's fresh look at more familiar 19th and 20th century composers is equally original. Even Albéniz and Granados selections have been restudied and newly transcribed when needed.
As Segre notes "…in the relationship between the guitar and Spain … the horizons of research are always wide open."