Españoletas: Spanish Guitar Favourites From Five Centuries / Marten Falk, guitar

Album Summary

Performer Composers

Notes & Reviews:

Mårten Falk, one of Sweden's finest guitarists, releases his fifth solo album! Falk is also internationally one of the most versatile guitarists, master of renaissance music as well as the newest, experimental guitar music. On this CD he presents Spanish guitar favorites from five centuries.

American Record Guide, September / October 2012
This is the stuff that made me, and many others, fall in love with the guitar. It would be a magnificent introductory recording for a neophyte, and it brings sophisticated enjoyment to connoisseurs. One rarely finds both qualities on the same recording.

Notes & Reviews:

Recording information: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011).



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Works Details

>Luys de Narváez (circa 1500 - bef 1560) : Cancion del emperador, for vihuela
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 10 sec.
  • Period Time: Renaissance
  • Form: Vocal
  • Written: by 1538

>Luys de Narváez (circa 1500 - bef 1560) : Diferencias (7) for guitar on "Guárdame las vacas"
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 2 min. 27 sec.
  • Period Time: Renaissance
  • Written: 1538

>Mudarra, Alonso de : Fantasia No 10, for vihuela
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 1 min. 56 sec.
  • Period Time: Renaissance
  • Written: 1546

>Mudarra, Alonso de : Galliard
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 1 min. 15 sec.
  • Period Time: Renaissance

>Sanz, Gaspar : Españoleta no 1 - G. Sanz
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 1 min. 36 sec.
  • Period Time: Baroque
  • Written: 1675

>Sanz, Gaspar : Canarios II, for guitar (Instrucción de Música sobre la Guitarra Española, Book 2)
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 2 min. 52 sec.
  • Period Time: Baroque

>Sor, Fernando : Variations for Guitar on a theme from Mozart's "Magic Flute", Op. 9
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 8 min. 43 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Written: circa 1820-1823

>Sor, Fernando : Leçons progressives (24), Op. 31
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 1 min. 53 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Francisco Tárrega (1852 - 1909) : Mazurkas (4) for Guitar
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 2 min. 7 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Written: circa 1880-1905

>Francisco Tárrega (1852 - 1909) : Prelude for guitar no 2 in A major
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 1 min. 51 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Francisco Tárrega (1852 - 1909) : Grand valse, for guitar
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 3 min. sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Form: Waltz

>Francisco Tárrega (1852 - 1909) : Recuerdos de la Alhambra
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 49 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Written: circa 1880-1905

>Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909) : Serenata española, for piano in D flat major, Op. 181, B. 39
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 4 min. 30 sec.
  • Period Time: Post Romantic
  • Written: circa 1890

>Isaac Albéniz (1860 - 1909) : Asturias (Leyenda), instrumental arrangement after Suite española no 1, Op. 47/5
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 6 min. 7 sec.
  • Period Time: Post Romantic

>Enriqué Granados (1867 - 1916) : Danzas (12) españolas for Piano, Op. 37
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 4 min. 32 sec.
  • Period Time: Post Romantic
  • Written: 1888-1890

>Llobet, Miguel [Guitar] : Cançó del Lladre, for guitar (from Canciones populares catalanas)
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic
  • Form: Vocal

>Llobet, Miguel [Guitar] : La Nit de Nadal, for guitar (from Canciones populares catalanas)
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 1 min. 18 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Llobet, Miguel [Guitar] : El Maestro (The Master), for guitar (from Canciones populares catalanas)
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 3 min. 9 sec.
  • Period Time: Romantic

>Joaquín Turina (1882 - 1949) : Fandanguillo
  • Performer: Marten Falk (Guitar)
  • Notes: Helgesta Kyrka, Sparreholm (08/27/2011-08/29/2011)
  • Running Time: 4 min. 40 sec.
  • Period Time: Modern
  • Written: 1926