Gianluigi Giglio - Fernando Sor: The 19th-Century Guitar

The acclaimed Italian guitarist Gianluigi Giglio makes his debut on SOMM Recordings with The 19th Century Guitar, a scintillating recital of music by Fernando Sor, a pioneering champion of the guitar in the vanguard of raising its profile out of the tavern and into the concert hall. Giglio�s wide-ranging recital explores Sor�s innate feeling for the guitar and charts the increasing demands he placed on the instrument in a body of work that transformed its standing with public and pundits alike. From the early Op.9 masterpiece that charted a new and expressive landscape for the guitar � Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart � to the late Elegiac Fantasy (Op.59) with its leanings towards newly-emerging Romanticism, this is a textbook display of the instrument�s many abilities given eloquent voice by a master guitarist. Gianluigi Giglio plays a guitar made by the noted Parisian luthier Ren� Lac�te in Paris in 1834.