ALBORADA
The dawn of a new instrument in classical music

Until the 20th century, the guitar remained absent from the mainline of modern classical music, which was consolidated in the 19th century. Throughout this period, It alternated periods of greater or lesser ostracism and belittlement. “Alborada” brings a selection of compositions that were part of the dawn of the movement that consolidated the classical concert guitar. ​​​​

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This movement was personified in the figure of the great Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia who, throughout a career spanning more than 70 years, presented works to audiences around the world that were being heard for the first time. Among these works are those composed by Torroba and Turina in the 1920s, which became one of the flagships of the success of Segovia's first world tours from 1924 onwards. Other works premiered and played by Segovia ended up leaving his repertoire and falling into the oblivion, this is the case of Vicente Arregui's Tres Piezas Líricas, these pieces were rediscovered in May 2001, in Andrés Segovia's personal archives, and only then published.

The works on this album were composed between 1921 and 1935 and have maintained a dawn freshness to this day. They are the soundtrack of a period in which Spanish music, literature and arts won worldwide admiration through names such as Falla, Turina, Segovia, Casals, Picasso, Miró, Garcia Lorca and Ortega y Gasset.