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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.
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.
Fabio Zanon is recognized as one of the preeminent guitarists of today. His varied activities as a conductor, teacher, writer and broadcaster have contributed to placing the guitar in a broader cultural perspective.
He is one of the only three Latin American guitarists to win the GFA Competition in the USA, he is also the winner of several other major international competitions, such as Francisco Tarrega in Spain and Alessandria in Italy.
His repertoire includes over 40 works for guitar and orchestra, many world premieres and virtually all the relevant chamber music repertoire. Among the world premieres, the guitar concerto by Brazilian composer Francis Hime stands out, with Fabio Zanon’s recording with Alondra de la Parra/São Paulo Symphony being nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2011.
Fabio Zanon has written a book about Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos and has written and presented the radio shows The Art of Guitar and The Brazilian Guitar for Radio Cultura in Brazil, as well as the music podcast Lira. Fabio is a Fellow and a Visiting Professor at Royal Academy of Music in London and the artistic director at the Campos do Jordão Winter Festival in Brazil, recognized as the largest and most traditional classical music event in Latin America
In 2022 he was invested with the title of Doctor Honoris Causa by the National University of Rosario in Argentina.