Greek virtuoso guitarist Smaro Gregoriadou is a multi-award winning artist who travels across Europe and North America teaching and performing solo works. On this recording, she performs renditions of modern and contemporary pieces for guitar. Gregoriadou strives to "reinvent guitar." Meaning, her goal is to, "provide historically informed, well-substantiated, compatible guitar interpretations of Renaissance and baroque music that at the same time can be fresh, alive and convincing; and to offer a new reading for new repertoire, suitable for modern audiences and venues." (Gregoriadou) The final work on this recording is an original composition by Gregoriadou, which was a response to a commission by the Staatliche Hochschule fur Musik Trossingen.

Tracklist:

Préludes Pour Guitare: I. Larghetto
Préludes Pour Guitare: II. Moderato
Préludes Pour Guitare: III. Scherzando Vivace
Préludes Pour Guitare: IV. Vivo Con Fuoco - Più Lento Cantando - Tempo 1
Prelude In C Minor
Las Abejas
Suite Andina: Aire De Zamba
Danza Paraguaya No. 1
Thème, Varié Et Finale
3 Tentos: No. 1, Du Schönes Bächelin
3 Tentos: No. 2, Es Findet Das Aug Oft
3 Tentos: No. 3, Sohn Laios
The Fall Of Birds: II. Toccata
Tango Grotesco
Tactus Spiritus
Temptation Of The Renaissance
El Aleph After Jorge Luis Borges: I. Prism
El Aleph After Jorge Luis Borges: II. Cantus
El Aleph After Jorge Luis Borges: III. Yo, No…

UPC: 013491349022
Label: Delos Records
Release Date: 2.12.16
Format: CD

Barrios / Gregoriadou / Open Source Guitars - El Aleph - 20th & 21st Century Guitar Music (CD)