Latin Guitar Sonatas

In this recording, the guitarist Roberto Lemma, who studied guitar, but also composition and literature in Italy and Basel, presents four solo sonatas whose genesis could not be more different. Niccolò Paganini’s Grand Sonata a Chittarra sola Con’Accompagnamento di Violino is a work that has been adopted by the soloist repertoire for the guitar. The compositional oeuvre of Joaquín Turina and Manuel María Ponce, so significant for the genre of guitar literature, is closely linked to their acquaintance with the great Spanish virtuoso Andrés Segovia, whereas Alberto Ginastera contributed merely one sonata to this genre. These four compositions quintessentially reveal different approaches to uniting originally European influences from classical music, in particular morphology, with elements of the traditional folk musical way of playing the guitar in cultures under Spanish and Latin American influence.