Tárrega: Vals

This is a very important album which will be widely greeted by lovers of the Spanish Guitar. Tárrega was in many respects the founder of the modern Spaniosh Guitar movement, in that he not only was of the greatest importance in introducing a new style of guitar playing, but also the instrument on which it should be played. Before his death in 1909, Tarrega wrote and arranged much music for the guitar, and we have on this record a unique selection, embracing his own compositions as well as several of his best-known transcriptions. The Swiss guitarist Michael Erni is one of the finest currently before the public, and the recording quality is virtually state of the art. This is one of the very few CDs entirely devoted to Tárrega.

"It was a bright idea of Patrick Russ to mix the set of Five Bagatelles for solo guitar with his very last work, Varii Capricce, a brilliant orchestration of those same five pieces."

- Edward Greenfield, CNNMoney, 12 February 2002