Villa-Lobos: Prelude No. 1 in E minor

LATINO GOLD is a repackage of Milos’ stunning 2012 album Latino. The CD will feature the original album plus approximately 20 minutes of newly recorded material including:

Classic Latin hits ‘Besame Mucho’, ‘Girl from Ipanema’, ‘Mas que nada’ and ‘Somos Novios’, all newly arranged for solo guitar by Sergio Assad.

Gustavo Santaolalla's De Ushuaia a la Quaica from the Motorcycle Diaries soundtrack.

A new radio and TV friendly short version of Ravel's Bolero, arranged for Solo Guitar and Orchestra.

A new recording of the original Libertango arrangement.

These recordings willl help enable the rediscovery of one of the greatest guitarists of all times. Some are rare, as after 1955 Presti only appeared in a duo with her husband.

This recording from 1960 features some of the most famous guitar repertoire including Recuerdos de l’Alhambra and Capricho arabe (Tarrega), Asturias (Albeniz) and Serenata Española (Malat).

In this sixth and last volume of André Segovia’s 1950s American recordings, the great guitarist is heard in a number of his transcriptions from eminent nineteenth century composers as well as in original guitar solos composed by his Spanish and South American contemporaries. The considerable diversity of the music is presented in Segovia’s inimitable manner, every nuance of sound and colour being uniquely exploited in delicately refined interpretations. Of particular note is Segovia’s interpretation of Falla’s Homenaje ‘Le Tombeau de Claude Debussy’, now regarded as one of the most emotionally charged solo guitar works. In his preface to Villa-Lobos’s Douze Etudes, that the composer had dedicated to him, Segovia writes: ‘Villa- Lobos has made a gift to the guitar’s history of the fruits of his talents as vigorous and as wise as that of Scarlatti and Chopin’.