This programme is devoted to original twentieth- century works for guitar by composers from Argentina and Uruguay and is quite clearly intended to provide a broad overview of guitar music from both sides of the Rio Plata. However, unlike much of the Latin-American repertoire for the instrument, the music on this recording is not simply a gentilified version of the local folk music. None of the composers represented here were, of course, unaffected by the folk influence, but they all proved to be wholly capable of producing music which was unmistakably their own, regardless of geography.

Angelo Gilardino