Complete Music for Solo Guitar

This recording brings together the complete solo guitar music of two of the most important Catalan composers of the 20th century: Federico Mompou (1893-1987) and Roberto Gerhard (1896-1970). Two different musicians with a strong personality, profound and charismatic who developed a personal and individual language in 20th century Spanish music. Despite (or because of..?) their diversity in character and musical style they were close friends, working together on several occasions. Mompou's music is the "Music of silence", reflective, intimate with a tinge of melancholy ("less is more"), Gerhard's music is more expressive, especially in his setting of Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls", depicting the horrors of the Spanish Civil War. Marco Ramelli is an Italian guitarist and composer, he won the prestigious World Guitar Composition Competition in Serbia. He plays a 1931 Francisco Simplicio guitar, one of the most important Catalan luthiers.