Andrea Monarda (guitar)

Gnattali’s music is unique: the writing for the instrument is excellent, the harmonic solutions surprising and the inspiration inexhaustible. After Villa-Lobos, Gnattali's work is considered to be the most appreciated and performed. Francisco Mignone, before being regarded as a 'serious composer', was successful in the popular genre. Adopting the pseudonym Chico Bororó, he composed many valsas and maxixes: their popular influence can be found in all his later musical output. Mignone's works for guitar includes two great cycles, the Estudos and the Valsas, characterized by exceptional technical brilliance and uncommon versatility of styles, from folk to serial composition.

Played with rich colors and immense joy by Italian guitarist Andrea Monarda, about whom Ennio Morricone said: “I am truly grateful to M° Andrea Monarda for his precise analysis of my Quattro pezzi for guitar. I am grateful for the attention and the experience of the brilliant professional who, with his sensitive interpretation, ‘discovered’ the secret intentions of the composer.”

Recorded November 2021 in Molfetta, Italy.

Bilingual booklet in English and Italian contains liner notes by musicologist Miriam Di Pasquale Baumann, along with the artist biography Andrea Monarda plays a Sergio Abreu guitar (1991).