Guitar Music from Spain, Mexico and Brazil is Leon Koudelak

Leon Koudelak

Leon Koudelak classical guitarist.Leon Koudelak has toured internationally in most parts of Europe, Asia and the Americas. He inspired famous composers such as Tom Pegram, Apostolos Paraskevas or Michael Buchrainer to write guitar music...

's first studio album.

Shortly after he signed an exclusive contract with Tyrolis Music, he recorded this album in the old Tyrolis Studios 1989 in Fussach, Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. The tapes were recorded as an analog recording

Analog recording

Analog recording is a technique used for the recording of analog signals which among many possibilities include audio frequency, analog audio and analog video information for later playback.Analog recording methods store signals as a continual wave in or on the media...

 (ADD) with a Revox

Revox

ReVox is a brand name of Swiss audio equipment created by Studer on March 27, 1951.The ReVox brand name was spun off into Studer Revox AG in 1990. During Studer's acquisition by Harman International Industries, Revox was sold separately to a group of private investors...

 recording machine.

Some pieces on this album, Leon Koudelak recorded again on his next albums in completely digital

Digital recording

In digital recording, digital audio and digital video is directly recorded to a storage device as a stream of discrete numbers, representing the changes in air pressure for audio and chroma and luminance values for video through time, thus making an abstract template for the original sound or...

 (DDD) format.

Track listing

Francisco Tarrega

Francisco Tárrega

Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea was an influential Spanish composer and guitarist of the Romantic period.-Biography:Tárrega was born on 21 November 1852, in Vila-real, Castelló, Spain...

 (1852–1909)

Recuerdos de la Alhambra

Recuerdos de la Alhambra

Recuerdos de la Alhambra is a classical guitar piece composed in 1896 by Spanish composer and guitarist Francisco Tárrega. He wrote it in Granada.A virtuoso on his instrument, Tárrega was known as the "Sarasate of the guitar"...

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos

Heitor Villa-Lobos was a Brazilian composer, described as "the single most significant creative figure in 20th-century Brazilian art music". Villa-Lobos has become the best-known and most significant Latin American composer to date. He wrote numerous orchestral, chamber, instrumental and vocal works...

 (1887-1959)

Suíte popular brasileira (1928, rev. 1947–48)

1. "Mazurka-Choro"
2. "Schottish-Choro"
3. "Valsa-Choro"
4. "Gavotta-Choro"

Manuel Maria Ponce

Manuel Maria Ponce

Manuel María Ponce Cuéllar was a Mexican composer active in the 20th century. His work as a composer, music educator and scholar of Mexican music connected the concert scene with a usually forgotten tradition of popular song and Mexican folklore...

(1882–1948)

Tres canciones populares mexicano

1. "Allegro"
2. "Andante"
3. "Allegro vivo"

Scherzino mexicano

Joaquin Turina

Joaquín Turina

Joaquín Turina was a Spanish composer of classical music.-Biography:Turina was born in Seville but his origins were in northern Italy . He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid...

(1882–1949)

Sonata Op.61

1. "Allegro"
2. "Andante"
3. "Vivo"

Joaquin Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo

Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre, 1st Marquis of the Gardens of Aranjuez , commonly known as Joaquín Rodrigo, was a composer of classical music and a virtuoso pianist. Despite being nearly blind from an early age, he achieved great success...

 (1901–1999)

Invocation y Danza

1. "Invocation (Moderato)"
2. "Danza (Allegro Moderato Polo)"

Other

• Recording Studio : Tyrolis Studios Fussach
• Booklet by Tyrolis Music
• Engineered, Mixed and Recorded by Kurt Keckeis
• Mastered by Kurt Keckeis
• Produced by Rene Wanger and Elmar Gangl
• Guitar by Eduard. B. Jones (David Rubio
  David Rubio
  David Rubio, , 1934 - died Cambridge on 21 October 2000) was an English maker of stringed musical instruments. His creations included guitars, lutes, harpsichords, theorbos, vihuelas, citterns, panduras, and finally also violins, violas and cellos...
  
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