Canciones - Music By Albeniz / Falla / Lorca / Rodrigo Etc

Adam Cicchillitti's first album, Canciones, to be released on Analekta, evokes the regions and contrasts of Spain, its sources of inspiration and its many influences. The program This new album features works by the great Spanish composers of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, such as Albéniz, de Falla and Rodrigo, who all used folk music, folksong and Spanish dance as a source of inspiration. In the album notes, Richard Turp wrote "Few national music styles are as connected with one instrument as is Spain with the guitar. The instrument seems to contain the colours, the very spirit of the various and diverse regions of the country within its wooden casing."