Conciones Populares (Popular Songs) have been harmonised and arranged for Voice and Guitar by the Spanish composer F. San Andres. It is a collection of a dozen Spanish songs first published in 1961. It is presented here in a high-quality glossy cover and would make the perfect gift for any singer-guitarist.Frederico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish writer of plays and poems and is one of Spain’s most widely recognised artists in the field of drama. He came to epitomise the generation of ’27 and as such was also one of the leading cultural icons of his day.

Enrique Granados (1867-1916) was a Spanish composer and pianist who studied in Barcelona and Paris and whose life was tragically cut short by the First World War. The nationalist style which dominated his early output is often seen to be epitomised by the 1890 work 12 Danza Española a collection of Spanish dances originally for the solo Piano. Andaluza is No. 5 from 12 Danza Española and has been transcribed here for Voice with Guitar by the Basque arranger Jose De Azpiazu (1912-1986) setting a poem by Luis Munoz Llorente.

Valencian composer Ruperto Chapi (1851 1909) was a popular and important artist in Spain in his time writing symphonic band Choral and chamber works as well as more than one hundred zarzuelas many of which ran more than one hundred nights on the stage in Madrid and elsewhere. This form of comic musical semi-opera employed both spoken dialogue and musical numbers. This song Carceleras Al pensar en el dueño de mis amores from Las Hijas Del Zebedeo has retained its popularity and is frequently performed and recorded.The style is almost a patter song allegretto requiring verbal and Vocal dexterity from the soloist. The text is in Spanish untranslated.

This mini-cycle of three songs for Voice and in this instance Guitar are ranked among the greatest of Granados’s musical achievements. The blend of beautiful melody formal integrity and control in the accompaniment creates a remarkable work. The songs set the poetry of Fernando Periquet a contemporary Spanish writer and generally concern the theme of romantic love. The texts are in Spanish untranslated.Spanish composer and pianist Enrique Granados was active in the decades around the turn of the last century. Granados’s life and work were cut tragically short when the passenger ship on which he was sailing was bombed by a German U-boat in the English Channel. Heis best known for his suite for Piano Goyescas which has been arranged for other instruments written in 1911 around the time that these songs were written.