Llobet's El Noi de la Mare

Here is a recording I made on 11/1/09 of the genius guitar composer, Miguel Llobet's El Noi de la Mare. It is amoung a set of Catalan folk tunes that Llobet arranged in a very creative and harmonically adventurous way in the first two decades of the twentieth century. Llobet was the most celebrated of the pupils of the great Francisco Tarrega. His fingerings are remarkable in that he payed almost no mind to the difficulty of the fingering in order to produce the most pleasing sound. His transcriptions are unmatched in there attention to detail and clever manipulation of the guitar using every idiomatic tool that was known to exist on guitar in his time.