Greek classical guitarist Filippos Manoloudis performs Sonata II: Allegro Vivace by Eduardo López-Chavarri (1871-1970). This comes via Guitar Salon International and their YouTube channel (go subscribe). Great performance by Manoloudis with some incredibly even and rapid passages and rhythmic intensity.
Here’s a quote from the abstract of this paper titled Eduardo López-Chavarri Marco (1871-1970) obra guitarrística by Javier Somoza de Pablo at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
The guitar corpus of this composer, which consists of a good handful of works (some of them of the highest quality) was created almost entirely between 1922 and 1932 and is part –an outstanding part, in our opinion– of the new guitar repertoire of the Interwar Period that arose after the dazzling appearance of Manuel de Falla’s Homenaje (1920) in the music scene of the time. At that time a reissue of that nineteenth-century Parisian guitarromanie took place, with the particularity that the authors of the new repertoire, for the first time in history, were not guitarists. López–Chavarri, like other composers who barely knew the guitar and its distinctive features, tried to associate himself with some prominent players of the instrument. However, these guitarists, due to various circumstances, did not give fair diffusion to the works composed for them and in a few years all these compositions were almost completely forgotten.
