Guitar Favourites
Norbert Kraft

While compiling this collection of "favourite" guitar pieces, many of which I have played for much of my musical life, I realised that not only was it this music which first attracted me to the guitar, but this is the repertoire that has enticed a world of guitar lovers to the instrument's special charm and magic. These pieces, mostly quite brief, and mainly Hispanic in origin, embody the soul of the guitar.

Perhaps the most popular Spanish music is a handful of pieces by Isaac Albeniz, written originally for the piano, but played more often in transcription on the guitar. In fact, Albeniz did not write any music for the guitar, but clearly had his national instrument in his "mind's' ear" when composing for the piano.

Inspired by various regions or cities in Spain, these pieces evoke the haunting and mysterious character that is Spain in every measure. Asturias, named after t