Latin American guitar music - World Premieres and an extraordinary discovery.
 
It is rather ironic that, of the 36 examples of Peruvian classical guitar music recorded for this CD, the only known composer - Pedro Ximénez (the remainder are anonymous) - lived, composed and died not in his native Peru, but in the city of Sucre, then capital of the Republic of Bolivia.

The other 13 compositions on this CD are anonymous works, taken from 18th and 18th century Peruvian copybooks by three different individuals.

The Mathías José Maestro notebook, dated in Lima in 1786, contains 17 pages of anonymous scores for guitar, most likely of European origin, since Maestro was born in Spain and emigrated to Lima toward the end of the 18th century.

The Zifra copybook also dates to the final years of the 18th century and belonged to a Spanish officer in the Royal Corps of Engineers, stationed in Lima. The 31 pieces in the Zifra notebook are also mostly of European origin, anonymous compositions and arrangements inspired by Spanish guitar music of the second half of the 18th century.

Track Listing:
Pedro Ximénez
1. Minuet no.4 in E minor
2. Minuet no.2 in E minor
3. Minuet no.15 in A major
4. Minuet no.6 in A minor
5. Minuet no.27 in D minor
6. Minuet no.23 in C minor
7. Minuet no.1 in A major

Cuaderno de Matías Maestro
8. Andante in E minor
9. Rondo in G major

Pedro Ximénez
10. Minuet no.75 in E minor

Cuarderno Anónimo de 1830
11. Minuet in A minor

Pedro Ximénez
12. Minuet no.21 in A major
13. Minuet no.17 in A major
14. Minuet no.90 in A minor
15. Minuet no.23 in C minor
16. Minuet no.38 in A minor
17. Minuet no.98 in C minor
18. Minuet no.48 in F major
19. Minuet no.74 in E minor

Libro Anónimo de Zifra (Lima 1805)
20. Minuet in E minor

Cuaderno de Matías Maestro
21. Largo in B minor

Pedro Ximénez
22. Minuet no.61 in E major

Cuaderno Anónimo de 1830
23. Minuet in D minor

Cuaderno de Matías Maestro
24. Minuet in G minor
25. Fandango in D minor
26. Minuet in G minor

Libro Anónimo de Zifra
27. Tocata in A minor

Cuaderno de Matías Maestro
28. Minuet in A minor

Pedro Ximénez
29. Minuet no.37 in A minor
30. Minuet no.40 in A minor
31. Minuet no.36 in A minor
32. Minuet no.95 in D minor

Cuarderno Anónimo de 1830
33. Minuet in G minor

Pedro Ximénez
34. Minuet no.76 in G minor
35. Minuet no.57 in F minor

Anonimo Libro de Zifra
36. Minuet in C minor

Total Time 74:28