Album Notes

The CD takes you through the centuries of guitar music from Renaissance Spain and Baroque German masters to 20th century Brazil, Venezuela and Paraguay.

To the title 're-issued':
I had promised to re-issue a cassette (the 'Blue Cassette, 1990) after being harassed to do so for more than a year by parents telling me, that their child would not go to sleep without it. I had the good old master reel and added to the collection my two favourite tracks from an earlier LP 'Alte und neue Musik fur klassische Gitarre' (Lueneburg 1983): Weiss Fantasy and Dowland's Queen Elizabeth Galliard.
On the 1983 recorded pieces I play a 'Kohno 30' guitar, on the 1990 recording a guitar made by Juan Lopez Aguilarte (Granada, Spain). The beautiful timbre of the guitars comes out very well.

Top downloads:
1 Anonymus - Spanish Romance ("Jeux interdit")
2 I.Albeniz - Asturias
3 J.S.Bach - Allemande

Georg's Favorite:
Villa-Lobos - Prelude IV

website: www.georgcello.com

Biography:
German born Georg Mertens is a virtuoso of guitar and cello. He studied the guitar with Prof. Anton Stingl at the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik in Freiburg / Germany. He has performed hundreds of solo concerts across Europe and Australia.
You can hear Georg playing the guitar also on the CD's: 'Blue Mountains Gypsies', 'An Hour in Heaven' and 'Sounds of Timber'.