Guitar Works: Tobalina

LEOPOLDO DE URCULLU (1830-1843)
Guitar Music

La Amistad: Introduccion y Polaca
Introducción, variaciones y coda sobre un tema de “Guglielmo Tell” de Rossini
Tema con variaciones, Op. 10
Cavatina en la opera “Belisario” de Donizetti
La Queja: Introducción, variaciones y coda
Capriccio sobre aires de “La straniera” de Bellini y de “L’esule di Roma” de Donizetti
Introducción y variaciones sobre un tema de “Il pirata” de Bellini.

Eugenio Tobalina, Guitar

Recording: 27-28 July 2006, 22 February, 5, 6, 26 April 2007
El Canton de la Soledad Estudios, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain

Of the many mysteries that surround the history of the guitar, perhaps one of the most fascinating is that which shrouds the enigmatic figure of the nineteenth-century Spanish composer Leopoldo de Urcullu. We know virtually nothing about the man or his life, though he left a legacy of some quite extraordinary music revealing a guitarist who has been unjustly and inexcusably forgotten and whose life and works deserve to be far more widely investigated, disseminated and appreciated.