Castelnuovo-tedesco: Platero Y Yo, Op. 190

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Label: EMEC
Catalog: EMEC124/5
Format: CD

Liolios, Catherine

Platero and I is the masterpiece of one of Spain's foremost 20th century poets, Juan Ramon Jimenez, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1956. Deeply inspired by this collection of 138 prose poems, Italian compose Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco carefully selected 28 of these poems and set them to music in the 1960's. Guitarist Catherine Liolios was born in Paris in 1969. She studied under Spanish masters Jose-Maria Sierra and Alberto Ponce, and appears regularly as a soloist at major festivals across Europe.

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