Utwory na płycie:

• Sonatina meridional - Allegro no troppo
• Sonatina meridional - Andante
• Sonatina meridional - Vivace
• Thème varié et Finale - Andante un po' mosso
• Thème varié et Finale - Variation 1: Vivo
• Thème varié et Finale - Variation 2: Agitato
• Thème varié et Finale - Variation 3: Molto più lento
• Thème varié et Finale - Variation 4: Allegro moderato
• Thème varié et Finale - Variation 5: Allegro appassionato
• Thème varié et Finale - Variation 6: Molto moderato
• Thème varié et Finale - Variation 7: Vivo con anima
• Thème varié et Finale - Variation 8: Allegro moderato ma energico
• Thème varié et Finale - Variation 9: Più moderato
• Thème varié et Finale - Finale: Vivi scherzando
• 8 Préludes - Allegretto vivo cis-moll
• 8 Préludes - Allegretto E-Dur
• 8 Préludes - Agitato g-moll
• 8 Préludes - Allegretto G-Dur
• 8 Préludes - Andantino mosso As-Dur
• 8 Préludes - Allegro e-moll
• 8 Préludes - Andante f-moll
• 8 Préludes - Vivo A-Dur
• Sonate Nr. 3 - 1. Allegro moderato
• Sonate Nr. 3 - 2. Andante (Chanson)
• Sonate Nr. 3 - 3. Allegro non troppo
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Thema: Lento
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 1: Poco vivo
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 2: Allegretto mosso
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 4: Un poco agitato
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 7: Andante
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 10: Prestissimo
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 9: Andantino affettuoso
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 14: Allegro non troppo
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 15: Allegro moderato energico
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 16: Moderato
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 6: Allegretto espressivo
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 12: Animato, ritmico
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 18: Allegro scherzando
• Variationen und Fuge über "La Folia de Espana" - Variation 17: Allegro ma non troppo

Sonatina meridional (Paris 1932)
Theme varié et Finale (Paris 1926)
8 Préludes (Paris 1929)
Sonata III (Paris 1927)
Variations sur »La Folia de Espana« et Fugue (Paris 1929)

Early recognized as a child prodigy, Manuel Ponce received his musical education first in his native Mexico, but then also in Italy and Germany. An important influence on Ponce was the folklore of Mexico, which he transferred into art music against much resistance and thus shaped a new Mexican national style. Ponce's meeting with the guitarist Andre Segovia in 1923 was groundbreaking - from then on the guitar was at the centre of Ponce's work.

During his time in Paris - Ponce decided in 1925 (at the age of 41) to go back to Europe to study with Paul Dukas - most of his guitar pieces were written. In 2000 Tilman Hoppstock recorded a selection of the most important pieces of this creative period in an excellent recording. He partly used Ponce's manuscripts for this purpose, which differ in many points from the notes published up to that time. This recording, which has been out of print for many years, is finally available again on this CD.

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Recordings: 1/1998 [23]-[25], 11/1998 [26]-[41], 7/1999 [4]-[22], 6/2000 [1]-[3], Prim-Musikstudio Darmstadt. Guitar: Robert S. Ruck (1983). Tilman Hoppstock uses strings by d’Addario.