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Tonar Music announces the re-release of Manuel Barrueco’s BACH SONATAS, (Tonar 20315) originally released on EMI Classics in 1997. The BACH SONATAS cd, which has been out of print for some years, will be available on TonarMusic.com. In addition, Tonar Music has available Barrueco’s published arrangement for solo guitar.

Tonar Music anuncia el lanzamiento de BACH SONATAS de Manuel Barrueco (Tonar 20315) originalmente publicado en 1997 por EMI Classics. El BACH SONATAS, que ha sido fuera de catálogo hace unos años, se puede comprar en TonarMusic.com. Además, Tonar Music tiene disponible la transcripción de Barrueco para guitarra sola.

In a ceremony in Santa Monica, CA on December 5, 2011, Manuel Barrueco was awarded the United States Artists Fellowship for Artistic Excellence!

Read the whole story here: www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/arts/bs-ae-artist-awards-20111205,0,5537322.story

Tonar Music^© proudly announces that TÁRREGA! – featuring internationally renowned guitarist Manuel Barrueco – has received a Latin GRAMMY nomination in the category Best Classical Album. The winner will be announced at the 12^th Annual Latin GRAMMY Awards celebration, to be held in Las Vegas on November 10, 2011.

TÁRREGA! contains compositions and arrangements by the Spanish composer and guitarist, Francisco Tárrega.

“This recording is intended to be a portrait of Tárrega. I included many of his most beautiful compositions, as well as transcriptions that demonstrate the wide scope of his musical taste,” says Barrueco. The new CD includes Tárrega’s most beloved compositions Capricho Árabe and Recuerdos de la Alhambra, as well as Lágrima and Adelita.

“On a personal note, working on this recording has flooded me with many memories of my past, similar to when I recorded ¡Cuba!. Tárrega’s music was one of the reasons I fell in love with the guitar when I was a young boy, and so many of these pieces come with inseparable memories of people and places from my childhood. I was only eleven years old when I would frequently play Danza Mora, Capricho Árabe, and Recuerdos de la Alhambra in recitals!” says Barrueco.

 “TÁRREGA!” is available on www.TonarMusic.com.

Manuel Barrueco's arrangement of the "Tango-Etudes" by Astor Piazzolla are available.  Look for them on TonarMusic.com.

Puerto Rican composer Roberto Sierra has written a new Sonata for Manuel Barrueco.  The new work will be premiered in March 2011 at the Pablo Casals Festival in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

In this podcast Jonathan Palevsky and Manuel Barrueco discuss the new recording, Tárrega!

Manuel Barrueco will premiere a new composition for solo guitar written for him by Dmitri Yanov-Yanovsky during his fall 2010 concerts. The new work is called "A little lute music in memory of John Dowland". For more information on the composer, please click on the link below.

Web Link: www.composers21.com/compdocs/yanov_yd.htm

In the November 2010 issue of Classical Guitar Magazine, Therese Wassily Saba interviews Manuel Barrueco in a feature article. For more information on Classical Guitar Magazine on Facebook, click on the link below.

Web Link: www.facebook.com/classicalguitarmagazine?ref=ts

"INCA DANCES" by Gabriela Lena Frank has received a Latin GRAMMY Award for "Best Classical Contemporary Composition!"

The work's world-premiere recording is on the "SOUNDS OF THE AMERICAS" CD with Manuel Barrueco and Cuarteto Latinoamericano.

"INCA DANCES" was commissioned by the Baltimore Classical Guitar Society, with grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Peabody Conservatory of Music.  

Manuel Barrueco performed the "Concierto de Aranjuez" with the Singapore Chinese Orchestra conducted by Tsung Yeh. In addition, he performed in duo with the Chinese zhongruan player Xing Liu, the Vivaldi double concerto for two mandolins.

Manuel Barrueco will be performing his version of Manolo Sanlúcar's "Medea" for guitar and orchestra, this fall. This photo is taken in Córdoba this past July, where they discussed the new version and gave the few diners at the local café a private concert!

Here is a new article on a travel to Ankara, Turkey in April 2008.

PDF File: Ontheroad-April2008.pdf