Serenata Morisca - Agustín Barrios

. The piece itself is rather reminiscent of Tárrega's lovely Capricho Arabe. Morisca mean here former Muslims who converted or were coerced into converting to Christianity, after Spain finally outlawed the open practice of Islam by its sizeable Muslim population (termed mudéjar) in the early 16th century.The large majority of those permanently expelled settled on the western fringe of the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Morocco. The last mass prosecution against Moriscos for crypto Islamic practices occurred in Granada in 1727
A critic for the Guatemalan paper Nuestro
Diario observed:
"The Indian sits, strokes his instrument in a strangely smooth manner and begins. The program does not seem to be in agreement with the situation - it indicates that the indian feels he is a musician, and that he wants to give the best he can, but, my God! That savage wants to play Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin on the guitar! It seems a sacrilege. We expect a disaster, a fatal musical calamity.
He plays a Serenata Morisca of his own composition. On the mark. Another of his compositions, andante and allegretto. Notable. A Chilean dance. The enthusiasm mounts. Little by little the audience warms up. The guitar becomes a piano, violin, flute, mandolin, drum. There is nothing that this man can't do on the guitar. At times it seems the guitar plays itself. ..
The applause grows, and increases with each piece until at the end of the performance the public is shouting "encore" to which he replies "thank you", simply thank you."
Six Silver Moonbeams - The Life and Times of Agustin Barrios Mangore

[@MultiBadboy666]

Wow this piece is great, how come it's so little known?

[@lawcch]

newly discovered music from Agustin Barrios?

[@worldofmakam]

Nope, this is sadly very little known but not newly discovered, i think truly this is one of his best.

[@ecoelectricbandmorelia5347]

Quién interpreta la pieza?

[@worldofmakam]

Enea Leone