In 2009, a large collection of guitar music from the Gitarristische Vereinigung München (‘Munich Guitar Society’) was rediscovered in an attic in Munich. The collection included numerous significant works for guitar that had been long inaccessible with many by neglected composers who are deserving of exploration and revival. Wilhelm Schmoelzl’s Introduction und Variationen exists on the threshold between Classicism and Romanticism, while Adam Darr’s perfectly realised Sonata is notable for its striking use of Alpine folk music. The programme concludes with Carl Kamberger’s witty and surprising Grand Fantasy, with its multitude of quoted themes and unconventional techniques.

This programme for solo guitar is packed with rare and undiscovered repertoire from the Gitarristische Vereinigung München (‘Munich Guitar Society’) archive now housed at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, all as yet still extant only in manuscript form and therefore unknown to the wider guitar community and the world of music in general.