3 Guitars

3 Guitars, presented and performed by David Rogers, features three different eras of guitar music and historical instruments. The sixteenth-century vihuela is featured in the improvisational and sometimes Moorish-inspired music of Renaissance Valencia's Luis Milan. The five-course Baroque guitar is featured in the courtly French dance music of Louis IV's Versailles, represented by the works of Francisco Corbetta and Robert De Visee. A mid-nineteenth century guitar is featured in the classical music of Fernando Sor, in later works by Paraguayan Agustin Barrios Mangore, and in contemporary setting of the traditional African-American spiritual, "There Is A Balm In Gilead". Having Rogers perform these works on the instruments they were intended for and created upon heightens the interpretive and expressive power of the music and gives the performer an inner view of the intentions of each composer.