Robert Johnson Alman

Bridget Mermikides presents a piece that’s not only a classic example of the late Renaissance style, but also one that can boast bona fide dramatic credentials.

- Bridget Mermikides

Although the classical guitar is a relative newcomer to the family of western ‘classical’ instruments, it has a distant relative (or at least a kindred spirit) in the lute. With a somewhat similar tone, tuning system, shape and being one of the few other instruments with a direct finger-to-string playing technique, it is natural and perhaps inevitable that so much lute music has been adapted to the guitar. Practitioners in the early 20th century were keen to expand and enrich the guitar’s repertoire and give it a body of works by earlier composers: a kind of ‘adopted authenticity’.