Classical guitarist Domenico Mottola performs Variations sur Folia de España et Fugue by by Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce (1882–1948). This comes via Edoardo Lambertenghi’s YouTube channel. Amazing performance by Mottola with an impressive variety of unique interpretations of each variation. Such a wide array of articulations and virtuosic handling of the textures.
This is one of the major works in the classical guitar repertoire partly for its quality but also for sheer scope. La Folía (Spanish), also folies d’Espagne (French), Follies of Spain (English) or Follia (Italian), is one of the oldest remembered European musical themes and has been the theme of countless sets of variations from composers throughout time.
