Leonardo Balada

b.1933 · Contemporary · 27 works · classical guitar repertoire

Style: Nationalist · Modernist · Avant-garde

The Guitar Events repertoire database lists 27 guitar works by Leonardo Balada (b.1933), from the contemporary repertoire. The catalogue files this music under Nationalist and Modernist and Avant-garde. Typical performance times run from about 2 minutes for Analogias to about 22 minutes for Persistencies: Sinfonia Concertante for Guitar and Orchestra. 2 of the works run to eight minutes or more and can anchor a recital group, while 4 stay under three minutes. The list takes in 3 concertos. Recordings are linked for 12 of the 27 works.

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