Acclaimed guitarist Christophe Dejour brings together four works that were premiered many years after they were composed, due to unpredictable and, in some cases, fateful circumstances. Both Óscar Esplá’s ground-breaking Tempo di Sonata and Ignace Strasfogel’s monumental Prelude, Elegie and Rondo were written for Andrés Segovia but remained hidden for decades, while Alois Hába’s neglected Guitar Sonata is a fantastic work of the highest musical quality. Antonio José’s music was banned under the Franco regime in Spain, yet his extraordinary Guitar Sonata, composed in 1933 and only rediscovered in the late 1980s, is revealed as a true masterpiece.

Christophe Dejour’s arrangements of music by Albéniz (8557064) and Granados (8557709) performed by Trio Campanella have won much acclaim, and his album The Art of the Classical Guitar (8574259) presented his outstanding technique in world-premiere arrangements of music by J.S. Bach, Gesualdo, Berg and Bartók.

Dejour has invested much time in research and investigative work to locate the manuscripts that have made Tales of Fate possible, and his practicality in modifying and revising some aspects of these scores to make them more playable will hopefully see these pieces taking on a more prominent role among the guitar’s standard repertoire in the future.

Christophe Dejour was born in Copenhagen in 1968 and educated at The Royal Danish Academy of Music as well as the École Normale de Musique in Paris where he studied with Alberto Ponce. Dejour has premiered works by Danish composers both in Denmark and abroad. He has appeared on radio and television, as well as on recordings of new Danish music. He has also worked as a concert organiser on several occasions and arranged music for the theatre. In 1997 Dejour founded the guitar ensemble Trio Campanella, which received international acclaim.