This programme presents the first integral recording of the complete published and manuscript duets by the Catalan master José Ferrer, last of the charismatic Romantic guitarist-composers, whose light-touched skill at creating music of elegance, charm and nuanced shading made him a darling of cultured society. Taking us from languorous dances to the glamour of Italian grand opera, this is mesmerisingly beautiful music redolent of a lost era of soirées and gallantry, Iberian salons and forgotten Parisian boudoirs.