Hit Parade
Opera hits by Mozart, Verdi, and Rossini in virtuoso guitar miniatures by Frank Bungarten, the first guitarist of our times to take on the ultimate challenge of recording these first- rank arrangement cycles in their full length and without simplification, exclusively on MDG.

Home Opera
Arrangements allowing for the repeated home performance of music that otherwise could be heard only during the fleeting pleasure of a night at the opera were sold by the hundreds and circulated far and wide during the nineteenth century. This wildfire phenomenon stands unique in music history; not even the pop music of the 1960s is a match for it.

Spellbinding
The compositions brought together here focus on the brilliant bravura pieces with which traveling virtuoso idols held their nineteenth-century public spellbound while also offering a glimpse at the contemplative-curious musical fare performed by well-to-do young ladies.

Prizewinning
Frank Bungarten numbers among the most highly regarded guitarists of the younger generation. Andrés Segovia himself awarded him the first prize at the International Guitar Competition in Granada in 1981.