Fernando Sor | Marche Funèbre à la mort de S.M. l’Empereur Aléxandre (world premiere recording)

Pianist Maria Männikkö performs Fernando Sor’s (1778-1839) Marche Funèbre à la mort de S.M. l’Empereur Aléxandre (world premiere recording). In October 2022, as an artistic director of the Turku Guitar Festival, I organized a concert in Sibelius museum (In Turku, Finland) dedicated to the chamber music of Fernando Sor. As some of you may have noticed, I’ve myself recorded a lot of Sor’s guitar music in recent years on my YouTube channel, so I felt necessary to document these chamber works on my channel as those included also world premiere performances/recordings. I was happy that my fellow Lecturer at the Turku Conservatory the concert pianist Maria Männikkö, who has done a Doctorate of Music on the Spanish piano music, agreed to take part in this project of the Spanish composer Sor. As far as I know, “Marche Funèbre à la mort de S.M. l’Empereur Aléxandre” is recorded here for the first time. This Funeral March displays Sor