Albéniz’s twelve-movement piano work, Suite Iberia, scored here for three guitars, is often regarded as as the definitive masterpiece of Spanish music of the twentieth century. Written between 1905 and 1908, it is an ambitious and remarkably sophisticated work based on traditional Spanish dance rhythms, and although not specifically programmatic is highly evocative of Spanish life. Debussy wrote enthusiastically of this piece “Never has music achieved such diversified, such colourful impressions: one’s eyes close, as though dazzled by beholding such a wealth of imagery”.