Guitar recital by Yiannis Efstathopoulos at

The... "secrets" of the Spanish guitar together with the "forgotten" works of the Generation of '27 in Spain, became the basis of the double recital entitled "The exiled guitar" by the guitarist-researcher Yiannis Efstathopoulos at MOMus-Museum of Modern Art-Costakis Collection, in Moni Lazariston, in Thessaloniki. The event was coorganised with the Instituto Cervantes in Athens, as part of the exhibition on show at the Museum under the title “Pablo Picasso: Exile and Nostalgia”.
In the two-day musical journey-recital we discovered the composers-victims of the disasters of the Spanish Civil War, who were murdered or expelled by the Franco regime. Their music opened a dialogue with the traditional music of Andalusiaand flirted with French impressionism.
The first works for guitar written by non-guitarist composers, such as Manuel de Falla, Julián Bautista, Gustavo Pittaluga, Antonio José, Roberto Gerhard and others, represent the pioneering generation in which Federico García Lorca starred, at a time when the guitar was looking for its identity and place, in the art-music of Spain and Europe in general.