Mauro Giuliani was known throughout the music world as the InchMozart of the guitarInch. The vocal works recorded on this recording testify to Giuliani's preference for Italian songs. Especially in the Sei Ariette or InchLittle AriasInch, a more modest form of the opera aria, the resemblance to the Italian bel canto aria is unmistakable. The selection presented here was published in 1818 in Vienna. In contrast to this, Giuliani's Sechs Lieder, or InchSix SongsInch, with their German texts by Goethe, Schiller, Matthisson and others, are clearly more similar to Schubert's Lieder. Published in 1817 in Vienna, these songs bear witness to the birth of the Viennese Biedermeier period. Finally, the Sei Cavatine consist of six Italian arias, in which Giuliani contrasts skillfully brilliant pieces with sensitive melancholic ones, and this in a clearly opera-like . Album Tracks 1. Sei Ariette di Metastasio, Op. 95~No.1. Ombre amene 2. Sei Ariette di Metastasio, Op. 95~No. 2 Fra tutte le pene 3. Sei Ariette di Metastasio, Op. 95~No. 3 Quando sarà quel di 4. Sei Ariette di Metastasio, Op. 95~No. 4 Le dimore amor non ama 5. Sei Ariette di Metastasio, Op. 95~No. 5 Ad altro Iaccio 6. Sei Ariette di Metastasio, Op. 95~No. 6 Di due bell'anime 7. Sechs Lieder, Op. 89~No. 1 Abschied 8. Sechs Lieder, Op. 89~No. 2 Lied aus der Ferne 9. Sechs Lieder, Op. 89~No. 3 Abschied 10. Sechs Lieder, Op. 89~No. 4 Lied 11. Sechs Lieder, Op. 89~No. 5 Ständchen 12. Sechs Lieder, Op. 89~No. 6 An das Schicksal 13. Sei Cavatine , Op. 39~No. 1 Par che di giubilo l'alma deliri 14. Sei Cavatine , Op. 39~No. 2 Confuso, smarrito 15. Sei Cavatine , Op. 39~No. 3 Alle mie tante lagrime 16. Sei Cavatine , Op. 39~No. 4 Ah! Non dir che non t'adoro 17. Sei Cavatine , Op. 39~No. 5 Ch'io sent'amor per femine 18. Sei Cavatine , Op. 39~No. 6 Già presso al termine