This album features the classical guitar in the hands of a Cuban virtuoso interpreting the contemporary guitar music of three Caribbean composers, Trinidadian Dominique Le Gendre and Cubans Walfrido Dominguez and Flores Chaviano, along with a Welsh composer, Stephen Goss, whose “Sonatina” is given its first complete recording here. Six substantial multi-movement pieces spread across 22 tracks, their rhythmic intensity easing smoothly into soulful tenderness. Le Gendre’s “Tongoy Triptych for 2 Guitars” features Cárdenas and British guitarist Helen Sanderson as duet partners with great beauty of tone and precision. And the music subtly highlights the guitar’s ability to locate Caribbean folk rhythms, moods, and colours within a classical context.