O’CAROLAN : First Two Pieces After Turlough O’Carolan – Shebeg and Shemor; Irish Suite After O’Carolan –1) Hewlett 2) George Brabazon; Carolan’s Farewell to Music ;A Jig : HROMEK : Suite 1) Prelude; 2) Pilgrimage; 3) March ; Double Obstinacy (At The Five Bells) ; Dances From Old Narnia – Part Two – Rondo #2; Pieces of Eight ; The Fall of a Chieftain : TRADITIONAL : Two Irish Ballads – Fanaid Grove; To Scotland , England ( Westward Bound , Suita); Three English Ballads – T

Book 1 The first thing to say is that the first book’s initial introduction to playing and reading music is very detailed. Although I can see that that would be necessary it does take considerable reading. Having said that the place where the player starts actually plucking the open strings is very carefully done and, with a teacher to oversee it all, I can see that it is a very useful way to begin. (I did however think that the section on page 13 of how to tune a guitar sh

EDWARD SIMON : El Manicero ( The Peanut Seller): NICO ROJAS : Guyun – El Maestro; En El Abra Del Yumurí (In Yumuri Bay) ; Francito Y Alfonsito ; Lilliam ; Guajira A Mi Madre (Guajira For My Mother): CARLOS FARINAS : Preludio ; Canción Triste (Sad Song): ALDO RODRIGUEZ: Cancion ; Danza: HAROLD GRAMATGEZ : Suite Breve (Preludio; Alemanda;Siciliana, Sarabanda; Minuetto):LEO BROUWER: Cancion de Cuna ( Berceuse);Zapateo; Ojos Brujos: HECTOR ANGULO: Cantos Yoruba de Cuba : (Asokere

D’AGOSTINO : Grand Canyon; Mediterranean Spark; Costa Rica; The Blue Ocean; Running Wild; Under The Same Sky; The Dancer; Close to Heaven; Western Journey; Desert Flower; Mother’s Tears; The Genie; Lagavullin; Born In The Sea. Peppino D’Agostino Favoured Nations Entertainment: FNA 5020-2 Here is an album where every track is written by our player, who is playing in a classical manner on an acoustic guitar. The first thing that hits you is how fabulous a player this man is.

LAURO : Virgilio; Romanza: RUIZ – PIPO : Cancion y Danza No1: DUARTE: Appalachian Dreams Op121: TAKEMITSU : Londonderry Air: GISMONTI : Agua e Vinho : RAMON Y RIVERA: Brisas del Tobes: LECUONA: Canto Siboney: SAN SEBASTIAN: Preludio No6 – Dolor: TARREGA: Recuerdos de la Alhambra: SHEMER: Four Songs: THEODORAKIS: Two Epitaphios: THIAGO DE MELLO: Varre – Vento: GRANADOS : Dedicatoria. Sharon Isbin CD: Teldec : 3984 – 25736 – 2 . Here is a very varied recital from Sharon Isbin

TRAD: Morning Has Broken; House of the Rising Sun; Scarborough Fair: LENNON: Imagine: CHRISTOPHER/JAMES/THOMPSON: Always on my Mind: JOHN/TAUPIN: Candle in the Wind: PAGE/PLANT: Stairway to Heaven: BROOKER/REID: A Whiter Shade of Pale: CLAPTON/JENNINGS: Tears in Heaven: LENNON/ONO: Oh My Love: CLAPTON: Wonderful Tonight: NORGE: Beautiful Scenery: HENLEY/FREY: Wasted Time: LARSEN: Som Et Strejf. Kaare Norge (Guitar) with Kassandra Kvartetten and Kontra Kvartetten CMC RECORDS

DOMINGUEZ: A Dona Cata – Gato Puyano; Pasando Los Diaz - Gato: GUARANY :El Vino Aquel; Cuandro Vuelva La Nieve: DOMINGUEZ / GUARANI : Cancion Para Mi Guitarra Sola: MENDEZ: Milonga Veraz; KAY / VALLE: Promesas – vals: ORTEGA: Milonga de Ellos: ZAVALA: Polainas Blancas – Milongon: ZAMORA: Del Plumerillo: BARDI: Que Noce!: GRELA: Setiembre Color; Choro En La: DE CARO / LINYERA: Boedo – Tango: TROILO: La Trampera: AROLAS: Maipo – Tango : CANARO : La Tablada – Tango: GARDEL / L

ALFONSO Y ZABALA: El 180: ARMANDO TEJADA GOMEZ and TITO FRANCIA: Zamba Azul: MOYANO: Gato Nomas; Vidala; Chelik: FALU: Sanjuanino Soy (a la memoria de Coco Ruffa) ;El Estrecho; Que Lo Diga El Rio: CARLOS GUASTAVINO: Pueblito mi pueblo : RAFAEL ROSSI/TRAD : Viva Jujuy: HOMERO MANZI and SEBASTIAN PIANA: Silbando: ANDRES CHAZZARRETA :La Lopez Pereira: CARLOS MONTBRUN OCAMPO and OSVALDO VICENTE ROCHA: Las Dos Puntas: JULIAN ANTONIO ‘ CACHILO’ DIAZ and SOKO: La Vieja: TRAD: La Ca

STEVEN MEREDITH EDWARDS EL Chino; Tears In The Rain; Desert Flower; Lotus Flower; Wildflower; Fuego Loco ;El Gato Malo; Arco; Cafe Triste; Tango de Reve; Siempre ; Ride Guitarra Azul CD personal production, available from numerous sites including CDBaby Here is an eight piece band, with guitars, percussion, violins, accordion and bass playing in a very Latin style, and at times crossing over to almost Flamenco too. All the pieces are written by guitarist Steven Meredith Edw

BEATLES: Michelle, Penny Lane, The Long and Winding Road, When I'm Sixty-four, Get Back, Here, There and Everywhere, I Need You, Yesterday, And I Love Her, Revolution, Drive My Car, I Will, Help, Eleanor Rigby, Tomorrow, Norwegian Wood, If I Fell, From Me To You,Let it Be, Medley. Pedro Javier Gonzalez Konga Music ;CXCD216 I reviewed some time ago, this player’s Guitarra 2 which was a wide mixture of many different composers and writers, but all still very well – known to t

MOMPOU: Musica Callada – 1.Angelico: TOSCANO: Crystal I, II, III, and IV: CAMAHORT: Alba Nova: ASENCIO: Suite Mistica 1) Getsemani 2) Dipso 3) Pentecostes: ALBENIZ: Suite Iberia; a) Almeria; b) El Albaicin: SMAILI: Il Faisait Encore Nuit. La Buhardilla Records: LBR – 016. All the tracks on this latest album by Spanish player/composer Toscano have a certain depth about them , no matter who the composer is. Frederic Mompou’s track from his suite Musica Callada, is new to me.

STEPHEN GOSS: From Honey To Ashes ; La Catedral Sumergida; Welsh Folksongs; The Autumn Song; American Pastoral; The Sea of the Edge; First Milonga Last Tango. Francisco Correa (Guitar) and Emily Andrews (Flute) Deux – Elles DXL 1204 This is a double CD with nearly 87 minutes of the complete works for flute and guitar by Stephen Goss, played by this husband and wife team. CD1: The title suite From Honey to Ashes is an eleven movement suite, but mostly with very short durat

REIS: Se Ela Perguntar ,Eterna Saudade: SANTORSOLA: Preludio, No1 a Serie ‘Suite a Antiga’:DE FALLA: Homenaje A Debussy: BARRIOS MANGORE: Julia Florida ; Mazurka Appassionata: BROUWER: Tarantos ; Canticum Sarantis Agianoglou 10552784 Records DK This recording is available from all the usual digital companies, Spotify, Amazon, YouTube Music and others. Looking at the titles, you can see that they are mostly Latin American pieces, many of which the majority of you might very we

Leonid Hrabovsky Duma Music : 39 pages Leonid Hrabovsky is a Ukrainian composer, born 1935, now living in the USA. Over the years he has written a great many pieces for all manner of combinations of instruments and voices but this book has his entire guitar solo works, which amount to 13 different pieces, spread over 4 actual works. The Night Blues is the first one. It is set in B Major and this one immediately has an opening page that is a mixture of octaves with the t

Joop Klein Goldewijk Bergmann Edition : 16 pages Goldewijk is a Dutch guitarist/composer (and also a painter).Here he has written a set of three pieces for our instrument that are moderately difficult, but not too much so. They are melodic and have, mostly a pattern that you will recognise. The Road is the first one, a three pager, set in 4/4 at 140 crotchets a minute, and having mostly a quaver rhythm with a crotchet usually at beat 4.After that the rhythm of the six quave

Nelly Decamp Les Productions D’OZ: 7 pages Here are three pieces that were inspired by Nelly Decamp’s life in Brasilia, a place where she lived for a while. Concha Acustica (Acoustic Shell) is a place that she discovered after a concert that had wonderful acoustics amid lovely scenery. The shortest of the three pieces it is a Largo, Libre et Sonore full of long exotic chords interspersed with some faster lines of melody that is a great start to this set. At the end of bar 1

Michel Cardin (arrangements and variations) Bergmann Edition: 12 pages Having just reviewed one of this man’s books for Baroque Lute, and saying that this was a rarity for me on my site, here is another, perhaps even rarer! It is a book of two pieces arranged for a Theorbo in A, and again is in tablature entirely. The first piece was written by James Oswald in the 18th Century and is a tune many of you will definitely know, Barbara Allan, and being the instrument that it is,

Michel Cardin Bergmann Edition: 12 pages Here is a rarity for my web – site, a pair of arrangements for solo baroque lute in tablature of two pieces that many of you will certainly know. There is a wonderful performance incidentally of Michel playing them in concert on his Baroque lute, and if any of you have never heard one of these marvellous instrument with their huge dynamic range, then give yourself 3 ½ minutes to listen . I am quite sure that having one of these instrum

Laurent Meneret Les Productions D’Oz : 12 pages There are seven pieces here, all quite different and all having a very musical sound, and sometimes not always moving melodically the way you might expect .Moreover they are not too difficult, so will suit the relatively modest players amongst you. Vagabondages incidentally means Wanderings, which does aptly describe the pieces when you play them. Au Fil de L’eau (Along the water) is a 4/4 in D Major, and a modest 69 crotchets

Laurent Meneret Les Productions D’Oz : 7 pages These two waltzes are modest in size and not too difficult to play and are dedicated to two of his family. Firstly, La Valse de Rose is dedicated to his granddaughter Rose and is set in E Minor at the speed of 46 dotted minims a minute. It is immediately quite pleasant to play and something that many will enjoy, especially as it doesn’t have modern harmonies as such, but is set in a style which players will enjoy. The style is