20 French – Canadian Children’s Songs for Voice and Guitar Michel Cardin Bergmann Edition:  32 pages (Score only)   This first volume of 20 songs (there is a second volume of 20 more) originated with a number of songs being sung on children’s television that were loved by Hélène Gosselin-Cardin and subsequently collected together with a view to making something out of them. So she asked a number of composers to add a number of others to the list,. Then Michel Cardin provided

Scott Fields Bergmann Edition : Score and separate  flute part : 12 and 4 pages respectively   This composer is a new name to me, but he is an American guitarist who has a number of bands who concentrate on modern elements such as the avant – garde and to a certain extent the experimental music .He also likes mixing notation with improvisation in some works so I was wondering just what I was going to be in for here, with this 90 odd bar piece for flute and guitar. The first t

Francois Couperin  (Arranged for guitar by Michel Cardin) Bergmann Edition : 7 pages   Couperin of course was a Baroque composer  Who played Harpsichord and Organ, and this piece is the fifth piece from the 1st Ordre and arranged for guitar by Michel Cardin. As with much Baroque keyboard music there are a large number of ornamental notes in multiple patterns throughout this piece, which do of course add to the difficulty of playing this fine piece.To give you an example the

MALATS Y MIARONS : Serenata Espanola:NARVAEZ: Diferencias on Guardame las Vacas ; Canción del Emperador (sobre "Mille Regretz" de Josquin des Prez) : LLOBET: Canco de Lladre (Thief's song) : El Testament d'Amelia (Amelia's Testament)  SOR:  Variations on a Scottish Theme, ‘Ye Banks and Braes o' Bonnie Doon’, Op. 40 : VILLA – LOBOS:   Suite populaire brésilienne: 2. Schottish-Chôro ;  Prelude No. 1: Homenagem ao sertanejo brasileiro ; Prelude No. 2: Homenagem ao Malandro Cario