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

Lovland Rolf U. And Skavlan Petter arranged for guitar by Angelos Tsoutsis Bergmann: 8 pages I knew this tune straight away, and realised that when I had heard it before it had some words, but couldn’t bring it to mind. Turns out it was a piece of music by Secret Garden called Nocturne. This version for solo guitar uses the dropped D 6th as it is in D minor. Immediately it seems a little difficult in one or two stretches but they are easily got round with a bit of work. If

C.E.F.Weyse/Carl Nielsen Arranged by Laif Moller Lauridsen Bergmann Edition: Score and Separate Parts 20, 8, and 8 pages respectively C –instruments , as the title of this book illustrates, are non- transposing instruments such as the string family, oboes, flutes (in C) and recorders. This will tell you therefore that the guitar 1 part is a single note score throughout. The second part however is for a normal guitar and although it is largely accompaniment throughout, it

Michel Cardin Bergmann Edition : Score only :32 pages Here is the second book of these children’s songs. Nos. 21 – 40 are presented here. Michel’s wife Helene started the ball rolling with the idea for this set of piece. Previously she ran a day care centre in Moncton, Acadia and sang numerous songs to these children. She got 14 from a children’s TV programme that she watched when a child. After that she asked several songwriters to add some more new ones. Then she got her

Michel Cardin Bergmann Edition : Score and Separate Parts , 36, 16 and 20 pages respectively Michel Cardin is well known in the musical world as a guitarist, a lutenist, a composer, arranger and many other things. Here he has written five Romances for flute and guitar. The first one is set in 6/8 in the friendly guitar key of E Minor. The guitar is largely concerned here with arpeggiated quavers and a bass note underneath, whilst the flute has a very melodic and friendly tun

Mark Houghton Les Productions D’Oz: Score and separate parts -20, 9, and 9 pages respectively Liverpool – born Mark, now lives in Winchester, in a village called Shedfield, hence the title. The work is in three movements and is dedicated to the Roth Guitar Duo of Sam Rodwell and Emma Smith. The opening movement, Festival is based on him hearing the remote sounds of the Wickham Music Festival , held outdoors and mixed with the church bells that are local to him. It begins wi

Benjamin Verdery Doberman – Yppan : 39 pages This extensive piece is, on the face of it, in two movements but with a number of themes cropping up in both. Not only that there are a few features of this piece that set it apart from most other pieces I have seen, namely, the way you have to set your guitar up first.The open strings are, from bottom to top, D, G, D, A, Bb, and E, but with the added instruction to place a capo on strings 1 to 5, in the first movement, leaving t

Louis Trepanier Les Productions D’Oz: 7 pages Here is one from a set of twelve concert studies, all published separately by D’Oz. This really is a study in every sense of the word, as there are numerous technical obstacles the player has to overcome before getting to grips with this piece, even though it is harmonically very clever and always interesting. The opening section is marked Lento, liberamente with a zero time signature, simply because everything is very free temp

Francis Kleynjans Les Productions d’Oz : 20 pages Here is a set of ten pieces from this French composer, who has written hundreds of works for guitar, as witnessed by the Opus Numbers of each of these pieces, ranging from Op416 to Op438,( although a few Opus numbers are not used in this set of 10). I have seen many pieces from this composer and they are always very playable, extremely melodic and full of nice harmonies and interesting fingerings that are not always what you

Jean – Maurice Mourat Les Productions D’Oz : Score and separate parts : 11, 6, and 6 pages respectively This is a set of a theme and twelve variations is based on the well – known Folia D’Espagne, that essentially is an ostinato bass line and a consistent set of specific harmonies in a sequence. Many composers have used this in the past, including Bach and Ponce. The theme is set as a 3 / 4 Lento, already varied from the version you may have come across before. It is immed

Arnaud Dumond Les Productions D’Oz: 16 pages This book of 12 moderately easy studies is part of a three book set that ranges up to difficult pieces by the end. I have already seen and reviewed the first book a couple of years ago, that was marked simply ‘easy’, and which I had nothing but good things to say about it This latest book is every bit as good as the previous one, with the first thing you notice being how varied the genres and techniques are that he uses and that th

Chris Reubens Les Productions D’Oz : Score and separate parts 7, 4 and 2 pages respectively) This is the second of three Fantasies that Belgian born Reubens has composed to date, the other two being simply for guitar. Apparently the piece initiates from improvisation and also includes improvisational ideas during the development of the piece, resulting in a work that has many emotional sides to it. Set in ED Major as a Larghetto , it opens with a four bar guitar introduction,