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

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

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,

Annette Kruisbrink Les Productions D’Oz : Score only 12 pages Here Annette Kruisbrink has written melodies for Sonnets 17, 40 and 66 of Shakespeare, from his total of 154 Sonnets! She has adapted the structure slightly from the original 14 line poem, making them all into a different form without adapting any of the words. Sonnet 17, Who Will Believe My verse in Times to Come, is an Andante set in A minor 6/8with a gently rocking guitar opening before the voice enters at bar 1

Dale Cavanagh Les Productions D’Oz: Score and Separate parts : (11,5, and 7 pages respectively) Here is a considerable piece of writing by Canadian –born Dale Cavanagh dedicated to the ChromaDuo , whose excellent performance you can find on YouTube. The piece tells of a tragic event that happened to a couple who lived in Peggy’s Cove. It begins with harmonic little 4 –note phrase before a steady flow of semi – quavers in guitar 2 plays behind the opening chords and pairs o

David Leisner Doberman – Yppan : score only 23 pages Commissioned for the duo of John Olson and Gioia De Cari, this set of six songs heralds from Mark Twain’s book, The Diary of Adam and Eve. It was written in a theatrical manner as the soprano Gioia De Cari acts as well as sings.The music is modern in style and does involve some complicated guitar work , as well as requiring a very good singer. A Whole Day Old is the opening piece and starts without a key signature which d

Stephen Goss Doberman – Yppan : Score and separate parts ( 12, 7, and 6 pages respectively) Firstly, this is a wonderful piece of writing that has a performance on YouTube by Max Baillie and Francisco Correa that has to be heard to be believed! It is one of the most virtuosic pieces you are ever likely to hear for this combination. Based on Paganini’s theme from the first Centone di Sonate MS112, it is itself a theme and five variations, the last of which is the Finale. It

Jurg Kindle Les Productions D’Oz : Score and separate parts ( 12, 5, and 8 pages respectively ) Jurg Kindle is a well known Swiss guitarist/composer/arranger whose work I have seen a number of times over the years. Here he has written a substantial piece for Doris Orsan and Johannes Tonio Kreusch set in one long movement but consisting of two main sections.(Incidentally this piece also exists in a version for guitar orchestra and violin, which you can find a performance of

Dusan Bogdanovic Doberman – Yppan: Score and Separate Parts: 8, 4, and 4 pages respectively This composer is one of the most well – known in the guitar world with a great many publications and recordings of his works, although interestingly he has written for many other instruments /voices including ballets, piano works and even a work for 16 ceramic gongs in collaboration with Stephen Freedman, sculptor! This latest work, dedicated to the Kupinski Guitar Duo has 4 sections,

Giacomo Susani Doberman – Yppan : Score and separate parts (20, 9 and 12 pages respectively ) Susani, a London – based player, composer, and performer has produced here a three – movement work in a modern but tonal style. It opens with a bouncy rhythmed Allegro Festoso which begins with its first theme in 4/4, but with plenty of cross rhythms, rather than 4 crotchets with the melody beginning on the clarinet accompanied by some colourful chords, before swapping at bar 15 wi

Michel Cardin Bergmann Edition : 32 pages score only This book follows on from my previous review as it has the remaining 10 pieces that Cardin arranged in this manner, from the full batch of about 600 French and Acadian songs collected in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia by archivists Anselme Chiasson and Daniel Boudreau between 1942 and 1993.Their publication had only the melody and the words but no accompaniment, which is what Cardin has done very successfully here. Knowing

Michel Cardin Bergmann Edition: Score only: 32 pages Here are ten songs out of a set of 20 published by Bergmann (Volume 2 has the other 10)which are from approximately 600 French and Acadian folk songs collected in New Brunswick and Nova Scotia by archivists Anselme Chiasson and Daniel Boudreau between 1942 and 1993.They were then subsequently published in 11 volumes by the two men, but with only the melody and the words, so Michel took a lot of pleasure in harmonising the

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

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