Atanas Ourkouzounov Doberman Yppan :32 pages This latest book by Bulgarian Ourkouzounov is a set of 15 relatively short pieces that use musical ideas that firstly are not often used in teaching material, and secondly provide an opening to this composer’s more advanced material of which there are many books available The sort of material he is writing here that rarely sees the light of day in tutor books is for example, in Septlude, that is a piece of 7/8, Dialogue Modale ,

Yorgos Nousis Doberman – Yppan : 8 pages Here is an interesting set of pieces by this Greek player/composer/arranger. They are useful, melodic and not too difficult to play and so could be enjoyed by a multitude of players. I must say that the opening piece Danceuphoria has something in it that I have NEVER seen before in my 63 years of playing the guitar, the time signature of 27/8, that opens this piece! t is alternated with several bars of 7/8., and just in case you are

David Leisner Doberman – Yppan : 11 pages I have seen other pieces by this composer/ performer a number of times before, and yet I do not remember any of them being quite like this piece. It is in 4 short movements but the main structure of this work is its absolutely modern sound. The first movement, Empty Your Mind , is completely arrhythmic in the sense that you are instructed to play the various boxed notes in whatever rhythm you feel like and to time it all with your

Luc Levesque Les Productions D’Oz : Score and separate parts (12, 3, 3, 3, and 3 pages respectively) Part of the Collection Chuck Hulihan this very attractive piece of writing can be found recorded by Hulihan and his quartet on a fine YouTube performance for anyone interested in what this piece sounds like. Onk Akimel is the name given in Nahuati by the Pimas tribe in Arizona. This name means "The Salt River." The soundscape is represented by an ostinato that moves throug

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

Patrick Roux Les Productions D’Oz: 12 pages French –born Roux has had many works published, a few of which I have seen. This latest work is in the form of a modern tango, complete with many harmonic crunches that definitely suit the style. The opening is marked Joyeux, chantant et rythmique, and is in D Minor (dropped D 6 th ) with an opening solo line that jumps all over the fingerboard, before becoming two voices in an almost fugal style. There is much use of multiple

Ken Murray Les Productions D’Oz: 8 pages Ken Murray’s compositions are many and varied and his guitar work as a performer and recording artist are superb and second to none. So a new piece from him is always something to look forward to. In spite of the cover photo of Shanghai, the piece itself is based on the Australian slang for as slingshot, and therefore the music does not have any oriental sounds to it! Set in A Major with a Dropped D 6 th its Con Spirito marking te

Leonardo Bravo Les Productions D’Oz: 3 pages This folk styled piece by Argentinean guitarist Leonardo Bravo is a short but fun piece that has the time signature of 3/4 6/8, so it becomes immediately obvious that the Latin styled music is full of a mixture of the two time signatures , often in the same bar. It is also an Allegro of 160 crotchets a minute so it does really go right from the outset. At only 48 bars (with a complete repeat) it moves smartly but doesn’t stay a

Dusan Bogdanovic Doberman – Yppan : 16 pages This Yugoslavian composer’s music is very different from any other composer’s music as anyone who has heard, or seen some of it will recognise. The first thing you notice about this four movement work is just how very complex the actual music pages look, when you first open the volume. For example on page one , which consists of 17 bars of music there are the following time signatures 2/4, 6/8, 7/8, 3 / 4, 11/16, 5/8, 7/16, 4/4,

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,

Stephen Goss Doberman – Yppan : 15 pages You always know that when you come across a Stephen Goss piece, it will be completely different from any other composer, and this latest piece is no different from that. The Preface tells the story of the piece in that the characters, being from the Commedia Dell ‘Arte , namely Pierrot, Harlequin and Coliumbina are interacting with each other. Columbina is considering choosing one of them as a partner.So in this piece which is a se

Francesco di Giandomenico Les Productions D’Oz: Score and separate parts, 16, 6, 7, 6, and 6 pages respectively This is the second publications I have seen recently from this composer, and is quite a different work than its predecessor. It is by the way part of the Chuck Hulihan Collection The first thing is that the pieces are much more moderate in their difficulty to the other book. All the three pieces here are in four parts but they are definitely playable by reasonable

Francesco Di Giandomenico Les Productions D’Oz: Score and separate parts (18, 5, 4, 5, and 5 pages respectively) If you want a taster of this piece, there is a very grief 58 seconds section on YouTube, and that will show you part of the first section only, but it does give you an idea of what sort of music it is. After a slow, expressive opening on guitar 4 an accelerando leads to the Con Fuoco, which is the main theme, and where guitar 4 now plays a low fast and furious m

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

Ramses Calderon Les Productions d’Oz: 12 pages Calderon heralds from El Salvador and here are 4 pieces from his large compositional repertoire that , generally speaking , are for advanced players only. The opening piece El Colibri is perhaps the most difficult. It begins with a four bar introduction that jumps around the notes in an Em chord, but with half of the notes requiring a trill. This then leads to almost the entire remainder of the piece (33 bars, and nearly 5 page

Edwin Guevara Gutierrez Bergmann Edition: 11 pages This composer has a very impressive musical life, too many things to go into now but suffice it to say that they are huge and varied. The Bambuco is a traditional Colombian music and dance genre from the Andean region, characterized by a waltz-like rhythm with roots in Spanish, indigenous, and African musical styles . It is known for its expressive melodies and intricate rhythms and that is definitely the case here with t

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

VALDERRABANO: Soneto 2 ; Soneto 1: MILAN: Fantasia 8: NARVAEZ: Differencias Sobre ‘Guardame Las Vacas’: DA MILANO : Ricercar 16; Fantasia 28, Fantasia 32; Fantasia 61:PICCININI : Aria di Saravanda in Varie Partite; Corrente 11: DOWLAND: Sir John Smith, His Almain; Lachrimae;Tarleton’s Risserectione :ROBERT JOHNSON: Alman: CUTTING: Greensleeves: ANON: The Cobbler: ABEL: Allegro D Moll WKO208; Allegro D Moll: BACH: Sonate No2 A Moll BWV1003 – a)3- Andante ; b) 4 – Allegro: WEI

Francis Bebey Les Productions D’Oz: 3 pages This short but melodic piece of writing is by a man who I first discovered through the playing and recordings of John Williams, quite a considerable time ago. The two pages about his life and his guitar work makes for fascinating reading. This little piece is in D Major with a dropped D 6 th and has a melody that returns a few times in the piece in slightly different guises as it progresses .It is generally in three voices, with