World Guitar: Guitar Solo: Instrumental Album

Throughout his career Christopher Parkening America's preeminent classical guitarist has had the opportunity to perform with many of the world's leading artists and orchestras. This folio Duets and Concertos contains many selections from those collaborations and features a wide range of musical pairings which show the guitar at its versatile best: voice and guitar guitar duets chamber music and concertos. All of the pieces included here have been edited and fingered for the guitar by Christopher Parkening and to quote Christopher himself ???No compromise has been made in requirement of technique. All of these pieces are suitable for performance by the virtuosoguitarist.??? This folio contains 35 transcriptions.

In the early 1700s, Bach's chorales enchanted listeners with their inventive harmonies, chromaticism, contrapuntal motion, and changes of tonal center. Since that time, music students the world over have studied the chorales as a paragon of 'common practice' harmony and voice leading. And by virtue of their sublime beauty, musicians continue to perform the chorales to this day. The four-part texture of the chorales can make their performance on guitar ? with its fingering limitations ? somewhat problematic. But by sometimes thinning the texture to three or two parts, and sometimes inverting the lower parts (allowing the alto or tenor to temporarily serve as the bass), we've created easy-to-play classical guitar solos that capture all the interest and beauty of Bach's original compositions.

This collection exclusively features music by the world's most renowned composers: Bach Handel Mozart Beethoven and Brahms. For educational purposes the pieces have been organised in order of difficulty within each composer's section. In addition complete performances of all pieces can be heard on the accompanying CD.

Performed by Christian Reichert guitarAccompaniment: Plovdiv Philharmonic OrchestraConductor: Nayden TodorovThis sumptuous guitar concerto written by the great Castelnuovo-Tedesco on the eve of World WarII quickly became a modern classic almost approaching the popularity of Rodrigo's 'Concierto de Aranjuez.' Its appreciation has grown with the ensuing years and it is now considered a 20th-century classic. Don't miss thislyrical masterpiece! This deluxe 2CD set includes a slow-tempo practice version to help you get up to speed with the concerto.Includes an authoritative newly engraved solo part printed on high-quality ivory paper;a digital stereo compact disc featuring a complete performance of the concerto with orchestra and soloist and a second performance minus you the soloist; and a second compact disc containing a full-speed version of the completeversion as well as a special -20% slow-tempo version of the accompaniment for practice purposes. The concerto is voluminously indexed for your practice and performance convenience.

Classical Masterpieces Arranged for Solo Guitar in Standard Notation-The Classical Guitar Compendium brings the world of classical music to guitarists of all levels. This collection features classical Guitar technical studies from Sor Tarrega Guiliani Carcassi and Aguado as well as presenting fresh Guitar arrangements of well-known classical masterpieces. Repertoire compositions are included from the likes of Bach Beethoven Brahms Chopin Debussy Fauré Massenet Mozart Pachelbel Ravel Schumann Tchaikovsky Wagner and more. Access to online audio is also included with Guitar solo performances by Bridget Mermikides. This is the notation only edition.The tablature edition can be found here.

Classical Masterpieces Arranged for Solo Guitar-The Classical Guitar Compendium brings the world of classical music to guitarists of all levels. This collection features classical Guitar technical studies from Sor Tarrega Guiliani Carcassi and Aguado as well as presenting fresh Guitar arrangements of well-known classical masterpieces. Repertoire compositions are included from the likes of Bach Beethoven Brahms Chopin Debussy Fauré Massenet Mozart Pachelbel Ravel Schumann Tchaikovsky Wagner and more. Access to online audio is also included with Guitar solo performances by Bridget Mermikides. This is the tablature edition. The notation onlyedition can be found here.

13 Stücke für Gitarre solo - 13 Pieces for Guitar Solo-A group of landscape sound-paintings of Ireland a tango homage to Debussy Elgar and Satie personal memories set to music - with these 13 intermediate guitar pieces Maria Linnemann lets us delve deeply into her multi-coloured touching world ofsound.