Six Works for Guitar

A selection of 26 pieces by the Spanish guitarist Fernando Sor, considered the most important composer of guitar music in the early nineteenth-century. In this publication, Max Eschig continues the discovery of the considerable Romantic repertoire for the guitar, edited by Frédéric Zigante. This repertoire continues to be an essential part of a guitarist's studies and is still widely performed in the guitar recitals. Includes Grand Solo, opus 14, one of his most popular works. / Guitare

This anthology contains a selection of Handel's best-known works and melodies, originally written for a range of instruments, transcribed here for guitar by Martin Hegel. / Guitare

Jorge Cardoso is a recognized performer who has travelled the world over giving hundreds or concerts as a soloist, in duos, and with orchestras. There are innumerable recordings of his performances, and he is a prolific composer whose works have been recorded by other guitarists in more than thirty albums. Cardoso is also a master teacher with followers around the world. This DVD traces the historical path of the guitar, showing the instrument's ancestors and tracing its development to its current form. It includes a visit to the workshops of Manuel Contreras II and Ars Antiqva, Jose Angel Espejo's workshop, followed by a detailed analysis of the factors that contribute to the proper development of classical guitar technique. The DVD covers everything from the seat, the position of the body, and the devices used to improve it 'Aguado's machine?, Sor's support system, the foot-rest, attachments, and an ingenious, simple and practical system created by the author, to the mechanical workings of the hand, its main ways of gripping, and the problems posed by the ring finger. All of these topics are approached through the scientific reasoning of the author, backed up by his knowledge as a doctor. As Jorge Cardoso says in the introduction, this course 'can be useful both to beginners and to more advanced players. . . it can be useful to anyone who plays a plucked stringed instrument.? It includes basic demonstrations and explanations about how the hands work from the moment they are placed on the guitar, as well as exercises and concert pieces of the highest level. There is a discussion of strumming technique, of 'toque mixto? and four complete pieces interpreted by the author. The course will also be useful for electric guitarists and others who have focused on the use of the pick and have neglected other essential guitar techniques. UK product number 8353412233. / Guitare Classique / 125 pages / niveau : Multiple Levels / Dvd - Format: 7,5 X 5,25

E Minor Op. 14 and A Major Op. 8a-Performed by Christian Reichert guitarAccompaniment: Rousse Philharmonic OrchestraConductor: Nayden TodorovFerdinando Carulli born in Naples but largely based in Paris was one of the most influentialfigures in the history of guitar and author of a famous 200-year-old method still in use today. He wrote hundreds of guitar works and these two concerti in E minor and A major rank at the top of his oeuvre! Beautiful melodiesand immense fun for the guitarist. So sit down with the orchestra and play to your heart's content!Contains a newly engraved authoritative printed solo part edited by soloist Christian Reichert; and two compactdiscs containing complete versions of each concerto with soloist; and accompaniments minus you! Also includes a special -20% slow-tempo practice version of the orchestral accompaniments for practice purposes.

Music Of 4 Centuries Arranged For 3 Guitars-Mary Criswick (1945-2004) was a British guitarist and composer. In Guitar Trios (1975) she arranged music from 4 different centuries for 3 Guitars creating a suite of works that are great asindividual concert items or performed as a whole set. A wide range of styles are covered from Tudor music right up to the turn of the 20th century.

Until the beginning of the 1980s, the figure of François de Fossa was mainly known by his relationship with Dionisio Aguado, a relationship that included de Fossa?s collaboration in producing the two Parisian editions of the Aguado Escuela, and the complete translation of one of them into French. The situation changed radically in 1981 with the publication by Editions Orphée of a monograph which not only revealed very interesting and decisive factors in regard to the guitar quintets of Luigi Boccherini, but also included an important biographical study and a checklist of the known compositions of François de Fossa. Several works by de Fossa were published in later years, among which were works for two guitars, trios, quartets, an anthology of selected works for guitar solo published in 1990. De Fossa?s Quatre Divertissemens pour la Guitare seule extraits des Oeuvres de J. Haydn, his Op. 13, was part of that anthology. The current edition of it was engraved anew, and completely edited and fingered. The works of Haydn from which this music is drawn are as follows: Divertimento I ? Symphony N° 63 ?La Roxolane?, and Symphony N° 85 ?La Reine? Divertimento II ? Largo Cantabile, Rondo Allegretto. In spite of rigorous search, we have not been successful in identifying the movements of this Divertimento among the known works of Haydn. Divertimento III ? Symphony N° 85 ?La Reine?and Symphony N° 86 Divertimento IV ? Symphony N° 53 ?L?Imperiale? and Symphony N° 85 ?La Reine?. The Andante of this symphony was also used, at about the same time, by Fernando Sor, as the theme of his Thema Varié pour la Guitare ou Lyre, (WoO-1) as well as in his Op. 20. Of considerable interest here is de Fossa?s seemingly paradoxical approach to transcribing music by Haydn. In the case of Haydn string quartets, he chose the two guitars medium, providing for a more facile representation of the harmony and counterpoint. In transcribing these four divertimenti, extracted from several Haydn symphonies, he chose the solo guitar as the target instrumentation, clearly a medium that is far less appropriate for handling a complex musical texture than the guitar duo. It is perfectly understandable that he was not entirely successful in retaining the selection?s original integrity, having eliminated some parts as noted above. Nevertheless, the resulting works, those that are directly attributable to Haydn and the one that cannot, are splendid concert pieces for the solo guitar.

The guitar studies of Fernando Sor (1778-1839) have long been valued highly among the indispensable elements of a guitarist's training. A number of prominent virtuosi attribute a large portion of their development to the diligentstudy of these works. Sor's studies address an impressive array of technical and musical topics including proper left-hand fingering training of the right hand interval and chord formations scales arpeggios repeated notes ligados barring natural harmonics control of note duration balance of melody versus accompaniment and the handling of contrapuntal voices. A careful study of these pieces will lay the groundwork for a solid technique andallow the guitarist to build the control necessary for the expression of his or her musical concepts. In preparing this edition David Grimes worked with Sor's original publications but incorporated some alterations that appear inthose studies that Napoleon Coste chose to include in his Methode complete pour la Guitarre par Ferdinand Sor. Furthermore Mr. Grimes has corrected misprints modernized the notation and rectified some inconsistencies. Finally some developments in technique since Sor's day have been incorporated in this edition.

Guillermo Diego's Album Pieces for Solo Guitar Volume I embody a collection of original works conceived by this recognized Mexican composer for classical guitar. These pieces have being written with different musical languagesthat goes from the inspiration in Mexican styles to free pieces that use contemporary and different resources that belongs to the guitar concerto style. This works are plenty of musical colors and offers different challenges tothe guitarist. The writing is completely idiomatic very natural for the guitar; it is music in which one the professional finds an artistic meaning but also the students will find the elements to improve his technical and willnear them to original works that have being composed recently and inspired in Mexican and Latin American music. The publication of this book is a premiere and will give to the guitarist part of the knowledge of what it is happencurrently in Mexican classical guitar. Guillermo Diego is a well-known composer into the sphere of classical guitar who has being recognized for his contributions to the art of the guitar.