Concierto Andaluz, I. Tiempo de Bolero
Concierto Andaluz, I. Tiempo de Bolero. NZ Guitar Quartet perform the New Zealand premier of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto Andaluz with the Nelson Symphony Orchestra at the Nelson School of Music (November 2012). A big thank you to Mick Dowrick (Conductor), Bob Bickerton (sound Engineer) and all the NSO musicians and staff for making this...
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Concierto Andaluz, II. Adagio. NZ Guitar Quartet perform the New Zealand premier of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto Andaluz with the Nelson Symphony Orchestra at the Nelson School of Music (November 2012). A big thank you to Mick Dowrick (Conductor), Bob Bickerton (sound Engineer) and all the NSO musicians and staff for making this...
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Concierto Andaluz, III. Allegretto. NZ Guitar Quartet perform the New Zealand premier of Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto Andaluz with the Nelson Symphony Orchestra at the Nelson School of Music (November 2012). A big thank you to Mick Dowrick (Conductor), Bob Bickerton (sound Engineer) and all the NSO musicians and staff for making this...
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NZGQ Perform “Sarajevo Nights” by the brilliant Almer Imamovic, originally written as a duo for guitar and flute. Please visit Almer (and Jessica’s!) website for recording and scores. Performance in the Hohepa Community Centre (Christchurch), August...
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NZGQ Perform the 2nd movement of Craig Utting’s Onslow College Suite. Performance is in the Hohepa Community Centre...
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The Storm, Kaisa Beech (Young NZ composer) A local Wellington composer, Kaisa wrote this piece towards the end of 2010 as one of her final composition assessments at St Mary’s College. Originally for guitar quartet and bass, it depicts the quick and moody passing by of a...
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Celtic Fare, Scott Tennant Daya’s Spin Music for a Found Harmonium (by Simon Jeffes – arr: S. Tennant) The Cat-Cow Reel I arranged Music for a Found Harmonium for the Quartet but felt it needed something else to go with it. I went back to my sketchbooks and wound up writing Daya’s Spin, dedicated to a lovely yoga teacher I knew. To round things off, I wrote the Cat-Cow, a yoga position Daya would always lead her class through. And this way, Yoga-Celt was born! - Scott...
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Capriccio Espagnol (arr: W.Kanengiser), N. Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908) Alborada Variazioni Alborada Scena e Canto Gitano Fandango Asturiano With a clear Spanish flavour the Capriccio Espagnol (based on Spanish folk melodies and dances/rhythms) is an ideal candidate for guitar arrangement. Korsakov wrote the original full orchestra version in 1887 and asks instruments with solos and cadenzas to imitate the guitar “quasi guitar”, a characteristic that has been expertly realised by the arranger throughout this lively piece....
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Capriol Suite (arr: Owen Moriarty), Peter Warlock (1894-1930) Basse-Danse Pavane Tordion Bransles Pieds-en-l’air Mattachins (Sword Dance) Most often played by string orchestras, Warlock took these 6 dances (selected from Thoinot Arbeau’sOrchésographie, a manual of renaissance dances) and arranged them into his own masterpiece in 1926. Keeping the Renaissance character, the original melodies in each movement are retained while Warlock’s influence on the harmony and structure remains...
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Lotus Eaters, Andrew York (b.1958) Andrew York was a member of the LA Guitar Quartet for many years and is now a prolific composer and performer. “Lotus Eaters” (which has nothing to do with eating) was inspired by the ninth book of Homer’s Odyssey, which tells the story of sailors who would stop in the Land of the Lotus Eaters, eat honey-sweet lotus fruit, and become overpowered by an ecstasy that made them want to stay for the rest of their...
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Carmen Suite (arr: Bill Kanengiser), Georges Bizet (1838-75) Aragonaise Habanera Seguidilla Toreadors Entr’acte Gypsy Dance The French opera comique Carmen, had a rough beginning – premiered in Paris in 1875, it was ill-received by audiences and critics and the theatre was forced to give away tickets to boost audience numbers. Several months later Bizet died of a heart attack (aged 36) and was never to know how enormously popular his work would later become. The Spanish setting of the opera allows the guitar ample opportunity to embrace the...
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Farewell to Stromness, Peter Maxwell-Davies (arr. Scott Tennant) The NZ Guitar Quartet plays Farewell to Stromness by Peter Maxwell-Davies (arranged by Scott Tennant). Wellington, New Zealand,...
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Brandenburg Concerto No.6, BWV 1051, J.S. Bach (1685-1750) Allegro Adagio ma non tanto Allegro In 1721 Bach presented all six concertos in a manuscript to the Margrave of Brandenburg, from whom they take their usual name. There is no reliable evidence that the pieces were ever performed in Brandenburg, and it is thought that Bach wrote the concertos at different times over the previous decade, but presented them as a collection to the margrave in the hope of financial reward. Originally written for viola da braccio (2), viola da gamba(2),...
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