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.

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.

The Hungarian Dance Csárdás is the best known work by Vittorio Monti (1868-1922) an Ita - lian composer born in Naples, who worked extensively as a conductor and composer in Paris. Originally written for Violin, or Mandolin, with piano or orchestra accompaniment Csárdás was immediately selected by numerous virtuosos who adopted it as a showpiece. Nowadays, it is still widely heard for just about every instrumental combination from various solo instruments, particularly solo violin, to versions for many instrumental combinations from gypsy orchestras through to marching bands. We are proud to publish this fine solo guitar arrangement by the virtuoso Russian guitarist Dimitri Lavrentiev, who resides and teaches in Augsburg, Germany. / Guitare

Guitar Play-Along-Performed by Christian Reichert guitar Accompaniment: Plovdiv Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Nayden Todorov Manuel Ponce's legendary Concierto del Sur remains one of the undisputed masterworks for guitar and orchestra and is arguably the greatest guitar concerto to emerge from Latin America. It is a vital part of the modern guitarist's repertoire. The concerto's unconventional melodic style and distinctly Latin American feel predominate integrating a near-perfect balance between guitar and orchestra. The writing for the guitar is brilliant forthright and leaves a strong impression on both player and audience. This Music Minus One edition presents a bravura performance of this20th-century classic from virtuoso guitarist Christian Reichert. Study his technique then you stand center-stage with the Plovdiv Symphony Orchestra under Maestro Nayden Todorov for your own Latin spectacular! Includes an authoritative newly engraved solo part printed on high-quality acid-free ivory paper containing the solo guitar part; 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 complete version 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.

The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee?s (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: ?In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.? Over the last couple of years I moved back to Jelly Roll Morton?s city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman?s reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means ?conversation with the gods? in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao?s (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950?s following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo?s ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece?s characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles? Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don?t Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach?s Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht?s The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli?s Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein?s West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish?s A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony?s co-production of George Gershwin?s Opera Porgy and Bess.

Par BAY MEL. Communément appelée la 'bible du guitariste rythmique', cet ouvrage novateur est un système de formation de corde de guitare qui maximise l'accordage de puissance tout en minimisant le mouvement de la gauche ! Initialement écrit par Mel Bay en 1947, cette publication phare a été rééditée dans sa composition originale en 1973 pour devenir le texte définitif sur les accords de jazz dans les studios de l'enseignement privé et départements de guitare jazz universitaires du monde entier. Analytique approche la baie de m. pratique à la touche produit ce système complet pour l'apprentissage des accords de guitare jazz orchestrale de pleine consonance. DVD inclus. Minutes de 90:14 de DVD. / Niveau : Intermédiaire à Avancé / Jazz - Chord Book / Etude / Guitare

Par LHOYER ANTOINE DE. Antoine de Lhoyer 1768-1852 Collection pour la guitare proposée par le duo Spinosi La vie d'Antoine de Lhoyer est un véritable roman dont la guitare reste le personnage central. Ce compositeur, guitariste, Chevalier de Saint-Louis et de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem, Garde de la Manche du Roi, nous a légué des chefs-d'?uvre longtemps restés dans l'obscurité des bibliothèques. La présente édition s'attache à vous en livrer les plus belles pages. La première édition connue de ce concerto fut publiée par Böhme, à Hambourg, en 1802. Il peut sembler curieux qu'une ?uvre aussi enthousiasmante soit restée si longtemps ignorée des guitaristes et du public alors que son existence était parfaitement connue. Ce concerto fut recréé en 2001 à Brest avec l'Ensemble Matheus (dirigé par Jean-Christophe Spinosi). Après l'avoir joué de très nombreuses fois en France et en Espagne, puis enregistré, j'invite tous les guitaristes à partager mon enthousiasme, ma joie et ma passion pour cette ?uvre superbe. Voici LE concerto que tout guitariste devrait désormais avoir à son répertoire ! - Philippe Spinosi Conducteur et parties séparée de guitare, 4 violon I, 4 violon II, 2 alto, 3 basse. Révisions, cadences et reconstitution du IIe mouvement par Philippe Spinosi. Le Concerto opus 16 et des duos pour guitares d'Antoine de Lhoyer ont été enregistrés en février 2004 par Philippe Spinosi et l'Ensemble Matheus sous la direction de Jean-Christophe Spinosi. Disque paru chez Naïve : www.naiveclassique.com Le Concerto pour guitare existe également pour guitare et piano : Concerto pour guitare opus 16 et pour orchestre en conducteur de poche. / Date parution : 2003-05-01/ Répertoire / Guitare

Bryce Dessner's St. Carolyn By The Sea. Full score for two Electric Guitars and Orchestra. This piece was co-commissioned by the American Composers Orchestra with the support of the HollandFestival and the Muziekgebouw FritsPhilips Eindhoven.

Description Towner is one of the most diversely talented musicians of the past half-century, having made notable recordings of classical, jazz, folk and world music. Following a classical-conservatory education, studying classical composition and guitar, Towner then joined world music pioneer Paul Winter's Consort ensemble in the late 1960s. Along with band members Paul McCandless, Glen Moore, and Collin Walcott, Towner left the Winter Consort in 1970 to form the group Oregon , which over the course of the 1970s issued a number of highly influential records mixing folk music, Indian classical forms, and avant-garde jazz-influenced free improvisation. As well as collaborating in concert and/or recording with many artists, Towner has recorded over two-hundred of his instrumental compositions, with works being commissioned and performed by some of the world’s leading orchestras. Available here is the second volume of solo works for guitar, including Always By Your Side , The Hollows , Toledo and more. Songlist Always By Your Side Anniversary Song If Mingusiana The Hollows The Lizards of Eraclea The Pendant Toledo Turning Of The Leaves