Composed by Paolo Ugoletti Andrea Vezzoli. Edited by Piero Bonaguri and Raffaello Ravasio. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 254. Published by Ut Orpheus

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-122

Per Maurizio (2009) for Guitar. Composed by Gilberto Cappelli. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 122. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-122).

ISBN 9790215318410. 9 x 12 inches.

'Per Piero' and 'Per Maurizio' are among the most recent pieces written for solo guitar by Gilberto Cappelli.
The first piece, written in 2006, represents a surprise present for my fiftieth birthday: it was written after a request of a pupil of mine, Alessandra Lucchi, who performed it as a premiere during my birthday party.
The second piece (2009) expresses the composer’s participation for the pain caused by the sudden death of Maurizio Biasini, scientist and guitarist who completed his musical studies at Cesena Conservatory where Gilberto Cappelli was in the Board of Examiners. The piece was premiered at a concert in memory of Maurizio held in the Bonci Theatre in Cesena.
The use of a particular tremolo effect is a typical characteristic of all the guitar works of this composer; a tremolo which is very different from the traditional one. The performer is asked to produce – as much as possible – a long and continuous sound, as if it were a voice or the long sound of string or wind instruments. The tremolo will have to be very dense and homogeneous. In the case of a tremolo on two or three strings it is necessary to start playing two or three sounds simultaneously only once and then continuing alternating them – but always tending to achieve a homogeneity of sound.
(Piero Bonaguri).

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-227

Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 227. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-227).

ISBN 9790215324145. 9 x 12 inches.

Emilio Calandin: Piccola sfumatura
Claudia Montero: Lagrimas de Buenos Aires
Marco Reghezza: Como Preludio
Marco Smaili: Preludio
Alessand ro Spazzoli: Preludio in Do maggiore
Roberto Tagliamacco: Prelude sur le nom de Tarrega
Paolo Ugoletti: Prelude sur le nom de Tarrega

Having been invited several times onto the jury of the prestigious Certamen Tarrega in Benicasim, I thought I would involve a few composers in a gift to the father of the modern guitar. So I asked the composers to write a Prelude of the kind that Tarrega wrote and which count among his most significant compositions.
These Preludes for Tarrega, all written between August and November 2015, are very different from each other. The common feature, however, between these and the Preludes by Tarrega is their brevity, an average level of performance difficulty and guaranteed easy listening, even when written in a non-tonal language (like the meditative and melancholy piece by Emilio Calandin and the one by Marco Smaili, with its Impressionistic feel reminding one of Tarrega's most famous pupil, Miguel Llobet).
In some Preludes (the ones by Paolo Ugoletti, Roberto Tagliamacco, Claudia Montero) the reference to Lagrima, one of Tarrega's most famous Preludes, is evident in form, title and some citations. Ugoletti and Tagliamacco work well and expressively on harmony and counterpoint, while the Argentinian Claudia Montero links Tarrega to a heartbreaking Buenos Aires...
In Alessandro Spazzoli there is rather more a connection with Tarrega's sense of melody and deep simplicity, while Marco Reghezza remembers ironically what was brewing in European music when Tarrega was alive: in fact, his Como Preludio goes across the 24 keys - and even a reference to Wagner's Tristan raises its head...
I am delighted for this volume to come out at the time of the fiftieth edition of the Certamen Tarrega.
(Piero Bonaguri).

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-321

Composed by Chiara Benati. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 321. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-321).

ISBN 9790215326293. 9 x 12 inches.

Dediche< /i> is a series of short miniature pieces for solo guitar written in 1991 by Chiara Benati, an authoritative exponent of what can be called the School of Bologna, and who has devoted many pages of her catalogue to the guitar (Chiara won a first prize in 1986 at the Competition for Guitar Composition organized by the historic magazine Il Fronimo).
From the point of view of the guitar idiom, it is striking how the compositional research of Chiara Benati (who does not play the guitar) has penetrated deeply into the nature of the instrument. In my job of adding the fingering to the pieces, I started from the precise indications concerning the strings already provided by the Composer, who meticulously imagined the instrumental result created by the play of resonances and the consequent precise distribution of the parts on different strings (let us think of the tremolos superimposed on different strings in the second Dedica and the counterpoint in three parts each written on its own musical stave), with a skilful use of glissandos and other instrumental effects.
From the musical point of view, a similar meticulousness in writing is evident, shown, for example, by indicating the temporal separation between the figures by means of their spatial distance indicated in the score.
The result is an instrumentally and musically rigorous writing which also helps the performer by appealing to his ability to empathize, following the indications written in the score and in the key, with the expressive atmosphere of the work, and through that specific aspect of controlled performance flexibility and sound sensitivity necessary to render it properly.
These delicate miniatures, suffused with mystery and melancholy, and so masterfully written for the guitar, are in my opinion an important addition to the contemporary repertoire of the instrument.
(Piero Bonaguri).

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-162

Composed by Gian Paolo Luppi. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. 16 pages. Ut Orpheus #CH 162. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-162).

ISBN 9790215320680. 9 x 12 inches.

Introitu s (Cantate Domino); Kyrie; Offertoria (Laetentur caeli); Agnus Dei; Communiones (Fili, quid fecisti); Antiphonae (Joannes est nomen éjus)

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-394

Composed by Luciano Chillemi Piero Bonaguri. Classical. Score. Ut Orpheus #CH 394. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-394).

ISBN 9790215328518. 9 x 12 inches.

Questo breve testo introduttivo alla pratica del basso continuo per chitarristi non ha certo pretese di esaustività; esso nasce sia dal desiderio di condividere un’esperienza pratica maturata sul campo sia da una preoccupazione pedagogica nei confronti dei giovani studenti di chitarra.
Come scritto nell’Introduzione, una seppur iniziale conoscenza pratica del basso continuo realizzato alla chitarra può aiutare lo studente a sviluppare una maggiore consapevolezza delle possibilità armoniche dello strumento e a colmare quel gap che troppo spesso si ravvisa tra le conoscenze teorico-armoniche acquisite nei corsi teorici e la pratica strumentale.
Gli esempi pratici di realizzazioni fornite in questo testo nascono anche dall’esperienza didattica degli autori maturata dall’insegnamento di questa materia nei conservatori di Bologna e Rovigo.

Composed by Franco Cavallone. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 287. Published by Ut Orpheus

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-133

Composed by Paolo Ugoletti. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 133. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-133).

ISBN 9790215319080. 9 x 12 inches.

Preludio ; Quasi Modo; Fuga; Elegia

Composed by Andrea Vezzoli. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 279. Published by Ut Orpheus

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-403

Composed by Luciano Chillemi Piero Bonaguri. Classical. Score. Ut Orpheus #CH 403. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-403).

ISBN 9790215328631. 9 x 12 inches.

This short introductory text to the practice of figured bass for guitarists certainly has no claim to discuss the topic thoroughly. It arose both from the desire to share practical experience gained in the field and from a pedagogical concern towards young guitar students.
As can be seen from the Introduction, an initial practical knowledge of the figured bass performed on the guitar can help the student to develop a greater awareness of the harmonic possibilities of the instrument and to fill that gap which is too often visible between the theoretical-harmonic knowledge acquired in the theory courses and instrumental practice.
The practical examples provided in this text also arise from the authors’ didactic experience gained from teaching this subject in the conservatories of Bologna and Rovigo.

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-136

Composed by Alessandro Spazzoli. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Collection. Ut Orpheus #CH 136. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-136).

ISBN 9790215319332. 9 x 12 inches.

Preludio ; Corale; Interludio; Ave, speranza nostra; Postludio; Nunc dimittis

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-220

Composed by Alessandro Spazzoli. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. 12 pages. Ut Orpheus #CH 220. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-220).

ISBN 9790215323292. 9 x 12 inches.

Homenaje a Rodrigo: Evocación - Homenaje - Gloria (2015); Arietta (2014)

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-148

Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 148. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-148).

ISBN 9790215319998. 9 x 12 inches.

Davide Anzaghi: Kitarama II - Kitarama IV
Umberto Bombardelli: Das klingende Lied III
Pieralbert o Cattaneo: Forme in movimento II
Carlo Forlivesi: Lachrimae
Gian Paolo Luppi: Victimae
Marco Reghezza: Roundance

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-289

Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 289. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-289).

ISBN 9790215325852. 9 x 12 inches.

Giovanni Podera: Fantasia (In memoriam Joaquín Rodrigo)
Marco Reghezza: Nana Estrellada
Marco Simoni: Junto a Rodrigo
Marco Smaili: Fronda de la tarde (Homenaje a Joaquín Rodrigo)
Paolo Ugoletti: Fuga a 4 voci

Following the successful publication of Homenaje a Rodrigo (2015), containing four pieces by Alessandro Spazzoli – one of which was performed in the presence of the composer’s daughter, Cecilia Rodrigo, during her visit to the International Convention in Alessandria –, here is the second volume. It contains more tributes to Rodrigo written on my input by five well-known Italian and Spanish composers, two of whom are also guitarists and have therefore written the fingering for their own pieces.
Giovanni Podera plunges us into a typically Rodrigo-like atmosphere with his evocative Fantasia, while the following three compositions are full of direct quotations from pieces also for guitar by the great composer from Valencia. Thus, Marco Simoni, in his expressive Junto a Rodrigo – which also provides the title to the volume – plays with themes taken from Junto al Generalife and from Dos piezas caballerescas for a cello ensemble as well as hinting at reminiscences of Tiento antiguo. As for Marco Smaili, in his impressionistic Fronda de la tarde, he evokes quite evidently Zarabanda lejana and Invocación y Danza, but there are more hidden references to Caminos de Santiago and even to the very famous Concierto de Aranjuez. Marco Reghezza builds his heart-breaking Nana estrellada on a sequence of chords used by Rodrigo in the fantasia ¡Que buen caminito!.
On the other hand, there are no direct quotations and echoes of Rodrigo’s way of writing in the Fuga a quattro voci by Paolo Ugoletti. However it was Rodrigo himself who constructed four-part imitative passages for guitar in Pasacalle and in the Ricercare of the Fantasia para un Gentilhombre. The close polyphony of the piece by Ugoletti may be considered as a tribute to this kind of craft shown by Rodrigo who, like Ugoletti, was able to write such dense and idiomatic counterpoint without being a guitar-player.
I am pleased that this volume comes out in the imminence of the 20th anniversary of the disappearance of the illustrious Spanish composer who gave so much to the musicians – and not only to them.
(Piero Bonaguri)

Mucha s gracias por este emotivo y excelente musical homenaje a mi padre. La edición es excelente y la difundiremos con todos nuestros medios por las redes sociales a nuestro alcance. Ha sido un gran trabajo por su parte, fruto de sus grandes conocimientos guitarrísticos y su devoción por Joaquín Rodrigo.  Le reitero mi gratitud y mi felicitación con el ruego transmita a los cinco compositores mi felicitación y deseos de éxito.
(Cecilia Rodrigo).

Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 373. Published by Ut Orpheus

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-209

Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Collection. Ut Orpheus #CH 209. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-209).

ISBN 9790215322837. 9 x 12 inches.

Gian Paolo Luppi: Alcor
Marco Reghezza: Fuga Dodecatonale
Alessand ro Spazzoli: Sarabanda all'alba
Roberto Tagliamacco: Concerto per la notte di Corelli

In 2013, to celebrate the second centenary of the death of Arcangelo Corelli, I played in an official concert held in his memory in Fusignano, his hometown. Corelli did not write for the guitar, but a few of his compositions were transcribed by some contemporary guitarist and certainly his name has always been associated in the history of music with the theme of the very famous <> (although the origins of this theme go back a long way before Corelli). In the guitar repertoire, well-known cycles of variations on this theme exist. My long history of friendship and working together with important Italian composers has made it possible for me to build a concert program with some new guitar compositions dedicated to Corelli, to which others have been added. They are all together in this anthology, with the exceptions of Corelliana by Davide Anzaghi, Per Arcangelo by Gilberto Cappelli and Corelliana Seconda by Paolo Ugoletti, published separately.
The cover picture, specially created by Norma Lutzemberger for this publication, celebrates this meeting between the modern guitar and Arcangelo Corelli.
(Piero Bonaguri)

Composed by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856). Edited by Piero Viti. Lucio Matarazzo Collection. 36 pages. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-228).

Composed by Cesare Augusto Grandi. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 247. Published by Ut Orpheus

Composed by Marco Simoni. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 358. Published by Ut Orpheus

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-198

Composed by Davide Anzaghi. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 198. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-198).

ISBN 9790215322677. 9 x 12 inches.

Work commissioned by the 19th International Guitar Convention in Alessandria (2014).

Composed by Paolo Bonaguri. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 318. Published by Ut Orpheus

Composed by Andrea Vezzoli. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 351. Published by Ut Orpheus

Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 286. Published by Ut Orpheus

Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 285. Published by Ut Orpheus

Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 357. Published by Ut Orpheus

Composed by Alessandro Spazzoli. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 328. Published by Ut Orpheus

Guitar

SKU: UT.CH-237

Composed by Biancamaria Furgeri. Edited by Piero Bonaguri. Saddle stitching. Piero Bonaguri Collection. Classical. Ut Orpheus #CH 237. Published by Ut Orpheus (UT.CH-237).

ISBN 9790215324107. 9 x 12 inches.