This concerto a new addition to the literature for guitar and orchestra casts the guitar almost as a member of the percussion family from the very beginning explosive in its energy easing into song for its secondtheme.An extensive cadenza takes the soloist to the highest note before plunging into an appropriately hectic ending. A simple (but all the more telling) guitar solo opens and closes the middle movement a nocturne withanother extended cadenza. The movement starts in meditation grows into a broad chorale-like melody and moves into rage before the orchestra intervenes to return to the calm of the beginning. The boisterous and carefree flavourof the last movement sketched while on holiday in Antigua during Carnival gives the concerto its nickname.This riotous and exuberant finale generates an irresistible rumba bringing together themes first heard at thevery beginning of the work particularly the rasqueado strumming and the tamburo percussive effects. The moods and flavour of the Caribbean are very acutely captured not in a tourist photograph but in an obviously loving spiritual portrait.????????????Eduardo?Fern?ndezThe Guitar Concerto ?Caribbean? has been recorded by Eduardo Fern?ndez withthe English Chamber Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth.

Une célébration joyeuse des plus illustres et des thèmes duistinguished et des pièces de George Gershwin ! La joie de Gershwin contient 27 mélodies fantastiques et tunes, tous sélectionnés et arrangés pour Piano Solo, par Gerald Martin. / Piano / 64 pages / Partition

Antonio Vivaldi (1673-1741) was an Italian composer violinist and teacher in the Baroque era. His name has become synonymous with the series of Violin concertos known as the Four Seasons but he also wrote over 500 other concertos for various instruments as well as dozens of operas and several sacred works. The Concerto No. 23 (RV 425) was written in 1725. Set in the key of C major it was originally scored for solo Mandolin with String Orchestra and Continuo Bass (Cembalo). It has been arranged for Guitar or Mandolin with Piano accompaniment by the French composer Fernand Oubradous .