P C O P ~
Paco Peria is one of the foremost flamenco guitarists in the world. e has
dedicated
dedicated himsel f to conserve pure flamenco music, following in the footsteps of
great guitarists like Ramon Montoya and Sabicas.

His reputation as one of the outstanding exponen

exponents
ts of flamenco guitar has spread and he has performed all
over the United Kingdom and in most of the European countries. e has also played in Canada, Japan,
made three highly successful tours of Australia and given a recital at the Hong Kong Festival.

Paco Peria appears regularly on British Television and has made several best-selling records for DECCA
and PHILlPS. e has played a season of Flamenco at Ronnie Scott s jaz
jazz
z club, and taken par t in a concert
performance of Falla's a Vida reve with Victoria de los Angeles at the Royal Albert Hall. His shared
recitals with John Williams have been a great success both in England and abroad.

Paco Peria uses D'Addario Pro Arte guitar strings exclus

exclusively.
ively.

For full
details of this year's
International Flamenco
Guitar Seminar
Write: Centro Flamenco
Flamenc o
Paco Pena
Calle Reloj. No 7
Cordoba, Spain
 

CL SSIC L GUIT R
SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 1982 Vol. 1 No. 1

5 Classical Guita
Guitarr News - Colin Cooper
7 Concert Diary - Colin Cooper
W
9 Julian Bream, The Contrib
Contribution
ution - John Duarte
11 Los Romeros - Graham Wade
14 Scal
Scales
es - A Necessary
Necessary Evi
Evil?
l? - Neil Smith
16 Paganini and the Guitar - Harvey Hope
18 Harmony for Guitarists - John W Duarte Julian Bream - page 9
20 Music Supplement - Edited by Neil Smith
31 Analysis of Prelude by J. S. Bach - Oliver Hunt
35 Music Reviews
39 Record Revi
Reviews
ews
42 Concert
Con cert Revie
Reviews
ws
49 Classicall Guitar Teachers
Classica

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ep them
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worthwh
hwhile,
ile, li
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- or, if you put it another
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way, wit
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h one
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CLASSICAL GUITAR NEWS
Tsuyoshi Horiuchi with Andres Segovia
Tragic echo
The Segovia at International
Competition Leeds CastleGuitar
last
October generated a fitting euphoria
that has been sadly muted by a subse
quent event, surrounded by less
certainty than even the more
responsible media reports have
suggested.
It concerns the winner, Tsuyoshi
Horiuchi. At the end of the television
programme based on the Competition
it was stated, with fitting solemnity,
that, five months after the event,
Horiuchi had suffered permanent
damage to his left hand and would
never play again.
That statement is precisely true.
However,
horse s mouth rumours
reportsand
had fro
fromm ded
the
preceded
prece
the official statement by quite some
time and, together with reports in the
national press, created a confused
impression. Having investigated the
matter as fully as possible, we have
established
establ ished that after the Competition
Horiuchi was delighted by his success
and was looking forward to the
prospect of making the recording and
fulftlling the numerous concerts that
were a part of it. He took a brief
holiday in Japan at Christmas and
returned to England early in the new
year, after which his attitude seemed
to change. Sometime during February
he suffered the loss of the first one or
two phalanxes of his left-hand little
thatt he ret
fmger; shortly after tha retuurned
Japan , his career obviously
finally to Japan,
brought to an early and tragic end. end .
by COLIN COOPER
These are only the clear facts of
the matter; anything else remains an
area of speculation and is likely to
continue to be so, no matter how
tempting it may be for reporters with
a taste for sensationalism to enter it .
In the end it does not matter 
whatever the circumstances, what
would almost certainly have been a
brilliant career was brutally ter
minated before it could take flight.
There the matter should be allowed to
rest decently.
Re Cycles
At the Harrogate Festival in August
Carlos Bonell gave the first perfor
mance,, with soprano Margaret Field,
mance
of a song cycle by Douglas Young. A
setting of verses by James Joyce, the
work comprises about twenty songs
in all with a total duration of some 35
minute
minu tess - a subst
substant
antial
ial wo
work
rk by
by any
any
standards. The BBC are recording it
later this year.
Success for one song cycle; only
the promise of it for another, as yet
unwritten. Composer Oliver Hunt,
attending the first performance of his
guitar trio Circles Around a Still
Centre was so impressed by the tenor
voice of Sergio Martinez in a group of
Italian songs that he there and then
announced his intention of writing a
song cycle for the Martinez-Dunlea
duo, probably to verses by Pablo
Neruda. Thus Martinez, who has
sung here in English, Italian and
German, may at last be given the
opportunity to sing a substantial work
in his native Spanish.
Britten s Songs from the Chinese
may have opened one or two doors
that had remained closed for too long.
It would seem that composers are
becoming more aware o f the
possibilities in the voice-and-guitar
form. Indeed it is somewhat surpris
ing, in view of the generally
acknowledged suitability of the guitar
as an accompanying instrument, that
there have not been more song cycles
for voice and guitar in recent years.
Cheryl Gri e Masterr Class
Maste
Players and observers from various
parts of the country converged on
Shrewsbury for Cheryl Grice s
Master Class in June, writes ohn
Dodd. Works by Bach, Sor, Villa-
Lobos, Carcassi and Torroba were
studied,, and guidance was given in
studied
technique,, even to the extent of some
technique
pretty basic right hand positioning.
The proceedings were conducted in a
relaxed and informal atmosphere, as
might be expected. Cheryl is to give
another class there next year, and
early booking is recommended.
Long run
The series of broadcasts on BBC
Radio 3 The Classical Guitar began
with a programme in June 1973 given
by Alirio Diaz; its long continuity
was broken after the programme of
last May, by Monika and Jiirgen Rost
(East Germany) and it was succeeded
by ar new
guita
guitar chprogramme
which
whi with Music
began with
began a Summer for
season of six programmes that were
edited repeats of earlier ones from the
original series. The Classical Guitar
resumed its pilgrimage on 17 July
with the first of nine programmes; the
last of these, by Julian Bream, seems
certain to mark the end of the
marathon. This does not however end
the guitar s years of benefit in terms
of air-time for, in mid-September, a
new series begins, retaining the title
Music for guitar and scheduled
scheduled to
run well in
into
to 198
19833 - bebeyo
yond
nd whi hicch
there is as yet no decision; as it is not
impossible that the wishes of listeners
may beof taken
letters into account,
appreciation your
to the BBC
might pay dividends. The original
series had its weaknesses and · its
critics (who on the whole offered
nothing of constructive substance for
the improvement of the programme)
but its span of more than nine years
and its accomplishments within that
period were considerable. In the next
issue of Classical Guitar we will give
an overview of the series as an
appreciative postscript. The new
series of Music for guitar will follow
the pattern of the series it replaces in
that it will include programmes by
both domestic and visiting guitarists,
recorded in a variety of venues, but its
programme-length will be a uniform
30 min utes and theere will be no con
and th
versation between the artist and an
anch
anchor
or-p
-per
erso
son
n - on only
ly mu
musisic.
c.
5

Star n west
Admirers of Vladimir Mikulka, one of
the players for whom the epithet
Vladimir Mikulka
'brilliant' is no mere advertiser's hype,
will be pleased to know that he is now
living permanently in Paris. His
i mp ro v ed accessibilityt ak es
immediate effect in the form of a
Wigmore Hall concert on 3 October,
a bold recital of premieres of works
by East European composers that
promises
year. to be one of the events of
o f the
Obituary
The name of Martha Nelson (b. 1922)
first appeared in the Guitar Review
(published by the Society of the
Classic Guitar in New York) No. 21
(1957) as 'Brazilian Editor', later as
'Contributing Editor' and finally as
Associate Editor' in No. 34 (1971).
In reality her devotion to the Society
and to the journal was total, and their
interests absorbed her waking life; the
organization of some 270 guitar con
certs represented only a part of her
contribution. During the last two
decades her work on behalf of Guitar
Review was essential to its wellbeing,
as it was selflessly given. Her gentle
and leisurely speech proclaimed her
place of origin as the Deep South, to
which she withdrew at the end to die
of cancer in Atlanta, Georgia, on 7
November 1981. In every way she
will be sadly missed by her countless
friends, all th
thos
osee - from the
the worldld
famous to the humble amateur 
who knew her, and, for what she gave
to the world of the guitar, by even
more who never knew her except by
name. W e are all the poorer for her
passing. This brief tribute does not
represent stop-press news but, as this
is our first issue, it is one we must
pay, however late in the day.
6
International contest
The 25th Concours International de
Guitare under the direction of Robert
Vidal has been announced. Works
required for the selection tests in
interpretation are: Sarabande, Gigue
and Double from the 2nd Lute Suite
(Bach); Fandanguillo (Turina);
Impromptus for Guitar (Richard
Rodney Bennett).
Full details from 25 Concours
International de Guitare, France
Musique, 116 Avenue du President
Kennedy, 75786 Paris-Cedex 16,
France.
Early Guitar seminar
Harvey Hope
For the fourth year in succession the
Baroque guitar exponent Harvey
Hope has organised two one-day
courses on the early guitar, on
Sunday 31 October and Sunday 7
November. Players may bring either a
classical guitar or a five-
five-cour
course
se guitar,
although a number of Baroque guitars
will be available for those who attend.
The courses cover repertoire, playing
styles, tablature, technique and the
history and developm
developmentent of the instru
ment. Some remarkable guitars from
Mr Hope s collection will be
displayed, among them instruments
by the 17th century makers Voboam,
Tielke and Platestainer, as well as
18th and 19th century guitars by
Pages, Panormo, Lacote, Stauffer and
others. The course fee of £ 12 includes
a 'ploughmans' lunch with wine.
More details from The Guitar Study
Centre, 64 Ashmore Grove, Welling,
Kent DA16 2RY.
Nonsuch contest
Two new competitions have been
announced by the Nonsuch Guitar
Society, one for players and one for
composers. The winners will be
chosen at the Nonsuch Guitar
Festival 83 at Ewell Court House,
Surrey, on 13 and 14 May 1983.
Prizes include an Asturias guitar,
money, a Wigmore Hall recital and,
for the winning composition, a first
public performance by Raymond
Burley. The adjudicating panel
includes John Mills, Reginald Smith
Brindle, John W. Duarte, Raymond
Burley, Michael Doughty,Gareth
Waiters and one or two others. The
terms of both competitions appear to
imply solo work only, but further
information can be obtained from
Terry Pamplin, Little Critchmere,
Manor Crescent, Haselmere, Surrey.
Please enclose a stamped addressed
envelope.
hester Guitar ircle
One of the main functions of the
Chester Guitar Circle is to encourage
the members, particularly the younger
ones, to perform to a live audience,
writes Charles Scott. The members'
evening on 7 July found no shortage
of enthusiasts willing to play. From a
wide age range, they included Philip
Holt, Dawn Jenks, Ian Powick, Roy
and Rebecca Crosby (father and
daughter), Adam Crook, Dave Sharp,
John Pardoe, Brian Hewitt, Tom
Davis, Chris Birtles, Peter Thorne
and our own Charles Scott himself,
who took the opportunity of
announcing the impending launch of
Classical Guitar Chester Guitar
Circle must be one of the very few to
draw its members from more than
one country; some come from as far
afield as Bangor-on-Dee and Cefn-y
Bedd, in Wales.
Rebecca Crosby was con-
gratulated on achieving entrance to
the Royal Northern College, where
her ability will fmd opportunities for
development and advancement.
Next meeting: first Wednesday in
September (Members evening).
October: recital by Katy Caws, with
high calibre programme of Dowland,
N arvaez, Brouwer
Brouwer,, Walton, Lauro,
Smith Brindle and Rodrigo.
 

CONCERT DIARY
September
14 Thursday 29 Friday
6 Monday Aldenham: London: CAROLlNE
London: MARC ONGLEY OMEGA GUITAR QUARTET McCAUSLAND
Wigmore Hall, 7.30 pm Herts College of Higher Education, (Songs with guitar)
7.30''pm
7.30 Wigmore Hall, 7.30 pm (Songs of the
7 Saturday Country and of the Sea)
Exeter: HARVEY HOPE
Salisbury: HILL/WILTSCHINSKY (ring 0392 78396 for details) Preston: HILL/WILTSCHINSKY
GUITAR DUO
Salisbury
Salisbury Festival
Festival - Med
Mediev
ieval
al Hall,
Hall, GUITAR DUO
Salisbury, 7.30 pm 15 Friday Preston Poly Arts Centre, 7.30 pm
London: MANUEL BARRUECO
10 Friday Wigmore Hall, 7.30 pm 30 Saturday
Lewes: HARVEY HOPE (Bach, Cimarosa, Sor, Gonzalez, Lincoln: HILL/WILTSCHINSKY
(Baroque Guitar) Granados, Rodrigo GUITAR DUO
Alll Saints Art Centre, 7.30 pm
Al Lincoln Guitar Society, 7.30 pm
Wells: OMEGA GUITAR
QUARTET
11 Saturday Wells Centre, Wells next the Sea,
Sawbridgeworth: DAVID and Norfolk, 7.30 pm GUITAR APPRECIATION SOCIETY
RACHEL BURDON (Guitar, violin, OF
oboe) NORTH EAST ENGLAND
16 Saturday
The Old Malthouse, Knight St. prou ly present
Sawbridgeworth: KATY CA WS
(Tel: 0279 722318) 8 pm The Old Malthouse, 8 pm GRAHAMWADE
Oxford: OMEGA GUITAR
17 OCTOBER
14 Tuesday QUARTET
Hull: HARVEY HOPE
Feren Art Gallery, 7.30 pm St Edwards School, 7.30 pm BARNEV
BAR NEV KESSEL
31 OCTOBER
21 Thursday
October London: THE LUTE GROUP HARVEVHO PE
2 Saturday Wigmore Hall, 7.30 pm (Pacoloni, 21 NOVEMBER
Coventry: CARLOS BONELL Milano, Dowland, Valderrabano,
Cothedge Theatre, The Butts Mudarra, Besard, Hume) PEOPLE'S TH E A TRE - 8 pm
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Sussex: CARLOS BONELL
3 Sunday
Gardner Centre, Sussex Univ.,
London: VLADIMIR MIKULKA
7.45 pm
Wigmore Hall, 7.30 pm (Rak,
Koskin)
22 Friday
BARBICAN CENTRE
London: LUIS ZEA SILK STREET
6 Wednesday LONDON EC2Y 80S
Wigmore Hall, 7.30 pm (Bach,
Chester: KATY CAWS
Lauro, Duarte, Barrios, Holborne,
Chester G uitar Circle, 8 pm

NEIL
(Brouwer, Walton) Morley, Milano) -
Nottingham: CARLOS BONELL
7 Thursday
Coleraine: CARLOS BONELL
Nottingham Guitar Centre.
Guest appearance SMITH
Coleraine
Colera ine Univ., N.I.,
N.I ., 8 pm (for venue and details: 0602 622709) WIT H THE

8 Friday 23 Saturday LONDON CONCERT

Derry: CARLOS BONELL Kettering: CARLOS BONELL with
Derry Univ., N.I., 8 pm ENGLISH SINFONIA
ORCHESTRA
(Rodrigo, Carulli. Further details: PLAYING THE
9 Saturday 0602 43653)
Omagh: CARLOS BONELL 'CONCIERTO DE
Omagh Arts Festival, 8 pm 26 Tuesday ARANJUEZ'
Camden: HILL/WILTSCHINSKY
10 Sunday GUITAR DUO
by
Salisbury: HARVEY HOPE Camden Fest
Festiva
ivall - Sh
Shaw
aw Theat
Theatre,
re, JOAQUIN RODRIGO
St Edmunds Guitar Festival London, 1.0
1.05
5 pm
Wednesday TUESDAY 26 OCTOBER 1982
13 28 Thursday
Tiverton: HARVEY HOPE Bangor: CARLOS BONELL at 1.00 pm
East Devon Coll
College,
ege, 7.30 pm Bangor Univ., N Wales, 7.30 pm

7
 

8
 

JULIAN BREAM
The Contribution
by JO N W. DUARTE

THE Julian Bream I first met in the 1940s was a small boy
in short pants; when playing he was virtually obscured by
his guitar, face and arms appearing on its perimeter like
those of a musical Mr Chad. By the time this appears in
print he will, incredibly, be in his 50th year. His fame is now
such that he could, if it were in his nature to do so, join
Segovia in adopting a surname-only billing. We so naturally
accept his presence and stature that we are in danger of
taking him for granted; it is perhaps a good moment at
which to survey the path that has led him to his position of
well-deserved eminence as, in a worthwhile sense, Segovia's
truest successor.
In relation to the guitar itself as a musical medium,
Segovia's principal achievements were:
(i) The establishment of the instrument on concert
platforms around the world, to a hitherto undreamed-of
extent.
(ii) The winning of respect from other musicians for the
guitar and its potential in high-quality music-making.
This had a variety of consequences, one of the most
important of which was his persuasion of non-guitarist
composers to write for this humble and previously
undervalued instrument.
Technological advances - in jet-assisted air travel and in
creati
cre ating
ng the lon
long-
g-pl
playi
aying
ng record
record - grgreat
eatly
ly enhance
enhancedd the
spreading of Segovia's influence and strengthened the situa Julian ream
tion of the guitar in the post-war years. At the same time otherwis
other wisee at that time
time - but wit withi
hin
n half a decad
decadee he was
there were those who viewed the matter with some already moving away from that territory; he has of course
apprehension: if Segovia were for any reason to disappear never entirely deserted it but it now forms only a segment of
from the scene, what would happen to the instrument that his working stock. Segovia had lobbied the sympathetic
was virtually identified with him? Such thoughts may well composers of his youth
youth onon behalf
behalf of th
thee guitar
guitar - Tor
Torrob
roba,
a,
have passed through Segovia's own mind at that time. Turina, Ponce, Villa-Lobos, Castelnuovo-Tedesco and
t was into this scenario that Julian Bream was the flrst others, some of whose music he found unacceptably
'young hopeful' with genuine talent to enter as the 1950s 'dissonant'. In his turn Bream had little difficulty in extract
unfolded. To all intents and purposes a self-taught guitarist, ing new works from a galaxy of co comp
mpos
oser
erss - Benennnet
ettt,
as Segovia was, he acquired a formal musical education Berkeley, Britten, Arnold, Fricker, Rawsthorne, Searle,
(which Segovia did not) at the Royal College of Music in Walton, Davies and Henze are names to conjure with in the
London though, in a haughty establishment where he was wider world of music; many of these works, like those to
requested to carry his guitar in through the back door, there which Segovia acted as midwife, have become standard
was no-one to help him in developing his instrumental items in today's programmes.
studies with the guitar. His official debut, in London's The high reputation of many of those who wrote for
Wigmore Hall, was in 1950 and announced his long Segovia now rest heavily on their guitar works and, indeed,
awaite
awa itedd arriva
arrivall - hi
hiss reputatio
reputation
n had prec
precede
eded him in the
d him some are currently represented in the record catalogue by
guitar-musical world. Through the 1950s it became little else. t is difficult to believe that a like fate will befall
'fashionable', not least among the politically motivated, to many of those on Bream's 'list', though time alone will tell.
ackno
ack nowl
wled
edge
ge Bream's
Bream's remark
remarkable
able musi
musicia
cians
nship
hip - but toto That Bream has been so richly successful is in part owed to
express regret that his guitar playing per s left much to be what Segovia did, causing reputable composers to take the
desired. Such myopic carpings may have hurt his feelings at guitar seriously, but it is equally important that Bream's
the time but they did not retard his development (they may artistry has made it possible for their efforts to be reward
even have provoked its acceleration!) or the spread of his ing. If Bream has not so far embraced anything beyond the
reputation in the world. friendlier manifestations of 12-no
12-notete music (a reaction shared
Since then he has continued to develop in his own way, by most contemporary audiences) his catalytic effect has
shaping his own path and attitudes, and contributing to the been greater than that of any other guitarist of his time; his
prestige and resources of the guitar to an extent unequalled contribution has been vital to the well-being of the guitar. t
by anyone since Segovia in the years of his most passionate has been just as important that it has been ream who has
evangelism. At the beginning of his performing career done it: when an artist of his quality and reputation presents
Bream used what has come to be known as the 'Segovia new music guitarists list n - to his concerts and his
repertoire'
reperto ire' - it wou
wouldld have
have been sur
surpris
prising
ing had
had it bee
been
n record
rec ording
ingss - and lea
learn
rn,, flr
flrst
st to toler
tolerate
ate and
and the
then
n to
 

understand, love and perform the music that at first momentum that others can now maintain more easily
sounded uncomfortably strange, far-removed from the because of what he did; he created the climate in which they
guitar s traditional image . This in turn helps talented, but can now work. Others may trumpet loudly about the things
less influential, performers by creating a climate in which it they have done for the guitar, but a simple count of the new
is more readily accepted that guitar music, like any other, music they play and a head-count of the composers whose
inhabits an evolving rather than a static area. interest th y have stimulated will easily sort the wheat from
Today there are other guitarists whose musical educa the chaff. The world of lute music too owes him a debt that
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LOS ROMEROS
ROMER OS
by GRAHAM WADE

OVER the last three centuries many musical families have

aroused a special fascination. In recent years the names o
Dolmetsch, Menuhin, and Tortelier have represented on the
concert platform not only the patriarch but families o out
standing ability. That music definitely runs in families has
been demonstrated by the sons of J. S. Bach as well as by
Leopold
Leopo ld and W olfg
olfgang
ang Mozart,
Mozart , the Lawes brothers, and the
Strausses o waltz fame including Johann I, II and Ill.
In instrument making, famous dynasties range from the
Stradivaris, the Amatis, and the Guarneris, to the Ramirez.
Famous family units o modern times include Len Williams
and son, Shostakovich and son, the Oistrakhs, Sir Lennox
Berkeley and composer son Michael, Waiter and Alexander
Goehr, and the amazing Abreu brothers.
Los .Romeros
.Romeros have established themselves over the last
twenty years as formidable exponents o the principles o
music in the family . In ensembles o various kinds, includ
ing quartets, quartets with orchestra, and duos, as well as
outstanding solo performances, Los Romeros have assilmed
a unique significance in the crowded world o the inter
national recitalists. For one thing, at a time when record
companies are distinctly discouraging to many guitarists
os Romeros
who deserve a wider audience, the Romero family between
them have made at least two dozen recordings with massive
international sales. characteristic has been well nurtured despite a long
Los·-Romeros consist o father Celedonio and his three residence n the United States. Celedonio Romero, the found-
sons, Pepe, Angel, and Celin. As well as the unique renown ing father, was born in Malaga in 1917, and gave his
the family has achieved through their Guitar Quartet, the Madrid debut in 1937. He was the youngest son o a
reputations o Pepe b. 1944) and Angel (b.1946) as Spanish architectural engineer (the man who designed the
important solo recording artists speci
specialisin
alising
g in both Spanish harbour o Gibralter) and graduated from the Madrid Con
and early 19th century music (including Boccherini, Sor, servatory Celedonio left Spain in 1958 after some years o
and Giuliani) are now secure in the international hierarchy. friction with Franco s regime, and emigrated with his family
A constant stream o world-wide tours (Angel Romero is to America.
visiting Britain this autumn) ensures that the esteem built up Celedonio was a student of Daniel Fortea (1878-1953), a
by their albums is underpinned by frequent personal pupil o Tarrega. f Llobet (1878-1937), Barrios (1885
appearances. 1944), Pujol (1886-1981), Segovia (b.1893), and Regino
Moreover, at a time when leading Spanish players o Sainz de la Maza (1897-1982) might be regarded as the
the classical guitar seem peculiarly thin on the ground, Los vanguard o the twentieth century guitar movement, then
Romeros have reasserted the Spanish identity o the guitar Oyanguren (b.1905), Maria Luisa Anido (b.1907), Scheit
and provided a necessary corrective to the abundance o (b.1909), Luise Walker (b.1910), Gomez (b.1911), Azpiazu
northern European and Anglo-Saxon viewpoints o the (b.1912) and Almeida and Rey de la Torre (both born 1917)
guitar and its repertoire which have threatened to dominate represent the second generation. t is in this group that
the commanding heights. t is essential that the three pillars Celedonio Romero belongs, and he is clearly a most sig-
o the guitar s conte
contempor
mporary
ary appeal
appeal - north Europea
European,
n, nificant player o this generation.
Spanish,
Span ish, and South
South American
American - shou
should
ld be
be well represented Comparison o Celedoni
Celedonioo s own solo recordings with
by a balance o recitalists from all three areas. others o his era shows that he can easily hold his own with
For a healthy awareness o the repertoire we must, most o them, Rey de la Torre, perhaps Llobet s most
from time to time, hear Spanish music interpreted by brilliant pupil, being the most formidable, and Laurindo
Spanish players, Villa-Lobos played by Brazilians, Almeida the most well-known. In historical terms this
Venezuelan music in the dazzling hands o Alirio Diaz, and generation o players has probably had the least apprecia
the works o Walton, Britten, and Arnold as demonstrated tion from the critics, being sandwiched between the
in the strictly untarnished urtext versions o Bream. The illustrious forefathers and the brilliant breed o the 1920s
internationalism o the guitar is now irrevocably founded on and 30s. Yet it was to this intermediate group that the
solid ground. Yet how necessary to go back to interpreta generation of Diaz b. 1923), Presti (1924-67), Yepes
tions originating from the native soil of the composer s art. b. 1927), Ragossnig (b.1932), Behrend (b.1933) and Breaream
m
Los Romeros, as Joaqum Rodrigo remarked, have their (b.1933) often had to turn where possible for a little
Spanishness as their special stamp o identity . This guidance if geographical opportunities permitted.

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Los Romeros - Pepe, Angel and Celin Romero with their father Celedonio Romero
Like that other teacher, whose influence on the guitar
scene was like a tidal wave, Len Williams (b.191O),
Celedonio Romero has achieved a remarkable pedagogic
feat, that o equipping his sons with both technique and ins
piration. t is a fascinating exercise to compare Celedonio s
own recording of, for example, Narvaez Guardame las
Vacas, with that by his eldest son, Pepe, or the two versions
by father and son o Sor s Variations on a Theme o
Mozart, Op 9. The distinctions are not only technical but
also stylistic, that much misunderstood aspect o 20th
century guitar history.
Celedonio has succeeded in teaching his sons so well that
their musical development is not constricted yet continuity
of generatio
generations
ns is maintained. This example o guitar evolu
tion within a single family is extraordinary and unique. t
has even been revealed that, initially Celedonio demanded of
the boys that they should play without nails, in the true
Tarrega tradition, before going on to master the modern
technique Guitar Player, January 1981). Thus Celedonio
has provided an important historical link between the early
20th century traditions o the guitar in the Tarrega school,
and later developments in the contemporary guitar world.
The ensemble playing o Los Romeros is in itself an
innovation, both in its excellence and in its repertoire. As an
ensemble they have a distinctive, immediately recognisable
quality o timbre, warm, elegant and expressive, and above
all an ease and naturalness other quartets just have not
achieved. Family togetherness is obviously at a premium
12
here as they cohere the wilful spirits o four guitars into one
musical entity. Their sonorities in quartet performance
provide an object lesson in that blending o tone so elusive
to more spasmodic attempts at ensemble music one hears
occasionally. Los Romeros manage to deliver the impres
sion o one large resonating guitar rather than four guitars
played by separate individuals. Such musical closeness can
surely be achieved only by performers intimately related.
But the Romeros are probably aware that the sound o
four guitars is not entirely satisfactory as a musical
medium. Guitar ensemble material is greatly inferior to the
richness and variety o ensemble music for other instru
ments. The balanced voicing o a string quartet, superbly
exploited by all the leading composers over the last two and
a half centuries, is quite unlike the homogeneity o four
guitars (even when a requinto or two may be added to take
the soprano line). The chemistry o four guitars can quickly
induce monotony with a rather cloying textural brew, at
first delightful but later repetitive.
The Romeros have tried to solve these problems.
Though the deficit in the ensemble repertoire cannot be
made up, and transcriptions o Vivaldi, Telemann, Haydn,
provide no real answer, the Romeros have inspired such
composers as Rodrigo and Torroba to look afresh at the
challenges o ensemble music. Rodrigo s Conc
Conciert
ierto
o An dalu
daluzz
for four guitars and orchestra, li
for ke Torrob a s Concierto
like
Iberico, attempts to bring in variety and contrast by using
orchestral colour as a foil to the tones o plucked sound.
 

As a medium for sustained listening, the combination of

quartet and orchestra is perhaps limited. The music is
always melodious and imaginative, sometimes even evoking
the pictorialism of mm music. Yet the range o f available
available
surprises soon diminishes and once the initial pleasantness
VIRTUOSO
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movement of Torroba's work, the melody enters played by AMERICAN
the guitars, sweetness is paramount. But the purple intent of GUITAR
the writing
writing leads
leads towards prettiness and pleasure rather than
th an
to that depth of emotion which takes us far beyond mere
delight. JORG MOREL
The fault here is perhaps less with the nature of
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incorporateinspiration than with
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SCALES A NECESSARY EVIL?

by NEIL SMITH

SOME years ago my harmony teacher, a fine pianist, drew pelled to prepare the next note, discontinue the sounding
my attention to a document he kept by him during piano note nd time the right-hand stroke precisely. In ascending
lessons; it contained an impressive list
list of names - Brahms, one is not compelled to remove the finger(s) from the pre
Chopin
Cho pin,, Liszt,
Liszt, Krei
Kreisl
sler
er,, Rubinst
Rubinstein
ein and others
others - atta
attached
ched vious note(s); this makes one less
less problem for the hands and
to single-sentence quotations relating to scales and their role mind to deal with.
in the life of a professional musician. None of these quota If we play the single-string scale of Ex. 1 at half-note
tions were from guitarists. At that time I was beginning to (minim) 200 the ascending and descending portions will
understand the value of scales to a guitarist, though I knew require different treatments. Leaving the fingers in place
that many abhorred the word itself let alone the work that works well in ascent, but what sounds best in descent? Very
was involved. very slow practice is essential and close listening is needed
There are good reasons why work with scales is valu to eliminate problems with the left hand and to synchronize
able in both the physical (performance) and academic the action of the right.
(theory) sense. First, without probing too deeply, the Further techno-musical problems arise in playing the
academic view: even a cursory examination of music before . simple scale in Ex.2. If we play the first note, C, and keep it
1900 (and much of it after that) will show that it is con held down while placing the 4th finger on the next note, D,
structed with scales as its raw materials; melodies and har we achieve a legato so far as the left hand is concerned (but
monies are largely built from scale notes. Through this one not a slur); this is potentially the smoothest way to join the
may obtain a modest insight on the processes of composi D with the C. The role of the right hand at this point must
tion in
in traditio nal music and may begin
begin to relate
relate them to however be considered: once the first note is sounding it
more recent musical trends. may be stopped in three ways:
In the physical sense the development is usually con 1 The 2nd finger can be lifted.
fined to major, minor, chromatic, whole-tone and intervallic 2 The 4th finger may arrive early on its note.
(thirds, sixths, octaves and tenths) scales but, however 3. The right han d can arrive early in approaching the next
limited they may seem in theoretical range, they can be used stroke, touching the already vibrating string.
to develop power, agility, speed, good tone, accuracy and The full note-length of the first note can be realized only
endurance - and because
endurance because the
their
ir notes
notes are
are the ver
very
y fibr
fibres
es of if the right-hand finger begins to touch and move through
the musical fabrics they relate directly to the vitally the string at the precise moment when the next left-hand
important area of interpretation. One difficulty is that finger stops its note. If this movement is not perfectly con
melodies, usually couch ed in
in scale notes, often refuse to fit trolled a small silence will result of practical value in
on the guitar in a technically simple way. A theoretically staccato passages) and this will become an annoyance,
simple sequence of notes such as CEFDC can result, with interrupting a flowing melodic line. This difference in
an inexperienced player, in an unmusical jumble of sounds; depressing, striking and releasing accounts for the effect
even a player who is fairly advanced may produce a poor produced by outstanding performers in playing any
result if such a sequence is played at high speed in any particular passage. The length of each sound is decided by
octave and with any fingering. each player, guided by the ears and controlled by the hands;
Although there are many scale books in print, most intelligent scale practice can make this possible. This
give little indication as to how their contents are to be element of articulation helps to give life, depth, interest and
practised; however, some do. Pascual Roch (a pupil of meaning to a passage.
Titrrega), n his tutor of 1921, tells the player to keep the To return to the fmgerboard: let us examine more
left-hand fingers depressed for as long as possible, releasing carefully the playing of su succ
cces
essi
sive
ve not
notes
es - seseco
cond
nd and
and
the pressure only when necessary. A similar approach is third DIE), and the return journeys from third to second
advocated in Hector Quine 
Quine   s Introduction to the uitar E/D) and second to first DIC). Though pre-pla
pre-placement
cement of
(1971) though it is stated that fingers should be removed the 2nd finger on the C secures that note without interrup
from one string after the first note on the next string has tion the movement is difficult when the music is moving
been sounded. The Roch tutor states that, in descending quickly or in a complex way (or both) since we may not
passages, all fingers should fall simultaneously on to their have time to do it. the D is lifted before the C is prepared
respective notes, preparing them in advance; on this point a brief silence will result and one may lose security
security of touch.
Quine is less specific. One thing is ce
cert
rtai
ain
n - de
desc
scen
entt alo
along
ng Ideally, the fingers should exchange one note for another;
one string is very different from ascent in that one is com- this requires great care, very slow practice and, above all,

,
Ex.l X
  I V
  4 I
 
  -I 3 3 1

t
  4 4 2
1 1

r f r
1 1

IT
IT f= IT IT IT :
repeat several times
Ex.2
T
2 4 2 4 3 4

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attentive listening Problems arise in crossing from one

string to another: in following the D with the E (or vice
versa), for instance, the first of the two notes must stop
sounding at some point. If the two notes overlap they will
produce a transient major 2nd, which may not be what the
music
mus ic calls
calls fo
forr - and this
this should
should be detec
detected
ted by liste
listenin
ning
g
Barney
carefully. In moving from D to E a gentle apoyando on the
second note will cut short the first, even if it is still
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string
A right-hand froger may damp the first note by touching EFFECTIVE
its string.
These, singly or in combination, can eliminate unwanted
GUITARIST
overlaps and the results are to be judged by listening
2 8 to 31 October
This is the tip of the iceberg. If the reader remains
unconvinced of the value of work with scales he/she should 1982. For free
tape-record scales played at a metronome speed of 100, booklet containing
with four notes to each beat (400 notes per minute), for a ' detailed information
minimum of 30 beats. If the playback reveals any problem
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routine, of work with scales without delay. 0 guitarists o f all styles
write to:
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P G NINI ND THE GUITAR

by H R VEY HOPE

PERHAPS the most romantic figure in the history of the

violin was the virtuoso Nicolo Paganini. His accomplish
ments remain a source of wonder to violinists to this day.
He was born in Genoa on 28 October 1782. His father, who
managed to make a living as a merchant, was passionately
fond of music and encouraged the young Nicolo at an early
agee to pla
ag playy the
the manmandodoli
lin
n - some
some mimigh
ghtt say
say too
enthusiastically. There is little doubt that his father was a
strict disciplinarian and forced his son to practice for many
hours each day. t must have been obvious that Nicolo was
no ordinary beginner, and indeed he showed such an
aptitudee that he was very soon placed under the guidance of
aptitud
some of the most highly esteemed teachers, with whom he
studied the mandolin, the guitar and the violin. He was soon
giving concerts and, realising his capacity for earning
money, his father sought to tighten the control he had over
his son. When Nicolo was 17 he went to perform at the
festival at Lucca, and took the opportunity to run away
from home.
Having been under such an authoritarian rule for so
long, it is little wonder that he went to the other extreme.
His time was spent in the taverns, with the ladies, or at the
gambling tables. He was always in debt and was reduced to
pawning his treasured violin.
At one time he was associated with Eliza Bonaparte,
Napoleon's sister. t was said that 'she fainted often during Nicolo Paganini
his conc
concerts'
erts'.. She
She wasn't
wasn't thethe onl
only
y one
one - a googoodd many
many
young ladies went into raptures and swooned with excite On his second visit to Paris, Paganini visited the
ment when they heard Paganini play. famous instrument maker and dealer Vuillaume, who
Following
Follow ing a brillian
brilliantt early career, Paganini disappeared showed him a guitar that had been made by Grobert, a
from the musical scene and lived with a certain aristocratic violin maker of Mirecourt. The instrument appealed to
lady of Tuscany. He never revealed her identity. The only Paganini, who borrowed it When it was returned,
clue to her name is the compositions he dedicated to her, Vuillaume suggested that Paganini autograph the table.
bearing the pet name 'Dida'. As she preferred the guitar, Later, the same instrument was lent to Berlioz, who added
and may well have been a fine player, he laid aside the violin his signature opposite to that of Paganini; it is now in the
for the three years he spent at her villa; his first composi museum of the Paris Conservatoire.
tions for the guitar date from this period. For several years Paganini appeared able to achieve the impossible on the
he lived with the singer Antonio Bianchi, who bore him a violin. t was rumoured that he was in league with the devil
son, Achille. for how else could such amazing sounds be produced? t
The guitar continued to play an important part in is easy to understand how these rumours began. His every
Paganini's life When he was asked by a friend why he spent appearance both hypnotised and inspired his audience. He
so much time with it he replied I love it for its harmony; it was a tall, thin man with a striking i f haggard face and
is the constant companion of my travels'. piercing eyes. When he performed on stage, the odd
A number of guitars have been said to have belonged to shadows cast by the flickering candles and oil lamps served
Paganini. One such instrument and a mandolin were to heighten the impression of the supernatural. Always with
originally in the Heyer Museum, Cologne, but were an eye to publicity, Paganini encouraged the mysteries that
transferred to Leipzig in 1925; their location is not now surrounded him. He took to wearing black clothes and let
known. They are illustrated in The Guitar and a nd Mandolin by his hair grow long. When he was asked about his system of
P J. Bone. The photograph shows the mandolin to be in playing, he would smile mysteriously and say 'everyone has
fact a mandore, or liuto soprano This was a small lute, his secrets'. Only when Satan began to get the credit for his
about the size of a mandolin, with six pairs of strings. At playing did he take the trouble
trouble to refute
refute the rumours He
some time it had been altered to take four pairs of strings delighted in astonishing his audiences. A favourite trick was
arranged in the Neapolitan style, and tuned to the same to break a string in the middle of a piece, preferably in some
intervals as the violin. fiendishly difficult variation, and to continue as i f nothing
Another guitar, sold at auction in London in 1906, was had happened. Once he played a series of variations using a
described as 'an interesting guitar, formerly, the property of walking stick instead of a bow When the composer May
the great
gr eat Paganini'. The where-abouts of this instrument is seder challenged him to play one of his most difficult com
also now unknown. A mandolin and a guitar are reported to positions, believing t impossible to be played at sight,
have been given to the town of Genoa by Paganini's Paganini handed him his violin and asked him to put if out
grandson in the early 1900s. of tune; he then proceeded to play the work faultlessly.

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He was a close friend o the composer Rossini. In

Rome during the carnival o 1822, the two dressed up as
beggar-women and strolled the streets strumming their
guitars and singing a begging song composed by Rossini.
They must have appeared a comical pair, for Paganini was
tall and very thin, whilst Rossini was short and fat. They
collected the composer Meyerbeer from his lodgings and,
while Paganini and Rossini played and sang, Meyerbeer
passed the hat round.
In the Summer o 1834 Paganini purchased a large
country villa, the Villa Gaiono. He shared it with the guitar
virtuoso Luigi Legnani for several months and they spent
much o the time rehearsing for a proposed tour to London.
They gave a number o concerts in the towns o Northern
Italy, and on 27 June 1837 gave a recital together in Turin.
This was destined to be Paganini s last public performance.
They had planned to give a recital in a new casino in
Paris, on the way to London. Paganini had invested heavily
in this venture and, when the authorities refused to license
the building for gaming, he suffered considerable financial
loss. The directors o the establishment sued him for breach
o cont ract and these legal and financial
financial worries
worries contributed
to the deterioration o his health. He was already a very sick
man and the plans for a joint tour fell through. In the hope
that a change o air would help him to regain his health, he
moved to Marseilles and then to his native Genoa. With the
onset o Winter he moved to the warmer climate o Nice.
Sadly the moves were in vain for he died in Nice on 27 May
1840.
As a violinist Paganini had been incomparable. As a
guitarist, he was considered by many to be the equal o the
virtuoso Giulio Regondi. The celebrated guitarist Carulli, a
contemporary o Paganini, says in his his tutor that he was a
fine
fine p erformer on the g uitar .
A commemo rative plaque aff affixe
ixed
d to the house where he
died bears the inscription:
Nicolo Paganini died in this house 27 May 1840.
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by JOHN W . DUARTE

Part
THIS series of articles is not intended to cover its subject 5. What is the name of the interval between the following
comprehensively but, rather, to provide a sound basis of pairs of notes, assuming the first of each pair to be the
knowledge for those who are content to let it rest there,or on lower and the interval to be simple?
which more
which more strongl
strongly
y motivated
motivated readers
readers may buibuild
ld - eit
either
her C and Gb D and Bb A and C Db and A D and Cb
by reading the available textbooks or by taking lessons lessons Bb and F#
with a properly informed teacher. Answers are given at the end of this article.
t is not necess ary to examin
examinee too many piepieces
ces of music
in order to discover that a given melody may be underpin Intervals
ned with various harmomic sequences and, equally, that Two notes are not enough to form even the simplest chord,
even the simplest harmomic progression or formula may though they may suggest one, yet when played together
support a wide variety of melodies. Given even a particular they signal the beginnings of harmony. If we play two notes
melody and a specific progression of chords, the latter may successively we hear th their
eir in
indi
divi
vidu
dual
al chara
characters
cters - pit pitch,
ch,
appear with different bass notes, creating correspondingly timbre volume duration but if we play them
different combinations of upper (melody) and bass voices simultaneously they acquire an extra dimension. Different
- a question of counterpoint in a simple form. What this pairs of notes make different, subjective and emotional
means is that, despite the existence of numerous 'chord impacts on us and display a par ticular identity of their own.
encycl
enc yclope
opedia
dias'
s' - mor
moree impre
impress
ssiv
ivee to loo
look
k at than of value If we think of the effect of two separate notes as 4 and 5,
in use, it is impossible entirely to separate harmony from the when they are played simultaneously their sum is greater
other facets of music. Neither are such close bedfellows as than 9!
melody and harmony inexorably linked by predictable for The emotional effect of intervals varies widely and is
mulae that can be applied like ready reckoners; this is just subjective insofar as different listeners may use different
as well since, if it were otherwise, music could be written words to describe the effect of anyone interval. t is not that
with the simple aid of a handbook and without need of crea we perceive different characters when we listen to the same
tive imagination. There are clearly limits to what can be interval, we may simply use different words to describe the
achieved in a series of this nature (and, perhaps, to what same emotional area. We can in fact group intervals into
should even be attempted) but we will do the best we can 'families' within which the emotional effect is very similar;
within them. in doing so we use only the simplest ways of describing the
possib
pos sible
le note-
note-separat
separations
ions wit
withi
hin
n and octave
octave - a minor
minor 6th6th
The starting ground sounds like
like an augmented 5th (each has the same number of
Some basic knowledge of what is regrettably called music semitones) so we describe the interval as a minor 6th:
'theory' is necessary if one is to approach the subject of perf
pe rfec
ectt in
inte
terv
rval
alss - 1st, 4t
4th,
h, 5t
5th,
h, 8t8th
h - stro
st rong
ng,, sta
stark
rk,,
harmony; the information supplied by the ears alone is not empty, cold, severe. Minor and major 3rds and 6ths 
enough, important though it is. We must assume a pleasing, harmonious, friendly, warm, compatible. Minor
minimum level of knowledge of basics that can be gleaned and major
major 2nds
2nds and 7ths
7ths - unple
unpleasant,
asant, discord
discordant,
ant, agg
aggres
res
from any standard primer 2 - notation, construction of sive, acidic, angular. Augmented 4th or diminished 5th
major and minor scales, descriptions
descriptions of degrees of the scale, (trito
(tritone)
ne) - vag vague,
ue, meande
meanderinring,
g, uncertain,
uncertain, lack
lacking
ing strengt
strength.
h.
the nomenclature of intervals. To provide some sort of Write out and play, repeatedly, as wide a variety of all
guidance, the reader should be able to answer the questions these intervals as your conscience and patience permit.
in the
the foll
follow
owin
ing
g 'te st' without
without too much
much dif
diffi
ficul
culty
ty - pre
pre isten to them carefully and learn to recognize their
ferably in the mind rather than on paper. If this proves emoti
emo tion
onalal type - li list
sten
enin
ing
g (not just overh
overhear
earing
ing)) is what
impossible, or laboriously difficult, at this stage, the reader music is finally all about. After some time ask a friend to
is advised to consolidate this basic knowledge before play a variety of intervals to you, not necessarily on the
approaching these articles. guitar, and t ry to iden tify the group to which they belong by
identify
1. Nam e the 4th degre
degreee of the scale of E major. recognising the type of effect they have on the ear.
6th degree of the scale of B major. As the next step, listen again to repeated playings of all
submediant of the scale of G major. possible intervals with the object of learning to differentiate
leading note of the scale of E minor. among the members of a particular group. The interval is
clearly from, say, group one (perfect) but which one is it?
2. Name the relative minor of A major.
Focus your ears in these ways:
Eb major.
Perfect
Perfe ct - the unison
unison and octave
octave should
should bebe easy
easy to reco
recog
g
relative
relative major of G minor.
nize and to differentiate, the 5th has a much
B minor.
'stronger' effect, reminiscent of a bagpipe drone,
3. What note is a Perfect 5th above A? Minor 6th above F? than the more 'neutral' 4th.
Major 3rd above Ab? Major 7th above 3rds
3r ds ver
versu
suss 6th
6thss - the former
former sound 'closer' and 'tig 'tighter
hter''
Db? than the latter.
4. What interval do you get if you invert a Minor 2nd? 2ndss and 7th
2nd 7thss - 2nds are vicio vicious
us (li
(like
ke hand-ta-hand
hand-ta-hand fi ght
Major 3rd? Augmented 4th? Diminished 5th? Major ing), 7ths are just disagreeable (like throw
6th? Minor 7th? ing stones across the street).

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This very attractive piece seems to suit a tempo of
(crotchet = 63). The rhythm in bar 12 (and all similar
figures) is not clear. I suggest that either the final three notes
should be treated as a triplet (this completes the bar) or the
opening figure of this bar should be played as LtLJ) part
of a 6/8 bar. In this case, ignore the triplet figure to com
plete the bar of 6/8. The second bar after has a reach
down
slides to
to III
F whilst holding
and then on to4 on, this isthe
E. Play important,
piece in the 4 later
a relaxed
manner, perhaps moving on a little at the second time bar to
realise the crescendo implied.
BAGATELLE No. 4/0liver Hunt
The tempo here is suggested by the composer and this
makes bars 25 to 32 fairly difficult. Try at a slower tempo
here until the fingerwork is secured using the 2 or 3 to guide
the left hand. The slurs marked (X) can be played by the left
hand alone ie hammer), in this case, allow the finger to
'hammer on' and simultaneously lean against the upper
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SICILIANA/MEISSONNIER
A speed of J = 72 would suit this work, quite quick for the
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barre' ie: point the finger tip up off the fingerboard allowing
the opposite and (knuckle end) to depress the string. This
avoids the awkward move from the B in the previous bar. bar .
J Tr y to bring ou
Try outt the bass figur
figures
es in line
liness 4 5 as they move
move
towards the cadence; line 5 bars 2-3.
P ASTORALE/SOR
A speed of J = 54 is suitable here, keep the music flowing
and legato. In line 5 bar 3 try to avoid shortening the G (in
barre), use a swift move back to 1st position. The quintuplet
in line 6 starts as an anacrusis to the rest of this figure (A
major ending). Slur the notes holding on the lower thirds. In
cases of difficulty such as this, it can be recommended to
always 'remove' (temporarily) the ornament; just play the
chords and imagine how the ornament should 'fit in'
naturally before attempting the complete phrase. Also in
line 6 bars 4 to 5, use the 3 to play the F and at this
moment try to prep ace 2 and 1 on their respective strings
anticipating the oncoming notes in III position.
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Analysis o the Prelude from the
Prelude, Fugue and Allegro BMV998) by Bach
by OLIVER
THIS is the first in a series of three articles. The second will
consider the phrasing and interpretation of the Prelude and
the last will be concerned with the fingering. I recommend
the Kalmus Study Scores which can be obtained from
Universal Edition. This is a publication of the original
Gesellschaft edition.
One cannot make intelligent choices about phrasing and
dynamics or for that matter even fingering until one has
analysed the piece. Since music takes place in time, a good
analysis should also concern itself with the passage of
musical events in time and the way these events interlock
and diverge. I therefore think it a good idea to organise ones
analysis on different levels. When one talks about levels, one
refers to the highest level and then a succession of levels
moving down to lower ones. High levels take in relatively
longer stretches of time and lower levels take in relatively
shorter stretches of time. One may list these starting with
the highest. There are certain other aspects which are not
necessarily so neatly time-centred, Modulation, Harmony
and Rhythm are other aspects that will be considered later.
These are not necessarily hierarchic in their time-spans.
Repetition and variation must also be looked for in any
analysis. Repetition is not confined to themes; the  the re
re are
repetitions of processes, structures and keys. All these
things should be shown in good analysis.
I have analysed this piece in the form of a matrix. The
horizontal axis shows the duration of the piece in bars and
the vertical axis shows the compositional parameters.
Looking at this matrix I believe that one can make an
observation about good continuation in a composition. This
law, roughly speaking, is stated as follows: Rarely do all the
parameters in a piece change at the same time. I shall now
explain the terms used in the vertical axis of the matrix.
1. Section. A represents a recurring idea, B C, D etc, etc ,
represent variations.
2 Phrase. Phrases always end with perfect cadences and
represent self-sufficient ideas or groups of ideas. Sub
phrases represent modifications or changes of ideas within
phrases not usually ending with perfect cadences unless
they occur between sequences as they do in between bars
11 12 and 21. These are not generally regarded as cadences
because they do not coincide with the end of a process.
MOVEMENT p R E L
SECTION Al c A3 D A4
PHRASE
SUB PHRASE
MODULATION
MOTIVE
RHYTHM
30
UNT
3. Modulation. T = Tonic, D = Dominant, ST = Super
Tonic, R = Relative, M = Mediant, SD = Sub-dominant
and lower-case m = minor. All keys are reckoned from the
tonic.
4 The Motive. The auxiliary note motive which occurs on
the 1st and 2nd beat of bar 1 is repeated throughout the
entire piece. The shaded areas represent the bars in which it
appears.
5 Rhythm. The rhythm likewise remains constant except
for bar 40 which is also shaded. t can be seen from this
matrix that at no point do all parameters change
simultaneously; there are constant overlaps. Even at bar 40
where the degree of change is most striking, i.e. the division
of the sub-phrase, the modulation and the absence of the
principal motives and a break in the rhythm. There remain
two constants. First, there is no clearly defined cadence.
Second, the break does not coincide with the final return of
a 5. I believe this whole question of parametric overlap to
be one of the principal hallmarks of good composition.
Repetition and variation alone will not guarantee good
continuation.
Formal aspects not shown in the matrix. Space does not
allow a complete harmonic analysis but it should be done as
follows:
I quote bars 11 and 12. For chord symbols I recommend
a combination of Roman numerals and figured bass.
Modulations are illustrated by a double set of numerals
which show the pivot chord connection between the two
keys. The different keys are shown by the above abbrevia
tions in the matrix. The letter U means an unessential note
not belonging to the prevailing harmony. The distinction
between chord tones and unessential notes is most
important when deciding upon good fingering, which I shall
discuss in the final essay.
Higher Level Harmony Analysis
I quote a condensed
con densed form of bars 1-1
1-11.
1. t can be seen that
scales can be excised from the welter of melodic activity on
a .higher
.higher level. I will propose a tentative set of axioms in
order to determine what gives these scale tones their
u D E
E s
Final
Section
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privil
privileg
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ed posit
position
ion - tentati
tentative
ve beca
because
use th
this
is for
form
m of Schenker attempts to prove that these higher level scales or
analysis, based on the theories of Heinrich Schenker, is Uhrlinien as he calls them, dominate entire movements. I
rather controversial. think, however, that the consistency of this idea is difficult
to demonstrate over longer time-stretches. I believe that the
1. They are usually harmony notes.
concept of the Uhrlinie is useful on a fairly low foreground
2. They may be mobile while other notes remain static.
level and that one should never attempt to force music into
3. They are often to be found in the highest and lowest
a priori concepts which do not fit the musical facts
registers, when they fulftl some but not all of the above con satisfactorily. The purpose of the Uhrlinie is to demonstrate
ditions, e.g. the E in bar 4, the D in bar 5, the B in bar 9 and the main thrust and direction of the music in order that the
the A in bar 10. They will be harmony notes which occur performer may not be bogged down by too much
either more often than others or their duration; explicit or extraneous detail.
implied, will be longer. In other words, they must be There is much more that I could say about this move
prominent in some way to justify their privileged position. ment. What I have said can be only an outline of a method.

BARS 11 AND 12

Fig. 2 U U U u

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BARS 1 to 11

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IMPRESSIONS FOR GUITAR by Ruth
Nunn
Punchbowl Music. £2.50.
First impressions are important and I
think a cover that only grudgingly reveals
the title will not help this book. There are
seven pieces which, I recaiI, were
originally written as illustrations for a
series of teaching notes in a magazine;
this may be why two have helpful sub
titles -  The Shepherd PiperPiper - a legato
study in 3rd position but why why not the
others? The pieces appear to have been
assembled in suitable batting order but
with little thought of inspection before
taking the field. Only one, for instance,
has a metronome-marked speed. The
sunken Cathedral is the only one with an
alternative part for small
small hands but the
replaced chords are not really difficult
anyway - and are small-handed
guitarists going to buy the book for one
piece, one invoking comparisons with a
rather better-known, French depiction of
the same unusual subject? Fire Dance is
claimed to be a study in 2nd position but
I see little evidence of this, except in the
little run of quavers in the last two bars
- when the fire has gone out; the rhythm
is less insistent than the title of dance
implies.
Birds migrating is quite pleasing to
play, the fmger
fmgerss migra
migrating
ting up and down
the fmgerboard in shifting positions, and
the cuckoo in harmonics adds a wistful
charm to thethe end
end - do cuck
cuckoos
oos migr
migrate
ate??
The Shepherd
Shep herd Piper calls for the remark
able feat of making a crescendo through a
tied note, four times. Winter Landscape is
pleasant enough, and falls well under the
hand, but I feel that, as in most of these
pieces, the musical ideas are less fully
developed than they might be. In this and
four of the others the composer resorts to
an A-B-A plan; ternary form is con
venient to work in, but not necesarily
expressive of the way one sees a land
scape, migrating birds, or any of
o f the other
subjects. Snatches of ticks, tocks, chimes
and cuckoos are put together, not very
convincingly, in Clock Fantasy. Clocks
are mechanical things and seem to call for
a steady (crotchet) beat amid the other
goings-on, even if the spring does run
down from time to time.
y a Sussex River ank has long,
sustained, six-note chords alternated with
rippling arpeggios that make full use of
different sonorities by having the lowest
two strings retuned, but again the music
leads us nowhere, too brief a glimpse.
The music is clearly fingered and
printed; the composer rates the level of
difficulty as Grade Ill-IV. The book is
unlikely to be snapped up greedily by
younger or less experienced players since
there is music of a more appealing (even
exciting) nature readily available. The
34
~ ~ ~ ~
pieces are, by their very nature, inward
looking statements of their composer s
looking
own impressions and not, I feel, likely to
appeal to a wide market .
Frances Gray
Punchbowl Music, Leigh Heights,
Haslemere Road, Hindhead, Surrey.
HOMAGE TO ANTONIO LAURO
(THREE WALTZES) Op. 83 for guitar
solo by John Duarte.
London/Universal Edition UE 29170,
£1.50
The guitar works. of the Venezuelan
guitarist and composer, Antonio Lauro
are popular throughout the world, due
principally to guitarist and fellow
countryman, Alirio Diaz. The most
popular pieces are, without doubt, the
various Valses Venezolanos.
John Duarte s Homage to Antonio
Lauro consists of three waltzes in el
estilo Venezolano , written firmly in the
Lauro tradition, including much use of
the 3/4, 6/8 hemiola rhythm. As we have
come to expect from John Duarte, the
three pieces are skillfully and thoughtfully
constructed.
The Waltzes are marked Moderato
con grazia. Andante espressivo (with D
tuning), and Ritmico e con brio in rondo
form).
The Homage to Antonio Lauro is
, slightly easier to play than the majority of
the published Lauro waltzes and could be
programmed very effectively alongside
Lauro s origi
original
nal compositions, o r indeed,
as a welcome alternative.
The printed fingering is adequate and
the few misprints are easily identifiable.
Raymond Burley
n or
INSIEME (or
harpsichord Op.piano) by Johnguitar and
Duarte
Ancona/Berben 2366, n.p.
The repertoire for guitar and harpsichord
is far from large, in fact, works of sub
stance can virtually be counted on the
fingers of two hands. The publication of a
new work for this medium is indeed an
exciting event, particularly when it is an
item of quality, as in this case. Insieme is
dear to me as I was present at the birth
and, together with harpsichordist Steph
Stephen
en
Bell, gave the first performance at the
Wigmore Hall in June 1978 and the first
broadcast performance on BBC Radio 3
shortly aftwards. Insieme is the result of a
suggestion from Segovia to Duarte in the
late 1960s, t hat he and Mario
Castelnuovo-Tedesco should exchange
themes in order that each might write
works based on the other s material. At
the beginning of 1968 a theme arrived
from Castelnuovo-Tedesco, however,
~ m u s i
before Duarte could send his contribu
tion, Tedesco died. The theme remained
unused until 1978 when Op. 72 was com
menced.
Insieme (meaning together in
Castelnuovo-Tedesco s nativ
nativee language,
Italian) consists of a haunting chromatic
theme followed by five contrasting varia
tions and a Finale. The variations are
marked, Un poco agitato, Alla marcia,
Largo e dignitoso, Scherzoso and Alla
siciliana. The Finale, which is in the form
of a Passacaglia may also be considered
as an extended variation.
The work is tonal and effective use is
made of the chromatic scale and
chromatic harmony. Castelnuovo
stylee is very much in evidence
Tedesco s styl
at all times. The playing standard of the
individual parts is moderate and no feats
of virtuosity are called for.
The music is printed in full score - a
separate guitar part not being necessary
as page turns are in convenient places.
The absence of fingering should not deter
the guitarist from attempting the work as
any problems in this direction can be
easily overcome. The few misprints that
exist are obvious with, perhaps, the
exception of the missing ties connecting
the fmal two chords in the guitar part.
Raymond Burley
ENGLISH SUITE No. 2 Op. 77 for two
guitars by John Duarte
London/Universal Edition UE 29169,
£2.00
During the last century there has been a
renewal of interest in the English
folk song, which can be attributed largely
to the collecting and cataloguing by Cecil
Sharp and Ralph Vaughari Williams
amongst others. There is no better way of
keeping this valuable music alive, than by
performing it.
John Duarte s English Suite No. 2, like
English Suite No. 1 for solo guitar, No. 3
for four guitars and No. 4 for recorder
and guitar, comprises English folk song
melodies and composed material which
together provide a work which is both
interesting and charming. The Suite was
Gre.ek
written at the request of the Gre. ek guitar
duo, Evangelos and Liza, who also gave
the first performance in the Wigmore Hall
on the 2 May 1980.
The work is in three movements
marked, Cheerfully, Lyrical and Smooth,
and Brightly. The opening movement
uses the Somerset folksong, The Brisk
Young Widow as its main theme, consist
ing of two-part writing in the outer sec
chordal   accompaniment in the
tions and a chordal 
slower central section. The slow second
movement uses the Essex song, The Lost
Lady Found and is both expressive and
 
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moving. The final movement is in the
form of a rondo and uses the Hampshire
song, Sing Ivy, together with Gently,
Johnny, my Jingalo as the central couplet.
Percussion on the sound board is featured
in the 2nd guitar part at both the begin
ning and end of the movement.
English Suite No 2 is extremely well
written and is of moderate difficulty. It is
almost impossible to detect where
folk song ends and Duarte begins. The
work as a whole has immediate appeal
but any duo contemplating its inclusion in
a recital programme need not fear that
the quality is in any way inferior.
The printed layout of the music does
not allow for page turns in performance
and duos must find their own solution to
this problem. Having played this Suite
from a manuscript copy in concerts and
recordings since April 1980, together
with John Mills, I found the printed
fingering (supplied by Evangelos and
Liza) seemed foreign to me. This, of
course, does not make it ineffective but I
found it unimaginative and did not find i
helpful.
The Foreword, as with all Duarte edi-
tions, is clear, concise and informative.
Raymond Burley
PETIT NOCTURNE for guitar solo by
Stepim Rak.
Helsinki/Chorus Publications. £1.25.
Ashley Mark Publishing Company,
Gateshead NE8 3AJ
Stepiln Rak is a very resourceful guitarist
a nd c o m p o s e r who live s in
Czechoslovakia but lived and worked for
some time in Jyviiskylii (Finland); his
most eloquent advocate is Vladimir
Mikulka, to whom this piece is dedicated.
The Petit Nocturne, despite its spicing
with diatonic dissonances, is an agreeably
sentimental A lbumblatt whose melody
overcomes passing harmonic nudges in
other, 'flatter' directions. Hardly long
enough to stand alone in a concert
programme, its two pages are a little
harder to play than its mainly clean
appearance suggests (about Grade VII,
I'd say) but they would make an accept
able change for players (and audiences)
not yet ready for what the 20th century
has brought. A barre given at III instead
of (page 1, system 3, bar 1) is the only
printing error I have detected.
John Duarte
THREE EQU L THOUGHTS fur
guitar solo by Kari Karjalainen.
Helsinki/Chrous Publications. £1.25.
Ashley Mark Publishing Company,
Gateshead NE8 3AJ
A ternary structure (largo, allegro, largo)
frames a somewhat austere work in free-
atonal language; the complete unfolding
of the note-row ends with the first note of
bar six but not before six repetitions have
36
intervened. The piece is pervaded by a
three-note cell, appearing at various
levels, with variations of its pitch-profile
and many rhythmic transformations. Its
avoidance of 'tonal' patterns of rhythm,
though not via serialization, calls for
careful counting and much slow practice.
The two pages of music need about four
minutes to play and to describe the
required technical level as not higher than
Grade VII is in insu
suff
ffic
icie
ient
nt - a far
far mor
moree
developed grasp of music is needed than
that rating usually implies. This is a study
piece rather than concert material.
Imprint is needle-sharp but fingering,
often mildly cryptic, is shown in hair-line
figures that are not always as clearly
visible as they might be.
John Duarte
PIERROT for two guitars by Gilbert
Biberian
London/Chester 55158
To keep Colombine company, what could
be more fitting than a substantial Perrot,
with Harlequin soon to complete the
trilogy? It's not simply a matter of instru
ment
me ntal
al wei
weigh
ghtt - heherr 600
600 bars
bars (ca)
(ca) ar
aree
topped by 879, two lengthy works
his standard. It is the whole,
any reasonable by
rather than the component parts, which is
long; Biberian describes the work as: 'A
collection of short, study-like pieces
bound together organically in order to
make a large-scale composition. The
structure is very simple: Prelude; Theme
(Au Clair de la Lune Mon mi Pierrot)
and six variations; Cadenza; Waltz; Link
passage recalling the Prelude; Round
Dance; Postlude'. Those dependent on
the good old-fashioned crutch of tonality
will fmd little to cling to; and what little
there is soon becomes a tantalizing
chimera. Two variations confirm their
bitonality by employing different key
signatures for the two parts, though
bitonality arrives elsewhere without
benefit of advertisement. in his foreword
Biberian says that the piece should be
well within the grasp of students who
have played for three or four years,
having learnt the studies of Carulli, Sor,
Aguado and Carcassi. Technically speak
ing this is true, though a little more must
be added to offset the difficulty of playing
such duo music, but those brought up on
such a utilitarian diet will suffer severe
culture shock! If this seems to be spelling
out a deterrent, it is not No feat of
virtuosity is required in either part (most
of the activi
activity
ty is within the first seven
frets), successive changes of metre and
timing problems will yield to careful
counting, and what may at first sound
offensive will become piquant if goodwill
persists; even such delicacies as caviare,
olives and escargots seldom appeal to
unsophisticated taste-buds and it takes
time to learn to love dry wines. The
avoidance of such aural challenge helps
to keep the guitar in the retarded state in
which unrelieved exposure to the early
19th century all too easily leaves it. Try
this, persevere with it and reap your
rewards.
As with Colombine there are move-
ments that invite (virtually compel) free
dance or mime and others which sustain a
constant metre and permit a more formal
treatment. The two works, indeed the
trilogy when completed, are designed to
be performed successively, in one large
scale enterprise of music and movement,
occupying dimensions that are new to the
realm of guitar music. To bring it to
reality demands more, however, than the
Old Brigade, singing its Old Songs, is
likely to offer at the moment. More's the
pity.
John Duarte
FINGERSTYLE GUIT R 
FURTHER STEPS by Doug Kennedy.
pp 48.
Punchbowl Music. £2.95.
Seeing a guitarist on the front cover
apparently playing his instrument while
resting it on someone else's knee, I felt
uneasy about this book before even
opening it. Reading that here was yet
another attempt to 'bridge the Great
Classical/Folk/Rock Divide' did nothing
to dispel my fears.
Why does an author attempt this
daunting task when it is obvious to most
that the objective is not attainable in a
book o f this size, and is probably
unnecessary anyhow? Most musicians,
guitarists included, are quite capable of
bridging gaps if that is what they really
desire. Is there really a Great Divide? At
classical guitar Summer schools I never
cease to be amazed at the wide variety of
(musical) activities that take place after
the beer has started to flow in the evening.
The choice is ou
ours
rs - cl
clas
assi
sica
cal,
l, folk, jazz,
flamenco, blues. We can be as br broa
oad-
d- or
as narrow-minded as we choose; no-one
needs to be wooed with empty promises
that, for £2.95, we can have all, or at least
some, of our musical desires satisfied.
The present book is a hotch-potch o f folk,
folk,
classical, ragtime and blues, with an
occasional page of 'theory' thrown in.
As a folk-song repertoire book it
rather overdoes things: having described
four different 'clawhammer' techniques
(for nail players?) the author needs only
to give melody line, words and chord
symbols for the reader to have fun with
Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, Ralph McTell
and the other numbers included. The
essence of folk music is individual
interpretation, but Kennedy gives his
own, rather ordinary accompaniments in
full, in staff notation and in tablature.
Most of the songs are set too high for the
aver
av eragagee voi
voice
ce - I can't rereach
ach so many
high Gs, even after opening time.
In the 'classical' solos he gives too
little, apart from the fact that the chosen
pieces are readily available n better
prin
pr intted ededit
itiion
onss - yes,
ye s, th
thee Spanish
Ballad is here? The negligible help with

technique or interpretation appears in the
general scheme of things much as a home
decorator ft s in cracks in the plaster and
woodwork.
It is difficult to believe that pupils
learn happily by this 'whim and fancy'
method; on page 25, for example, the
author has a whim to give some helpful
information on minor scales, but you
have to turn a good 15 pages either way
before meeting any minor-key music.
'Followed from page to page, this book
plots a gradual logical course', the
introduction states: on page 31 we learn
that 'When two or more notes are played
together, this is called a CHORD' 
Basic chord progressions are dealt with
on page 3 and barre chords on page 22.
Some information is misleading and some
downright incorrect: A major triad con
sists of TONIC, major 3rd and perfect
5th', the misuse of 'tonic' (instead of
'root') continues for a whole page - no
misprint here.
The illustrations, some of
o f the poorest
I've seen, simply add to ones general
apprehension regarding what seems to be
a hastily assembled book. I t is unlikely to
cause any real damage to potential
guitarists but certainly does nothing
worthwhile.
Frances Gray
FANT ASIAS AMAZONICAS for
guitar solo by Francis Schwarz
Editions Musicales Transatlantiques
(U.M.P.) £1.57
The titles of the various sections 
Totem, Mystery canoe and The bat cave
are certainly evocative of the Amazonian
jungle, as are the trilingual passages from
an unidentified travel book attached to
them. They are three quite effective little
free-style pieces: Totem uses tambora
effects to create a sinister sound from an
unusual chord; the second piece, using
'fmgernail rasps' on the bass strings, is
less successful. The bat cave is perhaps
the best movement, with eerie trills,
chromatic slides and slurs to paint its
picture. The signs and symbols are
explained. Pleasant amusement for a
player of Grade 5 (or better) but, for a
mere three pages, distinctly pricey.
Neil Smith
PLEIN CIEL for guitar solo by Marc
Bleuse
Editions Choudens (U.M.P.) £2.90
Dedicated to Alexandre Lagoya, this is a
modern, free-style work, straight
forwardly written without 'special effects'.
The tritone, with which it opens, plays an
important role and the rhythmically
attractive opening phrase recurs fre-
quently, giving the work a measure of
unity. A player at or above Grade 7,
looking
piece and for 'ina tune'
forceful single-movement
with the music of
Stephen
Step hen Dodgson, might find this
interesting; there are 7 pages of music.
MORGONRODNAD for flute and
guitar by Jack Mattesson
Helsinki/Chorus Publications. £1.50.
Ashley Mark Publishing Company,
Gateshead NE8 3AJ
The title means 'morning blush' (dawn)
but its red sky holds no warning for
sailors, shepherds, flautists or guitarists.
The flute (or violin, a piacere) sings a
simple, sustained melody above arpeggios
that ripple from start to fmish. A third
stave gives the bass line alone, for use by
a cellist who, in the interests of not
obscuring the guitar, would do well to
consider
The using
music a nicely
is firmly t o nrounded pizzicato.
a l - home-base is
G major, its harmonic surprises being
gentle and easily fmgered (comfortably
within Grade Ill-IV); one might
paraphrase Thomas Morley by saying
that 'no extraordinary motions are used
in the playing of it'. >Total absence of
tempo or dynamic markings leaves the
field open for the imagination to move in.
With a mere 42 bars (including a repeat
of 16) it is too brief for a concert piece
but it might make a pleasant little encore
item.
John Duarte
COLOMBINE (SUITE) for solo guitar
by Gilbert Biberian
London/Chester 55260
Even more economically than those
baroque composers who rewrote some of
their works for different media and
purposes, Biberian suggests varied uses to
which this one work, Colombine, may be
put - as music for pleasure or study
like most worthwhile music may be
treated) and as accompaniment to perfor
mances of ballet or mime. He suggests
also that shorter suites may be 'con
structed' from selections from its eight
movements, as was the case with many
baroque suites. Though the music is by
no means baroque there are thematic and
motivic atTmities among the movements,
giving them a feeling of unity - shared
by many suites of Bach, Handel et al. To
reinforot"the study aspect there are notes
defming the main points of musical
and/or technical interest in each move-
ment, though one might reasonably
expect many students to be both familiar
with and proficient in these after three
years or more, the level of player to which
the work is addressed. The music is not
difficult to play, though not quite as easy
as its clean appearance suggests, and it is
both gratefully guitaristic and attractive;
much of the difficulty resides in negotiat
ing the changes of time and tempo in
some
so me momoveveme
ment
ntss - reco
recour
urce
ce to a
metronome is advisable in the pre
paratory stage. The same changes, some
times approaching the kaleidoscopic in
pace and mood, enhance the suitability of
the music
mime, as a substrate
inviting matching for free balletand
movements or
gesturess rather than the classic framing
gesture framing of
dance steps within a steady pulse
maintained over long periods. However,
setting aside such ancilliary purposes, this
is most enjoyable guitar music, clean-cut
and, though deploying compatible idioms
the 19th-century would not have
welcomed, never abstruse or gratuitously
intellectual. Fingering is comprehensive,
with few unavoidable awkwardnesses
imprint is clear, spacing is generous,
without overcrowding and, horizontally,
roughly proportional to note durations.
PIECES FOR POLITA for guitar by
Richard Stoker, ed. John Duarte
London/Ricordi LD678. £3.50
FIFTEEN MINUTES for guitar by
Colin Head, ed. John Duarte.
London/Ricordi LD667. £3.50
GREAT BAROQUE ARIAS for voice
and guitar, arr. John Gavall.
London/Ricordi LD660. £4.00
Richard Stoker's contribution to the
repertoire at recital level is by now well
esteemed for both quality and quantity.
Here in six 'moderately easy pieces',
written for Polita Estarellas (spelt
incorrectly in the Foreword ) Mr Stoker
provides playable, idiomatic music for the
competent guitarist. The pieces here are
middle of the road in vocabulary and
technical requirements, yet lyrical and
shapely. They
material will piece
as each prove isideal teaching
reasonably
concise and digestible in the space of a
week for even the more indolent type of
student. Teenagers may find these a
useful introduction to contemporary
musical patterns without being put off by
a surfeit of atonality.
Colin Hand's fifteen pieces are easier
still, and once again fulfil a real need for
contemporary material. Teachers and
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compendium of approaches in terms of
styles, techniques and musical forms.
Some of the pieces in John Gavall's
latest offerings such as Bist du bei mir of
J. S. Bach and Handel's Laschia ch io
pianga appeared in quite different
arrangements in another book of his
published in 1959. Words of translations
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to considerable revision. A most useful
book, albeit somewhat expensive.
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REVIEWS
F. S O ~ Fantasie Op 54; GUIDO
SANTORSOLA: Sonata a duo; JOHN
DUARTE: Variations on a French
nursery song Op 32; PIERRE PETIT:
Toccata.
Lars Karlsson, Michael Ljung (guitars)
Opus 3 8201
Karlsson guitarists
Swedish and Ljung are two
who began young
playing in
duo in 1977 under the name Duodecima
and this is their first recording. The extent
to which playing standards have risen in
the last two decades is shown in the
current work of duos no less than soloists
since, as with the great duos of the past,
many are composed of players of out
standing solo ability; the duo medium is
no longer simply a refuge for those who
could not have made it individually.
Shortly before her death, Ida Presti told
me that the above two works by Petit and
myself were the most difficult the Presti
Lagoya duo had in its repertoire; indeed,
after her death I was convinced that my
own work would die also because no-one
else would be able to play it. The conclu
sion was
sion was mist
mistak
aken
en - seve
severa
rall per
perfo
for
r
mances in concert were given by a few
duos th at came into being
being in the following
few years. Then, in the late 70s, the piece
was recorded by the Frankfurter Gitarren
Duo with remarkable virtuosity but in a
strange acoustic that left something to be
desired. Now, to my even greater surprise
(the Frankfurter Duo celebrated the 10th
year of its establishment in 1981) it has
been recorded again, this time without the
cuts made in the 4th Variation and the
Finale by the Frankfurt players, and
adhering precisely to the published score.
Other than in the making of some
unmarked ral/entandi and pauses, and a
few uneasy tempo transitions, I fmd this a
magnificent performance of a work that
demands the utmost virtuosity.
Petit's Toccata a pert and bustling
piece with jazz overtones in its episodes,
is one of the most immediately attractive
pieces in the duo repertory, previously
obtainable only from Presti-Lagoya on a
long-deleted disc. Duodecima have not
modelled their view of it on that earlier
recording but have found their own,
equally winsome approach - in the
episodes, that of a younger generation to
which jazz is a more 'natural' language,
and they despatch it with no less
virtuosity. The Fantasie of Sor is the only
item available in another recording, by
Bream and Williams (RCA RL03090),
and it must be said that Duodecima
match their more famous counterparts
every step of the way in sensitivity,
flexibility and quality of sound and, with
the natural advantage of constant
working as a duo rather than an
occasional
oc casional encounters, achieve a higher
le vel of 'togetherness' in everything from
mll ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ r e
timing to unanimity in articulation.
Though Santorsola wears a variety of
musical hats in his guitar (and other)
works his most familiar language is that
of 12-note writing in which rhythm is not
serialized and the note-row itself is very
freely treated. 'Everyman', even today
when
tends the technique
to regard is halfwriting
12-note a century old,
as dry,
tuneless (it all depends what you regard
as a tune ) a nd g e n e r a l l y
incomprehensible; so it Can be, even in
Santorsola's hands, but the Sonata a duo
is a very accessible work, here played
with the expressive freedom and propul
sive energy usually and easily applied to
more familiar musics.
Duodecima play with a good range
of clear tone, a high degree of unimity
and precision, and sensitive (if somewhat
'unromantic') expressiveness; the record
ing is pristine and well balanced. On all
counts.. this is one of the most remarkable
counts
guitar-duo records to be issued since the
demise of Presti-Lagoya, a required
possession for all guitarists who are not
guided solely by Famous Names and
well-worn music.
John Duarte
Address of Opus 3 records: Box 2024, S-
691 02 Karlskoga, Sweden.
COUPERIN: e Tombeau de M.
Blancrocher. McGUIRE: Suite No 2 in
Popular Style. BIBERIAN: Monogram.
PONCE: Variations and Fugue on a
Folia de Espaiia.
John Holmquist (guitar)
Cavata CV5001
John Holmquist's performance of the
Ponce work earned him a standing
ovation and the first prize by a
unanimous decision in the Guitar '78
Toronto International Competition. He
has now recorded it, and it rightly forms
the main substance of this, his debut
recording. At his Wigmore Hall recital
some longish tuning intervals between the
variations tended to destroy cohesion;
here all such difficulties are overcome,
and the work is presented as one full and
flowing entity.
From the darkly intense statement of
the theme and the crisply buoyant
rhythms of the frrst variation, through to
the fmal fugue in which the player's
measured solemnity imparts a rare
grandeur, we are taken through an
astonishing variety of music. These
brilliant pieces, some of them lasting only
a few seconds, explore and test every
aspect of guitar technique. Everyone of
the 20 variations provides some kind of
musical interest. Marred only by a slight
tendency to occasional over-emphasis,
this is a performance well able to stand
beside its predecessors.
o r d s
As in Pere-Lachaise Cemetery, one
can scarcely move in French music
without stumbling over a tombeau or
'tombstone'. These musical tributes from
the living to the dead are usually short,
frequently sincere, occasionally dull and
from time to time intensely moving. Louis
Couperin's is tragic and eloquent, and
Holmquist makes the most of it Mr
Blancrocher had no fewer than three
tombeaux written for him, which must be
some sort of compensation for an
untimely end caused through getting
drunk and falling downstairs in 1652.
James McGuire's Suite No. 2 is
dedi cat ed to Holmquist. t is
unpretentious, straightforward, tuneful
and not too hard for most of us to play.
The performance here will make a
number of new friends and gladden the
heart of its composer. As will the perfor
mance of the following work, Gilbert
Biberian's Monogram. Once described by
your reviewer as engimatic, it is gradually
revealing its mysteries. This performance
strips away more veils What will remain
when is laid
Hunt'sallThe is not, like Oliver
bare?o fItBaghdad
Barber directly
inspired by the East, but a contemporary
Western work that uses the conventions
of spatial development that characterise
much Eastern music. In case that sounds
too much' like an entry in 'Pseuds'
Corner', Biberian's own words should
make matters clearer . Talking about a
performance by a Turkish musician on
the ancient keman (a kind of fiddle) he
says Everything wouldwould jus justt float in the
air, full of anticipation for the next
phrase. There is ... development of the
sense of space, a lack of hurriedness'.
Everything, in short, must take its time
- and th th at goes for the listener too. It is
at go
also, again in the words of the composer,
a work about the sound of the guitar
itself.
The Middle Eastern resonances are
well brought out in Holmquist s
meticulous observance of the often
complex playing instructions. The har
monics at the end could have been give a
little more plangency (perhaps, to be
realistic, by the engineers). There is also
some fmgerboard squeak, nothing new in
guitar recordings. The sound is clear and
spacious without being over-resonant.
John Holmquist's stimulating blend of
vigour, sensitivity and musical penetra
tion make this an impressive debut.
Colin Cooper
CLASSICAL GUITAR
BY
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39

RENAISSANCE AND BAROQUE
MUSIC FOR TWO GUITARS. d manuscript) and easy enough to play
Flower, David McLellan (guitars).
ANON: La Rossignol, Greensleeves,
Drewries Accords, My Lady Careys
Dompe,, Lesson; JOHN JOHN SON: The
Dompe
Flatt Pavin; JOHN DOWLAND: My
Lord Chamberlains Galliard, Tarletons
Riserrection, My Lord Willoughbys
Welcome Home; FRANCIS PILK
INGTON: Echo; LE SAGE DE
RICHEE: Echo; J. S. BACH: Musette,
Menuet, Prelude, Fugue, Invention; C. P.
E. BACH: Marche, Polonaise;
WILLIAM LA WES: Suite; G. P.
TELEMANN: Canon.
Music Minus One MMO 5043 £6.99
(including score)
CLASSICAL AND ROMANTIC
MUSIC FOR TWO GUITARS. Ed
Flower, David McLellan (guitars).
F. SOR: Andantino, Marche, Duo in A,
Andante, Allegretto; F. CARULLI:
Study in A, Duo in E, Largo, Allegretto,
Duo in F, Rondo; C. G. SCHEIDLER:
Romanze; G. FAURE: Sicilienne;
JORGE ANCKERMAN: El Arroyo que
Murmura; E. GRANADOS: Spanish
Dances 2 and 5; I ALBENIZ:
Malaguena.
Music Minus One MMO 5044 £6.99
(including score)
The music-minus-one device must be
close to celebrating its 50th birthday and
it is perhaps surprising that it has not
been more fully exploi
exploited.
ted. One of its valu
able applications is that of giving
guitarists the opportunity to break out of
solitary confmement by playing with
unseen partners, widening experience and
developing discipline. These recordings
were made by a split stereo process, the
two players being in aural but not visual
contact (resulting in a certain lack of
'togetherness' in a few of the slower
items), so that either part may be isolated
by turning the stereo-balance knob hard
to the left or right;
right; that is the principle but
the fact is that 'cross-talk' prevents total
separation and the ghost of the
suppressed part cannot be e x o r i z e d ~ I f
this results in less than a whole loaloaff it still
leaves enough to be well worth the eating.
The track given to tuning (confus
ingly, not mentioned on the sleeve) which
begins each disc is invaluable, for reasons
too numerous to mention. Each item is
preceded by an appropriate number of
ticks of a metronome, defined in the
printed scores accompanying the discs;
the metronome settings are useful only in
establishing target speeds in practicing,
before playing with the record. If the
performances sound somewhat stiffer
than one would hope to hear in concert
this is natural, given the circumstances of
the recording process, and more
appropriate to the purpose of the
enterprise.
inexperienced)- guitarists
to enable (mainly
to develop the
necessary discipline rather than to learn
to follow particular 'bendings' of the
written text.
The music in the booklets is crisply
40
reproduced (photographed, hand-written
from once one become accustomed to its
somewhat spidery appearance; redundant
fingering directives are unhelpful in this
connection.
connecti on. If much of it is inevitably pre
dictable the music in the
renaissance/baroque book is quite well
chosen but the ancillary notes are brief,
not always particularly informative or
well-informed: a ground is not necessarily
a chord progression, the anonymous
Dompe, 'probably played on the virginals'
virginals'
is in fact one of the earliest known
examples of idiomatic writing for that ins-
trument, the Telemann Canon is for two
'equal'
'equ al' instr
instrume
uments
nts - of whi
which
ch viol
violin
inss or
flutes would be apt examples, and last
three pieces by J. S. Bach are inade
quately identified. Tempos are well
judged in performances, though the
Dompe is usually ta.ken a fraction faster
by keyboard players, and the renaissance
items are welcomely free from left-hand
slurs; some fmgerings· are made that bit
harder by dogged adherence to guitar
tuning (3rd string at G). On page three of
the booklet it states that 'all but one' of
the pieces on the 'renaissance' side were
written for two lutes; the Dompe is a key-
board work and Tarletons Risserection is
a perfectly easy lute solo. The Suite by
Lawes is the one published by Bream
(Faber
here inediti
edition)
A on) in 1967
major but it is
(versus presented
Bream's D The fright,
major), in which key it is rather easier to
handle. The baroque music is well
arranged except for the Prelude, in which
octave-compression leads to some
undesirable part-crossings and one nasty
accident at the beginning of bar 5 (page
24). The attentive user will find the slurs
indicated in some baroque pieces to be
only the majority (not the whole) of what
is actually played on the recording.
Likewise he/she will be well advised to
follow the recording of Greensleeves
rather than the score where, in bar 8, the
correct rhythm is played and the wrong
one printed.
The music of the classical/romantic
volume is of more variable quality, with
an overlarge ration of Sor, Carulli and
Scheidler, much of it inocuous time
passi
pas sing
ng - and uniduniden
enti
tifi
fied
ed,, rescu
rescued
ed by
by
rather better music in the later period.
Sor's birth date (1778) is given as 1776 in
the notes, from which we learn also of a
hitherto unknown accomplishment of
Granados: ' ... besides compositing (sic)
was a virtuoso pianist'. In the score of the
Malagueiia it is impossible to play bar 21
(page 36) as it is printed, and if you want
to stay with the performers you had
better cross out bars 11-14 on page 37.
To round off your orientation, of the two
Spanish dances of Granados No. 2 prece
des No. 5 in the book but they appear the
other way round on the record. Perfor
mances of the Spanish music are more
mechanical
wish, but andtoo bloodless than onenot
much should would
be
expected in such a context and all but the
most adaptable players will have some
difficulty in keeping in touch with the
comings and goings of tempo in Spanish
Dance No. 5 as it is, some of them not
marked on the score.
The playing is clean and workman
like, the recording is the same. To those
inexperienced in the discipline and
pleasure of duo playing these recordings
may be recommended. Though one might
describe the difficulty of the separate
parts as falling within a maximum of
Grade Six it would be misleading to use
this as a guideline; if one is unused to
playing in duo the experience can easily
knock ones rating a notch or two lower.
John Duarte
RAY SEALEY: Platero (An eleg elegyy fo r
two young guitarists and narrator)
Ray Sealey (narrator), Karen Chapman,
Andrea Hayman (guitars)
Hyperion A66046. £4.99
Ray Sealey's declared object is to provide
a work that is in line with both the
spiritual and technical levels of young
players, and he achieves it signally. His
texts are taken from Jimenez' Platero y
yo, in excellent English translations by
Willia
Wil liam
m and Mary Roberts, narrated
narrate d with
clear enunciation and without trace of
either the exaggerated emphases of an
adult telling stories to children or Sealey's
Canadian nationality. The 12 items:
Platero, Nursery school, Angelus
(Sunset), The canary escapes, Sunday,
nival, Interlude
The canary dies,and lullaby, Car-
Donkeyography,
The thorn and Nostalgia, are framed in
charming music, simple in language but
atmospheric in effect, using dissonance as
an expressive, not an intellectual, device.
Economy, directness and simplicity
without triteness are characteristic of
Sealey's writing in those works I have
heard.
The work's subtitle is fulfilled, the
guitarists being 14 and 12 years old.
Though their familiarity with the music is
to be assumed, since they are Sealey's
students and the work is dedicated to
them, their clear-bright tone, firm attack,
precise timing and control are impressive;
youth per se holds at bay the fear of
microphones that can develop later. The
recording could hardly be bettered. This
is a delightfully imaginative work and a
valuable addition to the guitar s
Platerography, far more accessible than
the settings by Castelnuovo-Tedesco and
Eduardo Sain
Sainzz de la Maza, and in no way
competitive with them. f and when the
score is published it should succeed in a
big wa
wayy wit
with
h enter
enterpri
prisin
singg teach
teachers
ers - or
enterprising young people who may guide
their teachers in its direction. It comes
like a breath of fresh air.
John Duarte
DEDICATION. Julian Bream
RCA Red Seal RL25419
When Julian Bream offers a recording to
the public it is always a significant event,
of
the musical
Stoppard or equivalent a new play
a novel by Fowles. Thatby
it
seems necessary to say this may be an
adequate commentary on the pre
dominance of the commercial over the
artistic in the policy of many recording

companies and their attendant artists.
The ever-simmering pot-boilers are more
characteristic of new guitar records these
days than are those albums which cause
us to revaluate our notions about the
guitar and its directions.
That Julian Bream has been for
many years liberated from the com
mercial
merci al pressures that grin
grindd other players
into pre-formed moulds may be a truism.
t would be better to put it the other way
round and afTtrm Bream's determination
to offer a positive artistic lead, not to be
swept along on the prevailing commercial
tides and certainly not to be blown off-
course. in
the fiftiesall were
lateAfter Bream's
not early recordshot
considered
property by his recording companies at
the outset. Neither could his forays to the
Wigmore Hall with lute in hand ready for
an evening of Dowland be judged at that
time as the stuff from which fortunes
might later be made, even if every ticket
was sold.
Bream's essential seriousness, the
total integrity that informs his playing, is
a special tonic in our age of compromise.
Whilst a number of players have jumped
on other band-wagons, for financial gain
but artistic loss, Bream has continued to
explore, to evolve and to reveal. From his
first recording to his most recent the
journey has been exhilerating and, in
retrospect, not arbitrary. Bream s
personal development through a mul-
titude of phases, involving technique,
choice of repertoire and even of instru
ment, has been at one with the progress of
the guitar itself. Following Segovia's
similar but earlier creation of a congenial
repertoire, Bream has done more than
any other artist to shape and direct the
guitar's destiny.
In terms of contemporary repertoire
the process has been subtle and inclusive.
From the first recital offerings of works
such as the Sonatina by Berkeley, Smith
Brindle's El Polifemo de Oro and Drei
Tentos by Henze (between 1958 and the
early 1960s), Bream moved inexorably
toward the unveiling of Britten s
Nocturnal, Walton's Bagatelles, and
Berkeley's Theme and Variations. After
dozens of concerts in which these pieces
were well received by the public, the
landmark was ratified by the issue of an
appropriate recording. Bream's record
ings emerge only when he fmds it possible
to present the work with the fullest
ex perience and authority.
The significant steps can, for the
interested listener, be charted from The
A rt o f Julian Bream (1958) to 20th
Century Guitar (1967), and from Julian
ream 70s (1973) to this new recording
just issued. Each of o f these recordings
ex plored new areas of guitar sonorities
and the latest can only be properly
un derstood against this background of
dev elopment of the repertoire.
To commemorate Walton's 80th
birt
birthday,
rarehday, Bream
for him, allows something
a re-recording fairly
of one of the
contemporary
conte mporary masterpieces. The Five
Bagatelles
Ba gatelles (1971) gain considerably from
thiss digital recording, and avid students of
thi
interpretation will gain much from com
paring how Bream's playing of these
pieces has changed in just under a
decade; the first recording in 1973 was
rem
remar
arka
kabl
blee - this onone is better still.
Certain note-values have been suitably
amended, the range of tone-colour is
broader and yet more dazzling.
R ich ar d R o d n e y B e n n e t t s
Impromptus (1968) at last find their way
onto a record. These works, so often
trotted out in recitals by inferior perfor
mers and occasionally set for students in
diploma examinations, can be suffocat
ingly tedious in the wrong hnds. Bream
here of
ling touches
magiceach
andphrase with aand
conviction sprink
the
potentially arid sparseness of the
atonality is shaped into meaning. One
could hardly imagine a better perfor
mance of these 'unlovable' compositional
sketches.
Hill Runes (1981) by Peter Maxwell
Davies evokes the Orkney landscape. t is
an esoteric, introverted composition,
perhaps more appropriate to Maxwell
Davies' states of mind than to specific
impressionistic images of Scottish barren
ness. This is a work whose absorption
into the nervous system, let alone the
blood stream, could take time. At this
point the composer's intensely private
world, united with our ears through
Bream's masterly playing albeit, can be
entered only with due permission and a
certain interval of knocking at the portal.
As yet its ultimate coherence has eluded
me and, like a number o f lunar rocks, the
cound clusters lie distinctly in the ear
without total integration into a musical
statement. However if the work does not
in the end grow into unity, it is certainly
not the fault of Maestro Bream.
If Hill Runes provide something
something o f a
sticking point where good solid resistance
is encountered in the teeth of something
entirely new, then Henze's Royal Winter
M u si c ( 1 9 7 6 ) , A S o n a t a on
Shakespearean Characters' may provoke
outright mutiny. Purchase
Purcha se of
o f the score
from Schott Ltd (£4.50) may help to
elucidate quite a few of the immediate
problems. I have already heard this work
acclaimed as a masterpiece by one Henze
fan (though unaware that the music was
published) and a composer of my
acquaintance found the whole thing a
colossal bore when Bream premiered the
work at the Wigmore Hall. have also
endured a mediocre performance by a
recitalist, of two or three sections of the
work, no doubt to baffle us by science.
The characters depicted in this
sonata include Gloucester, Romeo and
Juliet, Ariei, Ophelia, Touchstone,
Audrey and William, and Oberon. Henze
tries to seek out in this work the 'many
unexplored spaces and depths' of the
guitar. But the Shakespearean context of
the composition will not necessarily help
the listener. Henze s response to
the Germanis tradition
Shakespeare at its best intellectual
rather than in
emotional in the traditions of Stratford.
The characterisation of each movement is
an elaborate peg on which to hang
sustained workings out of very complex
and very inward musical labyrinths.
The future of this work is fairly
problematical. I hear that it has already
been prescribed for a Guitar Competition,
a report I would prefer to disbelieve. In
Bream's hands the Royal Winte
Winterr Music is
a magnificent challenging entity, a monu
ment to something of musical substance
attempted through the guitar with its
whole range of timbres, moods and
echoes; in performances by lesser mortals
this piece could quickly empty the
theatre. Attempts to impress the average
audience by hitting it over the head with a
awork of this
charge specificand
of assault, density
I do could leadtoo
hope not to
many younger players try to prove their
intellectual virility by wheeling this one
out too often. Such a work, like
Beethoven's Hammerklavier Sonata,
does demand rather more than technique;
it asks for a commitment that very few
have to offer. Anything less than the best
simply will not do for this kind of work.
But here we have the best and Bream
enables us to quarrel with the music
creatively. His playing is a total tour de
force and one of the finest performances
he has ever put on record. Where Bream
goes from here, or whether he slips back
into consolidation, is anyone's guess. I
would imagine that for Bream, as always,
the road points forward and uphill to
fresh summits. At certain points the air
may be quite rarified, but it will be an en
thralling expedition.
Graham Wade
SARABANDE Gregg Nestor
Spartan Records SALP 001
Gregg Nestor was pne of the semi
finalists in the 1981 Segov
Segovia
ia International
Competition and is establishing a reputa
tion as both a virtuoso performer and a
prolific arranger.
This recording is perhaps a rather
strange way to begin a career which
surely will produce many worthwhile
albums. The programme ranges from
Grieg's Sarabande Op. 40, No 2, to
Sondheim's Send in the Clowns, and
includes such rarities as Seventy-Six
Trombones, Singin in the Rain, Berlin's
suite Annie Get Your Gun, and Gra
inger's Country Gardens and Shepherd s
Hey.
The playing of this material is not
what you might expect; it is actually
virtuosic, ebullient and extremely
accomplished. The music is delivered with
that mixture of exuberance and discipline
which characterises Gregg Nestor on the
concert platform. Normally such a menu
could indicate a flight from reality or a
desire to please by concentration on the
trivial; in fact the playing has such
integrity and commitment, and is so well
arranged for the guitar, that the record
ing, though lighthearted, is actually
delivered in a most professional and
serious manner.
qualities The album
of spontaneity has all the
and originality,
rare virtues in the hothouse conditions of
the contemporary guitar scene.
Graham Wade
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R   VI WS
John Mills
JOHN MILLS
Purcell Room, London. 5 June 1982.
In launching the five-recital series Music
Jor Guitar, organized by the BBC in
collaboration with the GLC, John Mills
watchword was value for mon ey ; his
last exit to the green room came 2 hr
1 min after his first entrance, the two
events separated by numerous views of
the old
old and new face s of Mills. He has in
the past been firmly linked to the
romantic image of Segovia, not least in
his pursuit of tonal beauty, but a harder,
post-romantic element has recently
entered his programming and playing
approaches. In a programme that was
part of a declared
declared International Festival
of Light Music
Music there was naturally a
liberal supply of traditional Mills music
by Sor, Ponce, Villa-Lobos et ai,
despatched with his customary charm,
eloq
eloqueuenc
ncee and
and vibr
vibrat
ato
o - ththee last
last not
always applied logically viz. as an orna
ment, but doubtless relished by those who
have tried (and failed) to emulate its
opulence. To enumerate the items would
be to retravel familiar ground; to describe
the excellences of their perfomance woul
wouldd
be superfluous, for he is a master of
musical seduction and this kind of music
is his mistress.
The new face is not without effect
on the old for there is an almost aggres
sivee strength in Mills
siv Mills appr oach to some
items o f his established repertoire,
notably the minuet of Sor that must have
been astonished to find itself attacked
with such vigour. The gentler end of the
new territory was inhabited by a clean
cut, four-movement onatina (of
undeclared provenance) by Haydn,
arranged and delivered with excellent
style and mod
mod eration by Mills. t was in
Reginald Smith-Brindle s Sonata No. 4
La Breve and Brouwer s Canticum that
42
Mills moved Jorward onto ground on
which he would, not long ago, not have
been found. t was not tha t they were well
played (Mills seldom comes close to
doing less) but that they were delivered
with such intensity and conviCtion. Life,
like its musical reflection, is not all beauti
ful nor does beauty always equate to
sentimentality; when one comes to
accept, and learns to handle, this situa
tion, new doors are opened and entered
with confidence. t is a watershed Mills
has crossed in recent times and in the
crossing his
his sta ture has grown
grown.. That is no
light musical matter.
John Duarte
Costas Cotsiolis
COST AS COTSIOLIS
Purcell Room, London. 19 June 1982.
t was as a juror that I first heard Costas
Cotsiolis in 1973 (and again in 1974) as a
formidable competitor in the Concorso
Internazionale di Chitarra (Alessandria)
and I had not had the opportunity to
repeat the experience since then. During
the intervening years he has acquired a
considerable reputation in Europe, so it
was particularly interesting to be able to
assess eight years of development at a
stroke .
Perhaps remembering 1974, when
we discussed the work, he opened with
the so-called Fantasia No. 7 of Dowland,
setting a moderate pace and presenting
the voice-leading with clarity; a few
hiccups probably stemmed from memory
lapses, technical strain seeming as prob
able as snow in August. Stephen
Dodgson was present to hear his Fantasy
Divisions and, whilst one cannot speak on
his behalf, it is hard to imagine that he
was less than delighted with the com
manding performance they received.
There is little in this work to help the
player who lacks technical mastery;
Cotsiolis has it n abundance and in the
following item it was to come into its
o n e r t s
own. Guitarists who attempt the Caprice
No. 24 by Paganini usually succeed in
making it sound as difficult as it is 
which, if not accompanied by technical
breakdown, adds to the excitement and
tension; Cotsiolis made it sound easier
than even a violinist would consider it to
be. His opening tempo seemed to invite
disaster, or at least a charge of reckless
driving, but the notes flowed with awe
inspiring freedom, crossing even position
shifts without the slighest trace of
discontinuity. In the face of such all
embracing virtuosity the question of
interpretation became almost irrelevant,
indeed it had little time to get a word in
edgeways. Seldom has the guitar s finger
board been scoured with such con
temptuous ease. With this the programme
climaxed; the three items by Cardoso,
leading to the interval, sounded even
more limp then they would otherwise
have dodone - even in a programme of
light music. The second half was
devoted to six pieces by Albeniz, played
(a few slack moments apart) with con
summate ease but little warmth, the
expressiveness that was certainly present
appeared to be be applied to the music
rather than to spring from the heart.
Cotsiolis has a prodigious technique and
sensitivity but, as I would have written in
1974
19 74 - al albe
beit
it more
more emp
emphat
hatica
ically
lly,, he
he is
inclined to lead with his mind and fmgers;
if he ever manages to involve his heart to
a comparable degree he will conquer the
guitar s musical world.
John Duarte
David Russell
DA VID RUSSELL
Purcell Room, London. 3 July 1982.
When someone mentioned light music to
Sir Henry Wood he said I often wonder
what dark musi
musicc sounds like . Bach s
Chaconne is neither dark nor heavy; but
by no conceivable stretch of the imagina
tion can it be called light. One can only
admire the cheek of whoever it was who
deci
de cide
dedd to incl ud
udee it in a fes tival of li gh
ghtt
music.
In the same prog pro gr a mme we heard

Bernard Steven s version of the folk song
in which various members of an
unfortunate girl s family turn up to see
her hanged, all of them apparently with
their faith in British justice undimmed.
Not exactly Palm Court material; but
what s in a name?
The Bramble Briar is based on The
Briary Bush, in the Sharp collection. The
girl s true lover arrives in the nick of time
with enough gold to purchase her release
(what would Lord Denning say about
that?), so all ends happily. Bernard
Stevens makes an ironic comment on the
modality of much English folk song by
introducing his melody with a major
scale.
Albert Harris is remembered by an
earlier generation as a guitarist before he
went to Hollywood and took to writing
film music. His Variations on a theme y
Handel have been accorded the seal of
respectability in the form of a Segovia
recording. Undoubtedly light music, but a
well-jointed evocation of Handelian style
without Handelian pastiche. David
Russell paid it the compliment of taking it
seriously and making a lot if it. Sir Robert
Feuerstein is a Hungarian-speaking
Rumanian who lives in Canada. His Four
Epithets are couched in the reasonably
universal language of tonality, and are
properly short. Written six months ago,
hey c onta to
tabrasiveness in demonstrate
enough harmonic
the com
poser s awareness of his times, though
not enough to provide a challenge to the
listener. Pleasant, urbane and civilized-
and that is no mean achievement in these
times.
The three pieces by Emilio Pujol,
who died in 1980 at the age of 94, are so
often deemed unplayable that one almost
begins to believe that they are not worth
playing. They may not contain the
profoundest musical thought, but they do
express their composer s devotion to the
music of his native Spain, cloaked in a
fabric of complex guitar technique that
even skilled piers fmd daunting. To object
that the technique obscures the simple
message of Seguidilla Tango and
Guajira is to miss the point. Pujol uses
whatever material he fmds around him in
order to demonstrate his understanding of
the guitar s fmgerboa
fmgerboard.rd. Russe
Russell
ll made
them sound so easy that one wonders
why they are not performed more often.
Coste s Andante and Pol Polonai se is a
onaise
fair example of good, professional 19th
century music. If we are going to have it
at all, let us have it played as it was here;
rom
omantically,
antically, but without any hint of that
sentimental
sen timental desire to linger which
disfigures so much performance of music
fr om this period. Three Scarlatti sonatas
wed, K.14, 202 and 232, in arrange
followed,
follo
mentss by the player. David Russell made
ment
one of these arrangements during a flight
to Greece; it seems a sensible alternative
to the in-flight movie. Scarlatti is not
Bacch and he is not Handel; his music is
Ba
not imbued With the same kind of
humanity,
hum anity, and Russell did not make the
mistake of trying to impose it. We may
talk about Scarlat
Scarlatti
ti s cool wit, but the
point of his music is entirely musical and
difficult to write about in any other way.
Secure phrasing and impeccable techni
que made minor masterpieces out of all
three.
And so to the old warhorse. This is
not the place to resurrect old arguments
about the desirability of turning good
violin music into good guitar music. The
Chaconne from the Violin Partita BWV
1004 will still be played by guitarists
when the last pundit has drawn his last
breath in talking about it. Like Everest, it
is there; and there is more than one way
to climb a mountain. Russell takes a
poetic view, though without mysticism
(no clouds around this peak). A precise
working-out of dynamics helped towards
this clarity. Rumour has it that Mr
Russell was at one time considering a
crescendo lasting over three pages 
evidence of a creative,
creative, approach, at least.
Not often are the arpeggios and scale Jorge Morel
passages executed with such security.
to the bottom of Argentina. Where other
Accuracy plays its part in the overall
impression. South American guitarists like to prove
themselves in Britten and Rawsthorne,
One of David Russell s strengths is
his phrasing. One feels he could present a Mr Morellikes to demonstrate his skill in
phrase in a number of different ways clever arrangements of Gershwin and
without losing cohesion. The effect is an Bernstein. The audience appreciated it all
impression of spontaneity that belies the hugely, even those who had been sur
hard work he, like every other guitarist, prised and delighted by the same pieces at
must put in. Not only you but he appears the Wigmore Hall in 1979. Black is the
colour
colo ur West Side Story Nortena Mis-
to experiencing
be and
time the music
that is one of thefor the first
secrets of ionera - these formed part of the pre
vious programme, as they did of this. The
music-making the textbooks cannot
impart. Clarity, incisiveness, simplicity, printed programme, however, showed a
pow
ower
er - ananyy of th
thes
esee in combinations of substantial difference. Presumably Mr
one, two or even three can carry a recital, Morel wanted to give everybody another
but David Russell can combine all four in generous portion of what they had so
a way that makes him one of the most much enjoyed on the first occasion.
exciting young guitarists on the scene. For all that, Jorge Morel is a superb
Colin Cooper guitarist, and will always be welcome in
London so long as he maintains his
attitude of spirited and joyous celebra
lORGE MOREL tion.
Purcell Room, London. 26 June 1982. Colin Cooper
Tuning problems beset the Argentinian (The choice of programme resulted from a mis
understanding between Jorge Morel and the BBC
guitarist from the outset. There was so
concerning what the latter required, and from the
much activity of the snatch, twist and former s wish not to repeat items from his previous
hope-for-the-best variety that one feared recital in the Riverside Studios in November 1981
for Mr Morel s ability to project his - J . W . D .)
famed virtuosity. Matters
Mat ters wer
weree no t helpe
helped d
by a drastic retuning to E major (or
GLCBBC, as a wag put it for a
Paraguayn dance by Escobar. The effect SU SCRI E OW
was dramatic, but the disturbed guitar
was never properly in tune again. TO
There were unlooked-for benefits in
this approach. In the following piece -
Chopi also by EsEsco
coba
barr - ad
adju
just
stme
mentntss to CLASSICAL
the tuning while harmonics filled the hall
with their silvery radiance actually GUITAR
enhanced the music. Such aleatoric
possibilities might be explored with profit TO NSUR
by adventurous composers. Notwith
standing the player s tempering, this item YOU G T V RY ISSU
contained the best playing of the evening:
d azzl i n g f i n g er w o r k intuitive
musici
musician
ansh
ship
ip,, melo
melodi
dicc stren
strengt
gth
h - Mr
Morel has all the virtues, and here he
managed to get them all together at the S P GE 5 FOR
same time.
S UBSCRIP TI ON FORM
Jorge Morel is surely unsurpassed in
milongas choros bossa novas and every
kind of danza from the tip of Venezuela
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In the meantime we are pleased to
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GR H MW DE
(Correspondence Editor)
I am very happy to hear that a real
classical guitar journal will appear in
England. I wish you great success for the
journal and I will do my best to make it
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th at some good
people are working to spread good infor
mation about our beautiful instrument,
The Guitar.
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in
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Congratulations on the birth of your
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CARLOS BONELL
London
t was good news to hear about Classical
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prehensive and literary aims.
Best of luck
What wonderful news, the birth of the
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is today a great lack - in many guitar
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We lookmagazine
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to the
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wishes for a really great success.
EV ANGELOS LIZA
Athens
Greece
I warmly welcome the birth of Classical
Guitar with my hope that it will carry on
the important work of diffusing informa
tion and contributing to the good fortune
of our instrument all over the world.
RUGGERO CHIESA
Editor '  t Fronimo''
Fronimo
Italy
May I take this opportunity of wishing
Classical Guitar every success with its
official launch and subsequent issues. The
literary, critical and musical abilities of
your editorial staff and contributors will
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achieving an aim which all of us involved
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is to further the interest in what we
believe to be one of the most beautiful of
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JOHN MILLS
Classical Guitar.
TURIBIO SANTOS
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
The demand for a magazine, published in
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classical guitar and its music, has grown
from year to year. Thus, I and my
colleagues in Finland happily welcome
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JUKK SA VIJOKI
Helsinki
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We are guitarists and we love the guitar,
yet the most important thing still to
happen to us is our emancipation in the
musical world. The guitar needs to be
recognised by contemporary composers,
guitarists should mix with other
musicians, new ensembles should be
formed to explore new musical ways, and
so on.
A serious periodical with scholarly
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We wish the team of the Classical
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Delighted to hear the news. I look On hearing the news about the birth of
Over the years I have watched Great forward to reading (and contributing) to Classical Guitar: Ad Admir
mirati
ation
on - fo
forr the
the
Britain become far outclassed in classical what I know will become the magazine courage of those who undertake the pro
guitar periodicals by other countries. for classical guitarists worldwide. ject.
By now the instrument is beginning to JORGEMOREL
Respect
Respe ct - fo
forr the quali
qualificati
fications
ons of the
get an authoritative musicological New York Editorial staff and its avowed 'clean'
support we never dreamt of 25 years ago, USA policy.
and I have felt some regret that our best Hope - for the grow
growing
ing success
success of the
writers in this field have had to go abroad endeavour, and its permanence.
in order to get publication. In friendship, and with all good wishes.
I strongly hope that with Classical The future of the guitar depends not only
u ita r they will find a proper outlet in on increasing its repertoire, but also RICARDO FERN NDEZ IZNAOLA
our own country. We need just such a expanding its respectability through top Miami
mag a zine to maintain our prominence in publications and pUblicity. I am certain USA
th e guitar world. Everyone looks to that this new addition, with a superb
Bri tain for its performers. Let us hope
Britain selected staff of writers and contributors,
they
the y have reason to do the same with its will do much towards that end. I wish it
mu sicologists and publications.
publications . well. Good luck to Classical Guitar
REGINALD SMITH BRINDLE GREGG NESTOR MICHAEL LORIMER
London London California
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Magazines for guitarists are generally full
of news and information about the private
affairs of various Maestros and there is
nothing wrong in this, providing readers
are so interested to know how much
sugar their beloved hero puts in his
coffee.
About 10 years ago in Italy, the dis
tinguished musicologist and guitarist
Ruggero Chiesa, with funds provided by
Suvini Zerboni (publishers), gave birth to
a magazine for guitarists Il Fronimo)
based on musical and musicological
purposes; its small concern with the
reporting of guitar 'news' has been
reduced to nothing, whilst the polemics,
at least in the style of the editors, have
related only to the subject matter , with an
approach that does credit to the civilisa
tion of the 20th century, and not directed
against persons. This review has
blossomed well and I have been glad to
contribute to it.
I am delighted to learn that a new
publication, sharing the same outlook, is
to be issued in Great Britain. Due to my
Mickey Mouse English I cannot promise
contributions but, if the subject of the
magazine is music, I will remain at least
among its readers.
ANGELO GILARDINO
Italy
About 150 years ago The Giulianiad David Russell
appeared in London. This was probably
the first organ to serve the guitar com
munity in that great city. In the introduc
plays
tion the Editor stated the objectives of the
journal, from which I quote: To bring
their (Giuliani, Carulli, Sor and others)
Antonio Lauro
compositions better to the notice of the
Englis
Eng lish
h amateur andand profes
profession
sional
al - to
discuss the relative merits of their
developments, to instil in those who are
just beginning, and keep alive in those
who are already advanced, an interest in
their instrument - and fmafmall
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provide
ide
food for a little chit-chat among the best
professionals themselves .. This
magazine set a precedent in the English
speaking guitar world in recording a part
of guitar history.
Let me extend a ig welcome to this
new publishing venture, and to wish you
and your staff success in preserving
impartial columns in this long
long tradition of
Gl ' ITAR ~ I S T E R S RECORDS m I R 1001
guitar news.
RONALD PUR CELL On this recording, the fi rs rstt devoted entirely to the
music of Antonio Lauro Lauro,, David Russetl fully captures
Professor of Music, Guitar Department the authentic spirit of Venezuela as was in t e nded by
California State University the composer. From the delightful rhythmic simplicity
of the nine bea b ea utifu l waltzes
waltzes,, to the dramatic excite
USA ment of the Suite Venezolana', the Sonata ' , and then
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'Seis
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May I wish you all the best of luck in this
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new publication, urgently required, I may David as one of the greatest guitar talents to have
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add.
BRIANPENNY

I wholeheartedly welcome the new

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felt a periodical devoted exclusively to the
classical guitar would be of great interest
and benefit to professional and amateur
Good luck with the magazine, it's about Virtuoso South
time something like this came along.
players, and indeed to guitar students
studying at colleges of music. I therefore
STEVEMARSH Americ
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an Guitar
Guitar
Chesterfield
wish the new venture every success. Derbyshire
GORDON CROSSKEY
Royal Northe
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rn
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Manchester respectable, classical guitar magazine ...
I wish it every success and I await the
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h great
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BRIAN JEFFREY Basel
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For us in Sweden, as well as for guitarists

As an ardent student of the history of
guitar journalism, I am keenly aware of
the prominent place of honour English
guitar publications have enjoyed. What a
joy to have learned that, after a long
absence, once again there will be a serious
classical guitar magazine published in
England.
My sincere wishes for your continued
success in providing all English-speaking
people with a forum in which their
involvement with the classical guitar can
in other Nordic countries, there is a
strong need for international contacts. As
English becomes more and more our
second language we are happy to hear
that a new source of information will be
opened to us. We look forward with
interest to the first number of your
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This second Guitar Masters Recording features the
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