Sheet Music
Promise
Contents
- Praise
- Prayer
- Promise
- Caprice
- Chanson
- Majesty
Chanson is a winning little melody set in E minor that manages to move all over the fingerboard in quite a natural way. The Caprice is quicker and harder and relies to an extent on certain fretted notes ringing on across open strings, therefore creating some lovely clashes along the way. Majesty is another standout piece sounding quite different to the Caprice whilst using the same clashing of strings; it would sound great in a concert.
The final three: Praise, Prayer and Promise are all set to a 6th string D. Praise is a happy and warm piece, whilst Prayer is a beautiful, delicate little piece that again deserves to played and heard. The final Promise is a good deal faster but with great melodies and harmonic ideas throughout. Indeed, this trio would make an ideal little set for any intermediate player to play.
All the above pieces are well worth playing and would be a fitting change from the usual fare one hears in concerts. They are mature, melodic, interestingly harmonised, lovely little pieces that come from the pen of a lady whose CD I have played a good number of times since reviewing it!.
Chris Dumigan, Classical Guitar Magazine.
Evocation
Contents
- Evocation
- Diversion No. 1
- Diversion No. 2
- Diversion No. 3
- Answer Me
- Prelude
- Dance
Heartstrings
Contents
- Clarendon Park
- Lucy’s Song
- Wedding Song
- Serenade
- Hector’s Song
- Absent Friend
- In the Presence
- Always Good To Me
Arirang (My Beloved One)
Theme and Variations on a Korean Folk Song
- Introduction
- Arirang Song
- Through the mountain pass
- Striding out boldly with joy
- Happy thoughts of reunion
- Hurry, quick, the water is rising!
- The sorrow of separation
- Arirang – my beloved one!
Always Good to Me
I originally composed this piece for solo guitar (also available from Productions D’ Oz) as a personal devotion, or a song without words if you like and have performed it many times in my own concerts.
It is best to play the music with rubato and lots of expression which help shape the phrasing and highlight the emotional peaks.
I arranged this piece for two guitars as an engagement present for my friends Sam and Emma Rodwell of the Roth Duo and they have performed this piece many times in their UK concerts. In re-creating the piece as a duo I composed a completely different middle section which is substantially longer than the one composed for the solo piece.
The Lady to Her Guitar
In the poem the Lady speaks to the guitar asking how it is possible that its sound has the power to awaken in her feelings which she thought were long since dead – as if the guitar holds magical powers over the laws of nature.
The title of the poem intrigued me and I knew immediately that I wanted to arrange this poem for voice and guitar.
Emily Brontë lived within twenty miles of my own home in Yorkshire and although we are separated in time by over one hundred years this poem draws me closer to her and expresses to me something about the eternal power of music and the evocative sound of the guitar – the instrument above all others that I love so dearly.
Dedications
Contents
- Che! Lagrima?
- Launde Abbey
- Serenata
- Tango for Kasia
- The Gathering of the Ghouls
- La Dame des Regrets
- The Vanishing
From Stillness Into Light
Contents
- On Still Water
- First Light
- Gently Falls the Snow
- Open Air
- Starlight
- Moonlight
- Evening Glow