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Title: 5 Favorite Guitar Pieces?
Post by: bwv 1080 on February 19, 2016, 06:00:17 AM
Carter - Changes
Takemitsu - All in Twilight
Henze - Drei Tentos from Kammermusik
Ferneyhough - Kurze Schatten II
Falla - Homenaje
Title: Re: 5 Favorite Guitar Pieces?
Post by: ComposerOfAvantGarde on February 19, 2016, 12:32:53 PM
Man there are so many...,.i love all the pieces you've mentioned already so I'll pick some different ones (I really can't pick just 5!)

Solo guitar
Brouwer: Sonata
Giuliani: Grand Overture
Carter: Shard
Koshkin: The Prince's Toys
José: Sonata
(Honourable mentions go to Mertz's Fantaisie Hongroise, Richard Charlton's Threnody for Chernobyl, variations on a 12-tone theme, Sor's Grand Solo, Villa-Lobos's 12 Études and basically just all of Brouwer's solo music!)

duos, trios, quartets
Piazzola: Tango Suite
Sor: L'Encouragment
Brouwer: Cuban Landscape with Rain
Phillip Houghton: Three Duets
Kleynjans: Oceano Nox

concertos
Brouwer: Concerto No. 3 'Concierto Elegiaco'
Takemitsu: To the Edge of Dream
Rodrigo: Concierto Madrigal
Giuliani: Concerto no. 3
Villa-Lobos: Guitar Concerto
(And I'll squeeze in one more)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Concerto no. 1

Title: Re: 5 Favorite Guitar Pieces?
Post by: The new erato on February 19, 2016, 01:05:14 PM
Nocturnal by Britten.
Title: Re: 5 Favorite Guitar Pieces?
Post by: aligreto on February 20, 2016, 12:45:01 AM
There are a number of works listed above that I do not even know so I will have to investigate them.
One work that I will throw into the mix which would definitely be in my top five is Concerto Antico by Richard Harvey....


(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/71H4z13kVNL._SY355_.jpg)


....a wonderful work and definitely worth a listen if you do not know it.
Title: Re: 5 Favorite Guitar Pieces?
Post by: James on February 20, 2016, 10:11:32 AM
Off the top .. BACH is the summit, super human technique required, yet highly musical, together, lyrical ..
other than that I do love Dowland, and Albéniz's Asturias arr.; Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez.
Title: Re: 5 Favorite Guitar Pieces?
Post by: Drasko on February 20, 2016, 10:38:29 AM
Tarrega - Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Brouwer - Elogio de la Danza
Barrios - La Catedral
De Lucia - Cepa Andaluza
Tarrega - Adelita
Title: Re: 5 Favorite Guitar Pieces?
Post by: ComposerOfAvantGarde on February 25, 2016, 02:59:40 PM
Kyuhee Park has an incredible recording of the Brouwer sonata. There is also this stunning performance on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZapPlB3a444