SKU: HL.48014423
UPC: 073999894417. 9.0x12.0x0.014 inches.
Guitar Solo (also Lute).
SKU: HL.48009039
UPC: 073999574845.
Guita r Solo (also Lute).
SKU: HL.48009929
UPC: 073999236156. 9.25x12.25x0.035 inches.
SKU: HL.48000874
UPC: 073999984057. 8.25x11.75 inches.
SKU: HL.48024601
ISBN 9781540050663. UPC: 888680933807. 9.0x12.0 inches.
Beyond the White Hand: Construction with Guitar Player, was commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust and first performed at St John's Smith Square by Andrey Lebedev in 2014. This substantial addition to the advanced solo guitar repertoire reflects and expands upon an earlier miniature from 2007: Guitar and White Hand, Birtwistle’s first piece for the instrument. Both pieces draw artistic inspiration from the artist Pablo Picasso: the smaller piece written for Forbes Henderson and sharing a title with the 1927 painting of the same name. The larger piece was composed in the centenary year of Picasso's Construction with Guitar Player after which the piece is named and the sculpture Guitar.Picasso made about a dozen 'sculptural' constructions’ during 1912-1914, many of which employ recycled or carved elements. A good number of these were destroyed and only one, Still Life was shown publically during his lifetime. Picasso's own Construction with Guitar Player was an installation of a partially drawn and painted figure to which he added arms made of newspaper that fold away from the wall to embrace a real guitar. In the foreground stands a table with a bottle of wine and this was photographed by Picassoin his studio in 1913. Musically, Birtwistle’s Construction is a large scale, dense work of sixteen minutes’ duration. It does not develop linearly, but presents fragments of detail, interruptions, digressions and loops as a “deconstructed guitar†in sound.
SKU: HL.48009695
UPC: 073999758252.
Two or more Guitars.
SKU: HL.48011160
UPC: 073999558395. 9.0x12.3x0.011 inches.
SKU: HL.48011914
UPC: 073999119145. 9.0x12.5x0.053 inches.
SKU: HL.48010120
UPC: 073999989656. 9.0x12.0x0.036 inches.
SKU: HL.48011396
UPC: 073999858891. 8.25x11.75x0.085 inches.
SKU: HL.48010275
UPC: 073999922899. 9.25x12.25x0.068 inches.
Contents: Canario, Spagnoletta and Tordiglione from Intavolature di Chittarra e Chittariglia (Calvi) * Tasteggiata Soave from Libro Della Chitarra Spagnolla (Foscarini) * Passacalles and Villano from Poema Harmonica (Guerau) * Entree and Bouree from Suite No. XIX (Weiss) * La Cavalcade, La Favorite and Le Turbulent (Dandrieu). Duets: La Lully from Book II of the 1st Suite (Dandrieu) * Sonata No. 33 (Soler).
SKU: HL.48024563
ISBN 9780851628660. UPC: 840126902501. 9x12 inches.
Commissione d by Craig Ogden and the Cheltenham Music Festival, with funds generously provided by Paul Miron, Peter & Veronica Lofthouse and the Cheltenham Festival Society. Air with Variations was first performed by Craig Ogden in the Pittville Pump Rooms, Cheltenham, Saturday 12 July 2008 and following revisions, has been edited for publication with the composer by Michael McCartney.