We play an eclectic range of music. Over the years, we
have played early music, an arrangement of an organ piece by Boellmann,
pieces by Debussy, Ravel, Granados, contemporary music by the American
composer (and former member of the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet) Andrew
York and the Welsh composer Daniel Jones, a Latin American piece and a
jazz piece in 7/8, this being played primarily using harmonics.
Our current repertoire includes arrangements of
classical music as well as pieces composed specially for guitar
orchestra.
Here are some examples of arrangements. The first are
conducted by Valérie Hartzell, our current Musical Director;
the last two
are earlier recordings with Peter Rueffer, our previous Musical
Director:
Air and Rondeau from
Henry Purcell's The Fairy
Queen arranged by Peter Rueffer:
Franz Schubert's song Auf
dem Wasser
zu singen (To be sung on the water), arranged by
one of
our members:
March from The
Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky,
arranged by
Peter Rueffer:
From Grieg's Holberg
Suite: Prelude, Air and
Rigaudon, again arranged by Peter Rueffer:
As for original compositions for guitar orchestra, they
include Gustav's Dream by Olga Amelkina-Vera, and pieces by Mark
Houghton and Chris
Dumigan. Here are again some samples:
English Idyll by Chris Dumigan:
Grand Jig by Mark Houghton:
Further samples of our music can be heard on the "Our
CDs"
page and
these CDs are available for purchase.
Finally, you may be interested in hearing Valérie
Hartzell playing solo. Here are two clips from her YouTube channel,
first playing Mark Houghton's Dawn at Ynys Goch, then playing Fuoco
by French composer Roland Dyens:
Please contact us if you
are
interested in our repertoire and would like more information.
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