{"id":6719,"date":"2017-04-25T08:40:10","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=6719"},"modified":"2017-04-25T08:40:10","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T15:40:10","slug":"recent-releases-tuesday-sheet-music-from-anton-diabelli-marc-le-gars-and-javier-farias","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/recent-releases-tuesday-sheet-music-from-anton-diabelli-marc-le-gars-and-javier-farias\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent Releases Tuesday: Sheet Music from Anton Diabelli, Marc Le Gars, and Javier Farias"},"content":{"rendered":"

We get so much sheet music sent to us by various publishers year \u2019round\u2014literally hundreds of pieces in every setting imaginable (solo guitar, multiple guitars, guitar-flute, guitar-harp, etc.)\u2014but we don\u2019t have the space to write about the great majority of them in our four quarterly issues each year.<\/p>\n

So, just as we are now listing new classical guitar CD releases every other Tuesday here, we now use the Tuesdays in between those to announce new print music releases. As with the CDs, these are not reviews per se (some\u00a0will<\/em>\u00a0be reviewed in the magazine, but frankly most will not), but we think it\u2019s important to at least get the word out about what\u2019s being offered to guitarists out there. Where possible, we\u2019ve linked the titles to the publisher\u2019s website or some other outlet where it can be purchased, and stated the degree of difficulty (if provided by the publisher or it\u2019s obvious).\u00a0\u00a0\u2014Blair Jackson<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is a link to our previous listings from\u00a0October 25<\/a>,\u00a0November 8<\/a>,\u00a0November 22<\/a>,\u00a0December 6<\/a>,\u00a0December 20<\/a>, January 3<\/a>, January 17<\/a>, January 31<\/a>, February 14<\/a>, February 28<\/a>, March 14<\/a>, March 28<\/a>, April 11<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\nAnton Diabelli<\/strong>
\n7 Preludes Op. 103<\/strong><\/em><\/a>
\nUt Orpheus, 24 pp.<\/p>\n

The name sounds Italian, but Diabelli (1781\u20131858) was Austrian, better known as a music publisher and teacher than as a composer or guitarist; indeed these preludes appear to have been written to be played by his guitar students, as the superb Italian composer Angelo Gilardino notes in his preface for this edition: “They can be considered arpeggio studies, because they aim to the development of the right-hand technique with ordinary patterns, but they are not banal in their harmonic sequences; always respectful of the rules and built to create a full and resonant tone.” The pieces, edited and fingered by Marcello Rivelli, are clearly didactic, with each offering a slightly different skill-set to work on. (They are billed at part of the Lucio Matarazzo Collection of “Studies and Educational Pieces from Past Guitar Masters.”) And though they’re not really concert pieces per se, there are interesting wrinkles here and there amid the “exercises.” You can hear all seven played by a guitarist named Papasyuzo by clicking on this YouTube link<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And here’s a version of <\/em>No. 6, which is arguably the hardest of the bunch, as played by Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Delcamp<\/a>:<\/em>
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