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Composers featured: Regondi, Bach, Barrios

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Regondi: Etude #5
Barrios: La Catedral
Regondi: Etude #1
Justin Holland: Delta Kappa Epsilon
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Villa-Lobos: Etude #3
Bach: Lute Suite No. 3 In A Minor, BWV 995

Historical context

The 10 Etudes for Guitar by Swiss-born Giulio Regondi represent the pinnacle of technical achievement for nineteenth century guitar performance. Dense textures, large stretches, fast scales and arpeggios, and obscure modulations are used in combinations that were unrivaled among his contemporaries. Etude #5 is a fast, scalar fun piece in A major.

Recognized as Paraguayan composer Barrios Mangoré’s masterpiece, the 3-movement work La Catedral (The Cathedral), dating from 1921, uses both the ambient sound of the cathedral bells coupled with the internal sound of an organist playing Bach as points of inspiration.

Regondi’s Etude #1 is a C major exuberant and fairly clear cut piece to start off his set of etudes. It develops with a sequence towards the last half before resolving peacefully with a dramatic C major arpeggiated cadence.

Justin Holland was an African-American classical guitarist, music teacher, community leader, and Underground Railroad activist. Delta Kappa Epsilon is Holland's guitar arrangement of the patriotic grand march originally written by Alfred Pease.

Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos' Étude No. 3, part of his Twelve Études for Guitar, was first published by Max Eschig, Paris, in 1953. The piece, strongly influenced by the didactic works of earlier composers for the guitar, is in D major and marked Allegro moderato. It is an arpeggio study, like the two preceding études, but incorporates slurred notes (as in Étude No. 2) and barre chords.

The Suite in G Minor, BWV 995, was transcribed for lute by German composer Johann Sebastian Bach between the spring of 1727 and the winter of 1731 from his own Cello Suite No. 5, BWV 1011. It is in six movements:
Präludium – Très Vite
Allemande
Courante
Sarabande
Gavotte I – Gavotte II En Rondeaux
Gigue
The sources for this are: an autograph manuscript by Bach, in staff notation on two staves (B-Br Ms.II 4085 MUSI.), and a version in lute tablature made from it by an unnamed lutenist (D-LEm Sammlung Becker, Ms. III.11.3).

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