TO: All Stations

FR: Tony Morris

DT: June 20, 2018

RE: ***** CLASSICAL GUITAR ALIVE!   Summer Music: Vivaldi, Purcell, Piazzolla, & more, Matthew Dunne Interview ******

Program ID# 18-25

Title:  Summer Music: Vivaldi, Piazzolla, & more, Matthew Dunne Interview

Total length:58:57

INTRODUCTION:

  Bizet:  Carmen Suite: Prelude             Los Romeros, guitar quartet

                                                              (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

  Vivaldi: Summer, from The Seasons     Bandini-Chiacchiaretta Duo, Cerrato Brothers

                                                               (Contrasts Records 2014)

  Purcell: A Midsummer Night’s Dream     Saarlandisches Zupforchester

                                                                Reiner Stutz, cond.

                                                                (Fono 97787)

  Degen: A Summer Afternoon, op.15       Morten Zeuthen, cello

                                                                 Erling Moldrup, guitar

                                                                 (Classico 285)

  Martin: August, from Songs of the Calendar  Iliana Matos, guitar

                                                                  (GSP 1030)

  Interview: Matt Dunne: “I was asked to write this piece for the GFA Competition …  … played it really, really great. “

  Dunne: Appalachian Summer     Jerome Ducharme, guitar

                                                       (Naxos 8570189) 

  Miguel: Summer Suite, op.11                   Duo Capriccioso

                                                                  (Thorofon 2204)

  Piazzolla: Verano Porteno                        Bandini-Chiacchiaretta Duo

                                                                   I Musici di Parma

                                                                   (2009 Concerto Records)

 David Scarth: Jazz on Summer Day: Brazilian Fantasy  York Guitar Quartet

                                                                     (York Guitar Quartet 2010)

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS

This week’s edition of Classical Guitar Alive! features music written about Summer, and an interview with composer Matthew Dunne, whose work “Appalachian Summer” was the set piece for the 2005 Guitar Foundation of America International Competition.

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