| Naxos | I began my musical life as a jazz guitarist with eighteen months of sporadic lessons (1934-36) from Terence Usher, an amateur guitarist and professional public relations officer to Manchester City Council. He gave me a sound technical grounding and a knowledge of basic musical theory, and encouraged me to improvise - for all of which I owe him a debt of gratitude. They were the only formal lessons in music I ever had. He was also interested in the classic guitar and this led naturally to my own growing interest in that instrument and in art music in general. As the processes of improvisation and composition are essentially the same — composition is improvisation, given the benefit of time to reconsider and to refine the product. At first I wrote small pieces for the jazz guitar, mostly ‘portraits’ of current girlfriends, but by 1939 I had begun to write for the classic guitar; it developed naturally from there. Music remained an increasingly rewarding hobby, secondary to my professional life as a scientist, until I was almost fifty years old, when it took over the whole of my working life and science ceased to play an active part in it.... © JOHN W.DUARTE (2001) |
| Disc No: 8.554554 | |
| Price: Sek. 74 | |
| Name: John Duarte - Guitar Music | |
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| Order |
| Composer | Opus | Music | Key | Performer |
| Duarte, John | Op.46 | Suite piemontese | Antigoni Goni, Guitar | |
| Duarte, John | Op.57 | Toute en ronde | ||
| Duarte, John | Op.107 | Musikones | ||
| Duarte, John | Op.31 | English Suite | ||
| Duarte, John | Op.25 | Variations on a Catalan folk-song | ||
| Duarte, John | Op.66 | Birds | ||
| Duarte, John | Homage to Antonio Lauro (Three Waltzes) | |||
| Duarte, John | Op.35 | Sonatinette |