solos and duets, 1991

these are tracks from a tape i made during my first year of studying music in college, to send friends a sample of what i was doing. it was made with my trusty general electric boombox, and features the sound of its motor running.

this was so early in my studies, and a little embarrassing; please be gentle. the duets are somewhat better than the solos.

composer	title	length size	comments
fernando sor	minuet	02:04 2mb	this is one from a collection of thirty minuets by fernando sor which my teacher gave me so i'd have some easy sor that wasn't as overplayed as the studies. nice harmonics. :) i hope i became less violent with the fortes as time went on.
fernando sor	minuet	01:54 2mb	another from the thirty minuets. i see in my copy of the score that my teacher was trying to get me to play with rubato; i hope you don't get seasick.
luis milan	pavane 2	02:50 3mb	one of milan's haunting little pavanes.
hector villoud	huaino	01:41 2mb	this is from a collection of argentinian music arranged by tomas pomilio. pardon the flubs.
pascual quaratino	milonga	02:01 2mb	another from the argentinian collection. yikes, this was a little beyond me at the time. i wish i'd had it under my fingers well enough that the rhythm wasn't so stilted.
johann anton logy	partita in a minor, 1. aria	02:00 2mb	this was a great time-filler for gigs. playing background music at a party, you'd be amazed how many repeats you could get away with, with just bits of first-year student ornamentation. boy, the flubs and memory mistakes; i must have learned this the week before.
johann anton logy	partita in a minor, 2. capriccio	01:58 2mb
johann anton logy	partita in a minor, 3. sarabande	02:51 3mb
johann anton logy	partita in a minor, 4. gavotte	01:39 2mb
johann anton logy	partita in a minor, 5. gigue	02:05 2mb
erik satie	gymnopedie 1	04:10 4mb	another gig favorite.
johann sebastian bach	minuet	02:17 2mb	wow, i actually learned enough in the piano proficiency class to struggle through this!
john dowland	come again	02:46 3mb	now a more fun part; friends! here's geoff parrish belting out some dowland while i make like a lute. geoff gets a little shatnerish at the end. just how hot was it?
franz schubert	der wanderer	04:48 4mb	this may be the best thing i did this year. obscenely great music, and we nailed it as best we could at the time. geoff goes appropriately germanic and borderline psycho, and i actually hit the passages in thirds around 3:00. woohoo!
anonymous	drewrie's accordes	02:42 2mb	the rest of these are guitar duets with david ricketts. this is one of the renaissance staples of our bookstore-playing days. my trill's bigger than your trill.
anonymous	la rossignol	01:42 2mb	tweet!
ferdinando carulli	duet in g	02:20 2mb	a nice little tune for your book browsing pleasure. the score's here.
ferdinando carulli	fughetta	02:14 2mb	such a cute little fugue, you just want to pinch its cheeks. the score's here.
mauro giuliani	polonaise concertante op. 137, no. 2	06:43 6mb	this was such a nice surprise for me; i'd forgotten all about this fun piece. i didn't think we were doing anything this good this early. i wish we'd made a second take and gotten the flubs out.