Thursday, July 14, 2016

Jorge Caballero - C. Curtis-Smith Evocation


I'm pretty sure this is a sort of fantasia on material from the large, very complex song cycle by Curtis Curtis-Smith, Golden Are My Flowers. The composer of the guitar piece isn't stated, explicitly but I think it is probably a guitarist who made the adaptation.  If that's the case it is in the very old tradition of guitarists making similar pieces on operas going back to the start of the 19th century.  If that's the case then I'm very impressed with the choice of material and the execution of the composition.  If Curtis-Smith made the setting, I'm even more impressed that a non-guitarist could do such a fine job.
Here is, I believe, the first song in the cycle.


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