Lendle, Wolfgang - Carmen Fantasy

Pages	16
UPC	680160117734

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This Fantasy for solo guitar on themes from Bizet’s opera Carmen follows a long tradition of original compositions for different instrumentations by many composers from Sarasate to Shchedrin. The work is not a mere transcription in the sense of reducing a full operatic score to a one line guitar version. It is rather an arrangement in the Lisztian sense, taking into account not only the instrumental characteristics of the target instrument, the guitar, but also exploiting these possibilities to underline musical ideas, especially by using the sonoral effects to make the guitar sound like a small orchestra, thus assuming the nature of an original composition.

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