The complete video of the Suite for Guitar and Orchestra now available for download on Vimeo https://vimeo.com/ondemand/guitarandorchestra Extract from Suite for Guitar and Orchestra by David Warin Solomons The recording of the whole suite is available on CDBaby at: http://cdbaby.com/cd/davidwarinsolomons17 on Bandcamp at: http://davidwarinsolomons.bandcamp.com/album/suite-for-guitar-and-orchestra on Amazon at: http://a-fwd.com/asin-com=B017Z0P1P6 and on itunes at: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/album/suite-for-guitar-orchestra/id1057704034 The score is available at http://dwsolo.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/sm-231856_guitar_and_orchestra_suite_complete_score_only.html Score and parts are available at http://dwsolo.musicaneo.com/sheetmusic/sm-231857_guitar_and_orchestra_suite_complete_score_and_parts.html This is the first live recording of Suite for guitar and orchestra, performed by András Csáki and the Budapest Scoring Symphonic Orchestra under Péter Illényi The Suite comprises: Dreaming, Folksy Waltz, Sanctus with Pleni sunt caeli (= the heavens are full [of your glory]), Benedictus with another version of Pleni sunt Caeli, and finally Distant Storm. It has elements of Romantic and Renaissance music, flamenco, Latin American, a bit of Celtic square dancing, classical minuets and a general joie de vivre mixed with a little spirituality. Dreaming is a romantic "getting to know you" scene between guitar and orchestra, with slow harmonic progressions in the strings and melodic imitations and dialogues between guitar and woodwind and then also between guitar and harp. A simple waltz follows, in which the flutes take up new melodies and the guitar initially just provides accompaniment but joins in the conversation as the movement progresses. The Sanctus and Benedictus section reflects the rhythms of the Latin words of the mass, with the Osanna (which I have now renamed Pleni sunt caeli) after each main part being a little faster and reminsicent of some of the lute works of Vincenzo Galilei. The harmonic ideas of the Sanctus also colour the slower parts of the last movement, Distant Storm, but the main part of this final movement is a rhythmically exciting dialogue between the various sections of the orchestra and the guitar, leading to an abrupt conclusion, possibly the first thunderclap of a distant but approaching storm, or possibly just a bit of fun. The full video will appear on itunes in due course - I will update this description when this is done.