Discography and Repertoire for the Ten-String Guitar
We are developing a comprehensive list of recordings of performers on the ten-string guitar. My thanks to David Starbuck for this initial list. If you would like to contribute titles and artists please write to info@tenstringguitar.com. ------------------------------------- CDs Romance d'amour DG 423 699-2 Alfonso X El Sabio, I. Albeniz, R. Sainz de la Maza, F. Moreno Torroba, M. Albeniz, E. Pujol, Anon/Llobet, F. Sor, X. Montsalvatge, E. Granados, M. de Falla, A. Ruiz Pipo, Anon/Yepes Domenico Scarlatti Sonaten DG 413 783-2 12 harpsichord sonatas Malaguena: Spanish Guitar Music DG 289 469 649-2 I. Albeniz, F. Tarrega, J. Rodrigo, A. Ruiz-Pipo, F. Sor, G. Sanz, A. Mudarra, A. Soler, E. Granados, M. de Falla, Anon/Yepes Guitar Duos with Godelieve Monden RCA 09026-60764-2 T. Ford, M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco, F. Carulli, A. Ruiz-Pipo, P. Petit, G.I. Gurdjieff, J. Rodrigo Recital Amerique Latine Espagne Forlane UCD 10907 F. Moreno-Torroba, H. Ayala, A. Ruiz-Pipo, V. Asencio, G. Gombau A. Vivaldi Guitar and Mandolin Concertos DG 429528 5 concerti J.S. Bach: Works for Lute DG 445 713-2 2 CDs on guitar Guitarra Espanola 5 CD set DG 474 666-2 compiled from various DG recordings. ------------------------------------ Records J.S. Bach: Works for Lute (on Baroque Lute) Archiv 2708 030 (2 record set) Musica Catalana DG 2530 273 A. Segovia, M. Llobet, F. Casanovas, F. Mompou, N. Yepes, O. Espla, V. Asencio DG 2531 113 A. Kuhnel, T. Robinson, M. Conge, Anon, F. Carulli, F. Sor, L. Brouwer Guitarra Romantica DG 2530 871 M. Giuiliani, F. Sor, F. Tarrega Spanish Guitar Music of Five Centuries: Vol. 1 DG 139 365 A. Mudarra, Luys Milan, Luys de Narvaez, D. Pisador, G. Sanz, P. Soler Spanish Guitar Music of Five Centuries: Vol. 2 DG 139366 F. Sor, F. Tarrega, I. Albeniz, M. de Falla, J. Rodrigo, E. Halffter, F. Moreno Torroba, X. Montsalvatge, M. Ohana, A. Ruiz-Pipo J.S. Bach Lute Works I (on guitar) DG 2530 461 J.S. Bach Lute Works II (on guitar) DG 2530 462 Musica espanola DG 2530 159 I. Albeniz, E. Granados, M. de Falla, J. Turina Heitor Villa-Lobos DG 2530 140 Fernando Sor DG 139 364 24 Etudes Concertos with Garcia Navarro and the English Chamber Orchestra DG 2530 975 M. Giuliani, J. Rodrigo Concertos with Garcia Navarro and the London Symphony Orchestra DG 2530 718 H. Villa-Lobos, M. Casatelnuovo-Tedesco Works for Guitar DG 2530 096 J.S. Bach, S.L. Weiss Les Grands d'Espagne Volume 4 Forlane UM3903 S. Bacarisse, F. Moreno-Torroba Les Grands d'Espagne Volume 5 Forlane UM 3907 H. Ayala, S. Bacarisse, F. Poulenc, A. Ruiz-Pipo, V. Asencio, G. Gombau The World of the Spanish Guitar Vol. 2 London STS 15306 L. Narvaez, G. Sanz, F. Sor, F. Tarrega, J. Malats, E. Pujol, R. Sainz de la Maza, A. Ruiz-Pipo, H. Villa-Lobos, I. Savio, N. Yepes ------------------------------------- Others ------------------------------------- Daniel Kuper RNE 640020 (CD) H. Ayala, A. Fleury, J. Sagreras, D. Kuper, M. Ponce, J. Malats, I. Albeniz, M. de Falla, F. Tarrega Pierre Laniau EMI CDC 7 490932 (CD) Music of Erik Satie Simon Wynberg Bountiful Bach SCD 4542 (CD) Stephan Schmidt Bach Lute Works V 4861 (2 CD) Vincenzo Macaluso The 10 string guitar plays Spanish classics Klavier KS-552 (LP) J. Rodrigo, I. Albeniz, F. Tarrega, E. Granados Vincenzo Macaluso and Floyd Stancliff (flute) Masters of Flute and Guitar Klavier KS-537 (LP) J.S. Bach, P. Locatelli, C. Koechlin, J-M. LeClair, M. Doran, M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco Vincenzo Macaluso The 10 string guitar interprets French Classics Klavier KS 523 (LP) Debussy, Ravel, Milhaud, Satie, F. Poulenc Vincenzo Macaluso The 10 string guitar interprets classics . . . Klavier KS-508 (LP) J.S. Bach, N. Paganini, E. Satie, F. Sor, E. Bloch Janet Marlow Passion & Grace
A. Barrios, L. van Beethoven, J. Marlow, J.S. Bach, H. Villa-Lobos, L. Brouwer Janet Marlow Outside the City CMC 8003 (CD)
Bis CDs Grammofon AB BIS, Bragevägen 2 S-18264 Djursholm Sweden
-BIS CD 586 Erik Satie arranged for Alto Guitar (11 string) and performed by Anders Miolin
-BIS CD 886 Maurice Ravel arranged for 10 string guitar and performed by Anders Miolin
-BIS CD 686 Heitor Villa Lobos, the complete works for solo guitar, Anders Miolin
-BIS CD 986 Claude Debussy, arranged for 10 string guitar and performed by Anders Miolin
-BIS CD 1116 Enrique Granados, 12 danzas espanolas, arranged for 10 string guitar and performed by Anders Miolin
D. Kellner, J. Dowland, R. Straube, E. Roldan, F. Poulenc, G. Gombau, J. Turi
Original Repertoire for the Modern 10-String Guitar
Compiled, contributed, and with notes by Viktor van Niekerk
(vivanni@hotmail.com comments, queries, additions, and corrections welcome)
Key to terms:
Modern (Yepes) string configuration - Standard tuning:
[e-b-g-d-A-E-C-A#-G#-F#]
[NB: Re-entry tuning of (8), (9) and (10)]
Modern Alternative string configuration - Standard tuning:
e-b-g-d-A-E-C-A#1-G#-F#
[NB: (8) is an octave lower than the Standard Modern/Yepes configuration]
Romantic (Baroque) string configuration - Standard tuning:
e-b-g-d-A-E-D-C-B1-A1
[No re-entry]
Marlow string configuration:
standard tuning: e-b-g-d-a-e-B-F#-C#-G#
[NB: re-entry tuning from (7) to (10).]
Different string configurations: When a work requires that at least one string be replaced by another with a thinner or thicker diameter (in order to be tuned as required), or when the standard order of the strings is necessarily altered, this constitutes a different string configuration.
Scordatura: Non-standard tuning, within the context of the specified string configuration
Other configurations tunings are indicated in the list, in conjunction with the work.
NB: All 6-string guitar music can be played on the 10-string guitar. This repertoire list is merely aimed at creating awareness of original compositions for the modern 10-string guitar.
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SOLOS:
Maurice Ohana (1914-1992)
Tiento (1955; rev. mid 60s)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§Originally for 6-string guitar, later revised for 10-string. Performance on a modern 10-string guitar was preferred by the composer.
§Publisher:
§Composer:
Maurice Ohana (1914-1992)
Si le jour paraît... (1963)
I. Temple
II. Enueg
III. Maya-Marsya
IV. 20 avril (Planh)
V. La chevelure de Bérénice
VI. Jeu des quatre vents
VII. Aube (Alba)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§Movements 4, 6, and 7 have alternatives (reductions) for performance on 6-string guitar, but the composer preferred the use of a modern 10-string guitar.
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes; Alberto Ponce, Ramón Montoya, Ivo Malec, Manuel Ruiz Pipó
§Publisher: (NB The seven movements are published individually.)
§Composer:
alcidez lanza (*1929)
modulos I (1965)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§All notes fall within the 6-string guitar tessitura, but this work, which makes use of sustained sounds, was intended for the Modern 10-string tuning and configuration, enabling sustained resonance for all 12 tones.
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes
§Published by Shelan: (see composers home page)
§Composer:
Antonio Ruiz-Pipó (1934-1997)
Cinqo Movimientos (1965)
I. [Moderato]
II. Allegretto
III. Muy lento
IV. Vivo
V. Cantabile
§String configuration: Modern
§Scordatura may be required unspecified in the manuscript
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes, « parra la guitarra de diez cuerdas de Narciso Yepes »
§Unpublished
§Association des Amis dAntonio Ruiz-Pipó 4, Rue du Parc-Royal, Paris, 75003
Leonardo Balada (*1933)
Analogías (1967)
I. Propulsiones
II. Oscillaciones
III. Contornos
IV. Abismos
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes
§Published by Beteca Music, c/o Music Associates of America:
§Composer:
Vicente Asencio (1908-1979)
Collectici íntim (1970)
I. La serenor
II. La joia
III. La calma
IV. La gaubança
V. La frisança
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard, aside from scordatura of (7) to B1
§Other configurations possible also for 6-string guitar
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes
§Publisher:
Bruno Maderna (1920-1973)
Y después (1971)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard, aside from scordatura of (7) to B1
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes
§The original manuscript facsimile is published by Ricordi Italy:
§NB: 10-string guitarists should specify the original 10-string version (132051) when ordering, as Ricordi also publishes [in my opinion] a very questionable reduction of this piece for 6-string guitar (138177), not authorised by the composer.
§Written for, or dedicated to: Narciso Yepes* (the work as a whole), Hirotsugu Kakinuma (3rd movement)
*[This work, dedicated to Narciso Yepes, was erroneously written for a string configuration that Yepes did not use or endorse. I have no evidence to suggest that Yepes did or did not perform it, but it is very unlikely that he did.]
§Publisher:
§Composer:
José Ramón Encinar (*1954)
El aire de saber cerrar los ojos (1975)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§Written for, or dedicated to: Jorge Fresno
§Published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni.
§Composer:
Michèle Reverdy (*1943)
Number One (1977)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§Written for, or dedicated to: Pierre Laniau
§The published Salabert edition is a reduction for 6-string.
§The original manuscript for 10-string guitar is unpublished available from composer.
§Composer:
Lewis Spratlan (*1940)
Chiasmata (1979)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern (Alternative) Scordatura
§Written for, or dedicated to: Janet Marlow
§The manuscript facsimile is published by Margun Music Inc.
§Available through Shawnee Press:
§Composer:
Maurice Ohana (1914-1992)
Cadran Lunaire* (1981-82)
I. Saturnal
II. Jondo
III. Sylva
IV. Candil
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern Standard
§All movements have alternatives (reductions) for performance on 6-string guitar, but the composer is known to have preferred the use of a modern 10-string guitar.
NB: this is not the standard Modern string configuration and tuning. The re-entry tuning is absent and thus strings (8), (9), and (10) are an octave too low, affecting the tessitura of sympathetic resonance and therefore its balance and efficacy. [It seems that this string configuration and tuning may at some point have resulted from an individual guitarists confusion between the Modern (Yepes) tuning and the Romantic string configuration, while being effectively neither one nor the other.]
§This work may be performed as colloid-E. The E-suffix denotes an ensemble version.
§Written for, or dedicated to: Magnus Andersson; Elision Ensemble
§Publisher:
§Composer:
Boudewijn Cox (*1965)
Memento (1990)
§All notes fall within the 6-string guitar tessitura.
§Performance on a modern 10-string guitar is preferred by the composer.
§Published by CeBeDeM:
§Composer:
David Hönigsberg (*1959)
African Sonata (1990)
I. A Basutu tune...
II. A quiet summer evening...
III. (Fast... Meno mosso Tempo I)
IV. (Energetically)
§String configuration & Tuning: Modern (Alternative) Scordatura
§Alternative possibilities for other string configurations/tunings or 6-string guitar
§Originally written as Suite on African Themes for David Hewitt (unperformed)
§Revised as African Sonata in 2004 and dedicated to Viktor van Niekerk
§Edited and fingered playing score in preparation
§Composer:
Eric Pénicaud (*1952)
Parabole Créole (Variations sur un thème de Leo Brouwer) (1992)
I. Parabole 1
II. Parabole 2
§String configuration & Tuning: Romantic Standard, aside from scordatura (9) to B-flat
All notes fall within the 6-string guitar tessitura, but performance on a modern 10-string guitar is preferred by the composer and additional strings may be used where appropriate.
Available from the Classical Guitar Society of South Africa: vivanni@hotmail.com.
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Dominic Frasca /Marc Mellits
Dometude
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CONCERTI / CHAMBER MUSIC:
Maurice Ohana (1914-1992)
Concerto: Trois Graphiques (1950-7)
§Originally 6-string guitar & orchestra; revised for 6- or 10-string guitar & orchestra
§Modern string configuration
§Dedicated to Narciso Yepes
§Published by Amphion
§Composer:
Antonio Ruiz-Pipó(1934-1997)
Tablas (Concerto) (1968-69/72)
§10-string guitar & orchestra (also for 6-string with some alterations)
§Modern string configuration
§Written for Narciso Yepes
§Published by Union Musical Ediciones
Leonardo Balada (*1933)
Persistencias: Sinfonía-concertante(1972)
§Amplified 10-string guitar & orchestra
§Modern string configuration
§Written for Narciso Yepes
§On hire from Schirmer:
§Composer:
Jorge Labrouve(*1948)
Juex op. 12 (Concertino) (1975)
§10-string guitar & string ensemble of 12
§Modern string configuration
§Written for Narciso Yepes
§Composer:
Alejandro Yagüe (*1947)
Confidencial No. 3 (1977)
§10-string guitar & piano (4 hands)
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Amaury du Closel (*1956)
Concerto (1984)
§10-string guitar & orchestra
§Modern string configuration
§Written for Pierre Laniau
§Composer:
Adolfo Núñez (*1954)
Los árboles y el bosque (1984)
§Flute, viola & 10-string guitar
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Jorge Labrouve (*1948)
La Respuesta Op. 24 (1985)
§Flute, alto & 10-string guitar
§Modern string configuration
§Composer:
Stellan Sagvik (*1952)
Serenade Piquante, op. 143 (1987)
§Alto flute, 10-string guitar, & percussion ad lib
§Also for oboe & 10-string, or oboe damore & 10-string respectively as op 143b and 143c