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One of my own personal highlights of a couple of years ago was the CD of the same name played by the talented Ms Decamp. Her writing, like her playing was imaginative interesting and definitely one for your «Desert Island Disc« Selection. So I was delighted to see this come my way after such a long time; having said that the piece as played on the recording was ostensibly a solo with some quasi-improvised parts for second guitar. That is apparently why she has reworked the piece to involve the 2nd guitar more fully. At a hair-raisingly fast pace of 218 crotchets-a-minute with the piece largely written in quavers, one can immediately see that this is for the fully fledged guitarist only. The music is jazz-like, and the first part consists mostly of solo runs with the barest attempt at any chord work. Likewise the second guitar part, while less demanding on the player is essentially the same (There are only one or two occasional chords). At the required speed this little gem is over in the merest of time but is nevertheless a great little item to show off your arpeggio technique and general command of the fingerboard, while going off at full tilt.
This is a nice little piece for a well-developed duo, (or even solo player) technically up to the required standard necessary to perform this piece as it should be performed - fast!
Chris Dumigan (Classical Guitar)