Weather Music

This latest work for two guitars was written last year and is in three contrasting movements. Forest Drizzle begins with a slightly latin rhythm against an offbeat percussive idea in guitar 2. Mostly in semiquavers the opening melody then appears and is friendly and interesting and contrasts nicely with the accompaniment. The melodic interest constantly shifts from player to player and one assumes that the constant semiquavers are the pitter-patter of the rain and quite effective it is.
Country Breeze is slower with a modal almost folk element to the main idea, which begins gently only to become a little more insistently rhythmic later on.
Desert Heat is the final movement and begins with an opening theme played two octaves apart by both players. Again it begins gently before a middle theme becomes more frenetic until the music dies away on the octave idea that opened the movement. A sudden fortissimo and it is all over.
This is a friendly, melodic and musically interesting little set that will win many interested duos over to Kruisbrink's music. It does require an intermediate technique at the very least as anyone without a certain command of the fingerboard would definitely be out of their depth but anyone who fits the bill will be charmed by its inventiveness.
Chris Dumigan (Classical Guitar Magazine)