• Carmen Fantasy

    1998 | 22 mins | for four guitars

    1. Torero

    2. Habanera

    3. Aragonaise

    4. Seguidilla

    5. Gypsy Song

    “This party-piece of the year achieves the impossible… flair, quick thinking and a feel for colour are everywhere… part satire, [it] cleverly deconstructs the opera and other composers’ Spanish fantasies.” BBC Music Magazine

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    Commissioned by Carlton Home Entertainment. First performed by the TETRA Guitar Quartet, Fairfield Halls, Croydon, 4th March 1999. Recorded on Carmen Fantasy (Hallmark, 30368 01352 © 1999) and on Carmen (CADCD0460 © 2004). Published by Doberman-Yppan ISBN 978-2-89503-720-0 © 2015