• Sonata

    2006 | 15 mins | for solo guitar

    1. Pastorale

    2. Toccata

    3. Adagio sostenuto

    “Goss’s Sonata for solo guitar (2006) finds him well and truly on home ground. Each of the three movements of the work takes as its starting-point a work from a different composer: Debussy for the Pastorale, Scarlatti for the Toccata and Beethoven for the Adagio sostenuto . Michael Partington, for whom the work was written, honours it with a supremely fluent performance, bringing out the harp-like qualities of the first, the rapid repeated notes and ringing, campanella effects in the second, and the poignancy of the double variations in the third.” International Record Review

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    Commissioned by Michael Partington. First performance 30th September 2006 for the Denver Classical Guitar Society as part of Stephen Goss’ residency at the University of Denver, Colorado, USA. Recorded on Frozen Music (CACD0711© 2007) and Resonance (Rosewood Recordings, Seattle, USA, Rose 1013-CD © 2009). Published by Doberman-Yppan© 2014.