About Composers
Listed here are details of classical guitar composers who have inspired Bruce Paine to make recordings of their works. This includes friendships which have lead to collaborations and shared performances. This is a labour of love and current work-in-progress. There are gaps and further details will be published as time permits.
Štěpán Rak is a prolific Czech composer of highly original guitar works and uniquely fascinating figure in the world of classical guitar performance.
His Three Russian Waltzes, Remembering Prague and Cry of the Guitar all feature on Bruce Paine''s CD Second Recital for Guitar.
Celebration Suite is a wonderfully majestic and joyful, three-movement work for solo classical guitar by UK composer Derek Hasted. It is designed to please audiences and be suitable for guitarists of intermediate to advanced ability.
Bruce Paine''s premiere recording of the work is also available on Second Recital for Guitar.
Argentinian guitar composer Jose Luis Merlin's Suite del Recuerdo is dedicated to the memory of many thousands of "disappeared ones" from the days of the military junta in Argentina. This is very haunting, romantic music, using typical South American folk dances and melodies as the basis of five separate pieces entitled Evocation, Zamba, Chacarera, Carnavalito and Joropo.