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Becker Lessard Guitar Duo 

Sample Program I

 

 

Prelude and Fugue…………………………………...Mario Castelnuovo Tedesco (1895-1968)

                                                                                                

 

Prayer ………………………………………………………………………………Frederic Hand (b.1947)

 

 

French Suite No. 6 in E major BWV817………………………………...J.S. Bach (1685 – 1750)

            Allemande                                                                  

            Polonaise

            Bourrée

            

 

November* (2022)…………………………………………………………………...Alan Hirsh (b.1959)

                                                                                                

 

Intermission

 

Dodecaphonica *………………………………………………………………Hayley Savage (b.1975)

            Throwing the Dice                                                    

Stalemate                                                                               

 

 

Vine on a Brick Wall * (2022/24)……………………………………….Michael Spiroff (b.1996)

Ancient Mortar                                                                      

 

La Vida Breve ……………………………………………………………Manuel De Falla (1876-1946)

                                                                                                

 

Promenade………………………………………………………………………....John Williams (b.1941)

                                                                                    

 

* Written for Becker/Lessard Duo

** Written for Harris Becker & Pasquale Bianculli


Becker-Lessard Guitar Duo

Sample Program II

 

 

Music from the English Renaissance for two lutes:

Flatt Pavan and Galliard ………………………………………………John Johnson (1545-1594)

The Frog Galliard………………………………………………………..John Dowland (1563-1626)

My Lord Willoughby’s Welcome Home

 

 

Prelude and Fugue No. 3…………………………………..Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895-1968)

 

 

Farewell (to the memory of Brigitte)……………………………………………….Sérgio Assad (b.1952)

 

 

 

Three movements from Suite I for Cello (BWV 1007)………………………J.S. Bach (1685-1750)

Prelude

Allemande

Courante

                              Laura Lessard, guitar

 

Intermission

 

 

Capricho Catalan………………………………………………………………………Isaac Albeniz (1860-1909)

Cadiz                                                               

                        

Scorpios Karma*…………………………………………………………………….Carlo Domeniconi (b. 1947)

                                                            Harris Becker, guitar

 

River Fragments…………………………………………………………………………….Stephen Goss (b. 1964)

           Waterfalls

          Deep River

           Castle in the Air

 

            Eleanor Rigby…………………………………………………….……Lennon/McCartney (arr.Leo Brouwer)

            She’s Leaving Home

 

 

*written for Harris Becker


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