DEBUSSY :Petite Suite, Passepied for Guitar Duo

1．Petite Suite ［En Bateau／Cortége／Menue／Ballet］
2．Passepied

Arranged for Guitar Duo by Kazuhito YAMASHITA. Score only.

●Works
Petite suite:
Premiered on October 14, 1984 by the Kazuhito & Naoko Yamashita Guitar Duo, at the 160th Salon Concert, Nagasaki Guitar Music Academy.
Performed widely in duo concerts and other events since April 1985, such as Nagasaki Shimin Kaikan (April 15, 1984) and Shinjuku Bunka Center, Tokyo (June 27, 1984).
Recorded on April 4, 1985 at Irima Shimin Kaikan. Released by RCA Records in the album‘The Firebird’ on October 21, 1985; the printed edition of the transcription was published simultaneously. [CD]RCCD-1070, [LP]RCL-8422, [Cassette]RCT-8422.
The work was also later included in the album‘Scheherazade / Kazuhito & Naoko Yamashita Guitar Duo’BMG: 6777-2-RC (outside Japan), BMG:BVCC-2502 (in Japan).

Passepied:
Premiered on April 12, 1981 by the Kazuhito & Naoko Yamashita Guitar Duo, at the 117th Salon Concert, Nagasaki Guitar Music Academy.
Performed widely in duo concerts and other events, such as NBC Video Hall, Nagasaki (August 26, 1982), Ginza Chuo Kaikan, Tokyo (November14, 1982), Tokyo Bunka Kaikan (March 3, 1983) and The Symphony Hall, Osaka (July 29, 1983).
Recorded on August 21, 1984 at Irima Shimin Kaikan. Released by RCA Records in the album‘Passepied: Kazuhito & Naoko Yamashita’on December 16, 1982 (RCL-8348).
Performed as an encore piece in the ‘Larry Coryell & Kazuhito Yamashita’Japan tour, August 31 to September 5, 1984.
The work was also later included in the album ‘Scheherazade / Kazuhito & Naoko Yamashita Guitar Duo’ BMG: 6777-2-RC (outside Japan), BMG:BVCC-2502 (in Japan).

●Kazuhito Yamashita
Born in Nagasaki in 1961, Kazuhito Yamashita began studying the guitar at age 8 and under the continuing supervision of his father Toru and alsothe composer Kojiro Kobune.
He won the Tokyo International Guitar Competition (1976) at the age of 15 years and consecutively won historic laurels as the youngest winner, at16, in the world’s top competitions (1977), the Ramirez Guitar Concours (Spain), the Alessandria Guitar Competition (Italy), the Paris InternationalGuitar Competition.
He has released 78 titles, CD and LP. In 1980, Yamashita launched, to critical acclaim and worldwide sales, his landmark arrangement of 'Pictures atan Exhibition'. This was rapidly followed a several orchestral pieces arranged for the guitar and attracting considerable attention, such as 'Firebird'and 'Scheherazade' and, more recently, the 'New World Symphony' (Symphony No.9 from the New World). In addition, he released an acclaimedcollection of guitar pieces including 5 CDs of the J.S Bach sonatas and partitas for violin, cello, lute and flute (BWV 995-1013), transcribed for theguitar by himself, as well as essential works for the guitar such as 16 CDs of the complete Fernando Sor and works by H. Villa-Lobos: 5 Preludes and12 Etudes as well as M. Castelnuovo-Tedesco's '24 Caprichos de Goya'.
His worldwide appearances include recitals at the Vienna Musikverein ‘Great Hall’ and New York’s Lincoln Center. He has collaborated under sucheminent conductors such as Leonard Slatkin and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, and with numerous performers such as jazz guitarist Larry Coryell,James Galway (flute), Gary Karr (double bass) and the Tokyo String Quartet. From 2004, there were new directions with his children, in the‘Yamashita Family Guitar Quartet/Quintet,’ and duos, performed worldwide, with his daughters Koyumi and Kanahi.
Yamashita is an enthusiastic proponent of new works for the guitar and has given the world premier of over 60 new compositions from both Japanand overseas. In 1999, he received the National Arts Festival Grand Prize from the Japanese Government's Agency for Cultural Affairs for his CDrecording of Japanese Guitar Music 1923-1948.

English Translation. John C. Maher


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