Guru (2. Fassung)

(2003)

• concerto for guitar and ensemble
  solo guitar
  flute (doubling piccolo and alto flute)
  violoncello
  accordion
  percussion (1 player – guiro, afuché, maracas, bongos, small tamtam)
  clarinet (A)
  bassoon
  2nd guitar

• duration c. 24 min.

• world premiere on 21 September 2003 in Schweinfurt by Hubert Steiner as soloist and conducted by Joachim F.W. Schneider

• 1st Prize in the International Composing Competition Schweinfurt 2003

• published by:
  Theophilius Productions
  Order

• PDF (page 19)

(...) In Guru Schneider sets the instruments (...) confidently (...) Using a vocabulary of interwoven crescendi, glissandi, noises, scales, arpeggios and whispering, he creates surrounding sounds of great hypnotical impact (...)

Matias Wiedemann
(MAINPOST, 23 September 2003)