While the repertoire for guitar is vast, the music is typically lesser-known than that of other instruments and orchestras etc. However, the music I play covers many different styles and moods from classical, to easy listening, jazz, Latin and flamenco.
Presented is a list of the typical pieces/styles of music I perform as background music for functions:
Famous Classical Pieces
• Air (from orchestral suite) – Bach
• Ave Maria – Schubert
• Ave Maria – Bach/Gounod
• Canon in D – Pachelbel
• Trumpet Voluntary – Purcell
• Jesy, Joy of Man’s Desire – Bach
• Adagio (Concierto de Aranjuez) – Rodrigo
• Air (from Water Music) – Handel
• Concerto in D, Largo – Vivaldi
• Romance (Eine Kleine Nachtmusik) – Mozart
• Sheep May Safely Graze – Bach
• Autumn (from Four Seasons) – Vivaldi
• Concerto in D, Allegro – Vivaldi
• Hornpipe (from Water Music) – Handel
• Spring (from Four Seasons) – Vivaldi
• Fur Elise – Beethoven
• Harmonious Blacksmith – Handel
• Minuet in G – Bach
• Papageno’s Theme – Mozart
• Sleepers Awake! – Bach
• Violin Concerto Theme – Beethoven
• Gymnopedie – Satie
• Habanera (from Carmen) – Bizet
• Traümerei – Schumann
• Trout Quintet – Schubert
• The Blue Danube – Strauss
• Bridal Chorus – Wagner
• Wedding March – Mendelssohn
Standards/Classics/Pop
• Can’t Help Falling in Love – Weiss/Peretti
• Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
• Classical Gas
• This is the First Day of My Life – Bright Eyes
• Comfortable – Mayer
• Fly Me to the Moon – Howard
• Georgia on my Mind – Carmichael
• Morning has Broken – Stevens
• Love Me Tender – Presley/Matson
• Misty – Garner
• Stairway to Heaven
• Unchained Melody – North
• What a Wonderful World – Weiss/Thiele
• Yesterday – Lennon/McCartney
• You Are So Beautiful – Preston/Fisher
Easy Listening/Originals
• Ballad – Gardiner
• Carrousel – Montreuil
• Hope or Ballad – Gardiner
• Night Sky – Ryan
• Freestyling – Powlesland
• Aurora – Svoboda
• Bossa on the Beach – Svoboda
• Humoresque – Benham
• Cloud Nine – Powlesland
• Impression – Wanders
• New Day – Eythorsson
• No. 1 in g minor and Irish Song– Kossenberg
• West Coast - Sanderson
South American: Latino/Brazilian
• Carnival in the Rain – Cracknell
• O Pulo do Baixo – Preiss
• Petit Air d’Argentine - Kleynjans
• Tango Souvenir, Samba Flashlights, Taberna Vieja, Jamaika Rumba, Bossa Nova Breeze, Nostalgia, Ole Matador, Nightwinds – Schwertberger
• Vals – Lindesy-Clark
• A vizinhanca – anon.
• La vem-un-anjo – anon.
• Modinha triste – anon.
• O Jacare – anon.
• Recreativo – Barrense-Dias
Spanish/Flamenco
• Alegrias – Godla
• Comanche – Baulch
• Soleares – trad.
• Pasacalle – Papas
• Malaguena – trad.
• Soledades – Papas
• Spanish Ballad – anon.
• General Flamenco style pieces
French
• Valse Triste
• Sarabande Sombre
• Chanson Douce
• Air Tendre
• Romance
• Romance Parisienne
• Mes Regrets
• Cantilène
Jazz/Blues/Spirituals
• Amazing Grace
• Steely Blue
• Baden Jazz Suite
• Blues in A
• Station to Station
• Dark Eyes
• Boogie-Woogie Blues
• Take 5
• The Battle of Jericho
*General Information:
The pieces listed here serve only as a guide as there is still much more music that can be provided for your function. If you’d like something that does not feature in this list it may be possible to have it performed as long as sufficient notice is given prior to the date of the function. In the case that a piece of music may need to be arranged, a small fee may be required.
