David HarveyThe same movement: a corner of William Walton’s Bagatelle #1Prompted by a random end-of-year question from Mark Delpriora, which clearly got under my skin…16 min read·Jan 2, 2022----
David HarveyLast one to the barré: a Piazzolla challengeHaving got a couple of my lockdown challenges learnt (and on one case edited) and casting around for the next piece to try, I’ve been…7 min read·Dec 14, 2020----
David HarveyWriting for Guitar and Piano — a dozen observationsWhenever I’ve played with a pianist, audiences have always commented on how well the combination works. This is surprising — we think of…3 min read·Nov 23, 2020----
David HarveyAntonio José’s Sonata for Guitar — notes on an editionThe circumstances of the discovery, recording and publication of Antonio José’s Sonata for guitar are well documented in the two available…21 min read·Jul 12, 2020----
David HarveyScaling up — orchestral arrangements of guitar worksComposers sometimes arrange their original works for smaller forces for orchestra: one thinks in particular of Ravel’s consummate…7 min read·Aug 3, 2019----
David HarveyTranscribing, arranging, translating: reflections on Albéniz on the guitarIn the shadow of Gödel, Escher, Bach’s extraordinary intellectual and linguistic virtuosity, Douglas Hofstadter’s later work Le Ton Beau de…13 min read·Mar 24, 2018--2--2
David HarveyLooking back: 20 years of repertoire in lunchtime recitals at St Mary le BowPlaying a couple of weeks ago at St Mary le Bow in London I realised that I’d been giving lunchtime concerts in this beautiful City church…2 min read·Oct 7, 2017----
David HarveyThe Aranjuez cadenza, and why it’s (even) harder than you think…The adagio from Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez: there is surely no more widely known and popular movement in the guitar repertoire, and…3 min read·Jul 26, 2017----
David HarveyA tale of two editionsSo recently (well, not so recently) I was grumbling about the quality of a recent edition of a major guitar work, rediscovered in…10 min read·Oct 3, 2016----
David HarveyShallow Mind — programming problems from the game of Go(Some programming tasks for SC 2016 — with a hat-tip to Keith Braithwaite, who sometimes uses problems of this sort in his most stimulating…1 min read·May 12, 2016----