Guitar Ensembles By Naftali Lahav

Easy arrangements for:  My Favorite Guitar Pieces: Fur Elise by Beethoven, Spanish Romance, Minuet and Bourree by Bach, Sailing, Imagine, Old Mcdonald's Farm...

Contemplation
For a guitar quartet.
This quartet is based on three different, contrasting elements. While playing, each player must be attentive to the other parts, in order to achieve unity and express a concept and statement. Thus, the piece is called Contemplation.

First Crops
A piece for recorder, guitar and harpsichord or piano.
The piece is based on a dance performed during the celebration of the first crops (BIKURIM - heb): Folk Israeli dance-song, written by Matityahu Shalem, one of the founders of new Israeli folk music. This piece begins like the original song, but later evolves into something renascent, with new motifs, new rhythms and new first crops.

Largo Espressivo
A melancholy piece for guitar and cello.
The cello sings a gloomy, beautiful melody. The guitar in its traditional role provides the harmonic stratum of the cello’s melody.

Fantasia and Passcaglia
A piece for guitar and recorder.
The piece consists of two movements. The first movement is a short Passacaglia in which each instrument presents one theme. At the center of this movement is a sort of melting pot of the two instruments and the fantasia will end with the two instruments trying to play the opening theme together. The passacaglia is based on a short Jewish motif, with the two instruments exchanging blows and caresses intermittently.

Two Etudes
Two pieces for cello and guitar.
The first etude is called ”Duet”. This is a short, expressionistic piece in which the cello and the guitar present themes and resolutions. The contrasts between the cello’s heavy (and slow) melody, and the guitar’s light (and slow) melody create a duet.

The second etude is called “MEETING”  means: encounter. The cello begins with a traditional theme of a Baroque nature. The guitar bursts in with something new, perhaps fresher, in the spirit of the 20^th century. As the piece progresses the two instruments undergo an experience together, and finally, the cello ”agrees” to play the “modern” motif presented by the guitar.

Trio
A piece for guitar, viola and flute (or violin).
In this piece each instrument has a unique character and role. What gives the piece its beauty and uniqueness is the fact that though the three instruments (roles) are combined, each retains its core and special characteristics.

Cello Sonata no. 1 by Antonio Vivaldi
This is a version for cello and guitar.
The part of the guitar was transcribed by Lahav.
The piece is written in B flat major, and the dominant tone is F. Therefore, in the guitar part of this transcription the sixth string (E) is F.
The piece requires an experienced player with excellent technique and sound. The result will justify any effort! 

Arrangements for 4 parts guitar
   Lady  Madonna  Help   While My Guitar Gently Weeps Octopus Garden - By The Beatles
   With A Little Help From My Friends   In My Life Let It Be - By The Beatles
     Somewhere Over the Rainbow     Blue Moon   
   And I Love Her - By The Beatles
   Farruca - By Baldi Olier
   Spaceships - By Berry Saharof
   Minuet - By J. S. Bach
    ANDANTE in G - By F. Carulli Trio - W. A. Mozart
   Guitar Solo - By N. Lahav
   Memories From Brazil 

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