Works Written for Julian Bream

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This page is dedicated to compositions written for Julian Bream to perform. Early in Julian Bream's career, some of the works were written enthusiastically by composers in hopes that the gifted young performer would play them on stage. At times Julian's father, Henry, would request pieces on behalf of his son in hopes that Julian could represent contemporary European composers for the guitar and build a repertoire that was distinct from the one being played by Andrés Segovia. Once Julian was an established performer, he would, at times, politely drop hints to composers such as "Have you ever considered writing for the box?" or he would formally make a commission for a composer to write a specific guitar composition either for solo or concerto. Sometimes the pieces were written and dedicated to Julian Bream but oftentimes they were written for Bream but dedicated to someone else. Most of the pieces written for Julian Bream were performed at least once on stage and he usually reserved the right to give the first performance. Some of these pieces were not only performed by Julian Bream but were also recorded for release on one of his many LP recordings. There are a small number of pieces that Bream, for whatever reason, decided never to record or perform.


  

Terry Usher: Suite for the Spanish Guitar (1945)

  • Requested by Henry Bream 
  • Written for Julian Bream
  • The suite was published in the BMG October 1945 issue, p. ii
  • Does not appear that Julian ever played it in any of his recitals as a youth.
  • Terry Usher was the first Englishman in 30 years to compose a classical piece for guitar. Ernest Shand had been the last composer.



Ries de Hilster: Prelude (1945)

  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream.
  • Julian was supposed to have performed the piece on his first ‘trial” recital in January 1946 which was canceled (Button book). The 1945 date could likely be an error. There is more evidence to state that the piece was actually written between February and March 1947.
  • The piece was first performed at a PSG member meeting. The piece does not appear to have made it to any future recital programs after this time.
  • Published in 194_.



Terry Usher: Sonata in A (1946)

  • Requested by Henry Bream 
  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream in the early spring of 1946.
  • Terry Usher played the piece in public prior to Julian but only at two recitals attended by a very small groups of people in 1946.
  • Julian performed the Sonata at the PSG member meeting on February 15, two days prior to the official performance.
  • First official performance by Julian Bream at his first public performance - Cheltenham Art Gallery on February 17, 1947.



John W. Duarte:  Meditation on a Ground Bass, Op. 5 (1947)

  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream in 1947.
  • There is no evidence that Julian ever performed this piece in public.
  • The first known performance was by John Duarte at the Manchester Guitar Circle in the summer of 1949.
  • Published in 1949



Reginald Smith Brindle: Nocturne for Guitar Solo (1947)[0]

  • Requested by Henry Bream in 1946.
  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream
  • Julian performed at a PSG meeting and Smith Brindle happened to attend. Julian played "Nocturne for Solo Guitar".
  • Smith Brindle stated in his autobiography "He (Julian) could already play far better than anyone else I had ever heard".
  • First performance by Julian Bream at his second public performance at the Cheltenham At Gallery on January 5, 1948.
  • Reginald Smith Brindle's first published work. Published in 1948.



Terry Usher: Impromptu, Op. 2, No. 1 (1947)

  • Requested by Henry Bream 
  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream
  • Terry Usher performed the piece publicly for the members of the Manchester Guitar Circle in October 1947. [0a]
  • First performance by Julian Bream at his second public performance at the Cheltenham Art Gallery on January 5, 1948.
  • Published in April 1948 by Schott Music



Terry Usher: Minuet, Op. 2, No. 2 (1947)

  • Requested by Henry Bream 
  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream
  • Terry Usher performed the piece publicly for the members of the Manchester Guitar Circle in October 1947. [0b]
  • Published in April 1948 by Schott Music
  • There is no evidence that Julian ever performed this piece in public.



Alan Rawsthorne: a saraband in Saraband for Dead Lovers

  • Julian played a saraband based on "Les Folies d’Espagne", Op. 15 by Sor.
  • While this piece was not specifically written for Bream, he did play the first performance. [0c]



William Bardwell: Third Chinese Cantata (1953)

  • While this piece was not specifically written for Julian Bream, he did play the first performance.
  • Julian Bream played the guitar part in the "Third Chinese Cantata" at the Arts Council's concert at St. James's Square on April 6, 1954. [0d]



Terry Usher: Canzoncina, Op. 6, No. 1 (1950)

  • Requested by Henry Bream 
  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream
  • There is no evidence that Julian ever performed this piece in public.



Terry Usher: Arabesque, Op. 6, No. 2 (1950)

  • Requested by Henry Bream 
  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream
  • There is no evidence that Julian ever performed this piece in public.



Stephen Dodgson: Suite for Guitar (Prelude, Nocturne and Toccata) (1953)  [1]                                            

  • Composed at Julian Bream's request.
  • Intended to be a single piece in three movements.
  • First performance by Julian Bream was scheduled for October 14th, 1953 but was delayed due to a hand injury.
  • First performance by Julian Bream at the Wigmore Hall on September 29th, 1954.
  • While Bream played this entire piece early on.  He would also frequently play the Nocturne movement by itself.[1aa]



James Bernard: Shepherd's Warning (Song Cycle) (1953) [1a]

  • The piece was commissioned for Peter Pears and Julian Bream to play as a duo.
  • First performance by Peter Pears and Julian Bream on November 12, 1954.



Stephen Dodgson: A Pastoral Sonata (for flute, cello and guitar) (1953)

  • Composed at Julian Bream's requests.
  • Composed for flute, cello and guitar (1953/54)
  • The key to understanding the work is the designation of ‘pastoral’ suggesting sunlit fields and grazing sheep.
  • First performed in 1957 by Musica da Camera (featuring Harold Clarke, Joy Hall and Julian Bream).
  • It was performed again by Musica da Camera in 1962, John Williams was the guitarist.
  • It was revised in 1959 but not content with the guitar writing it was subsequently withdrawn.
  • In 1998, Cadenza Music prompted the composer to a major re-write.



Denis ApIvor: Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra, Op. 26 (1954) [2]

  • The distinction of being the first British guitar concerto of the post-war period.
  • The piece was written with Julian Bream in mind but it was not commissioned by Bream.
  • Premiered by Julian Bream with the BBC Scottish Orchestra, conducted by Berthold Goldschmidt on February 11th, 1958.
  • Published by Schott in 1962
  • Julian performed it on Radio Three (Glasgow) in 1968.



Malcolm Arnold: Serenade for Guitar and Strings (1955)

  • Requested by Richmond Community Orchestra.
  • Written for Julian Bream to play with the Richmond Community Orchestra.
  • Julian showed Arnold how the guitar works in reference to composition and Bream received it 3 days later.
  • Julian Bream played the first performance with Arnold conducting and Richmond Community Orchestra.
  • Julian later asked Arnold to turn it into a concerto but he declined.



Stephen Dodgson: Five Occasional Pieces (1955)

  • Written for Julian Bream.
  • Never offered for publication.



Arthur Benjamin: Mañana (1956)

  • While this piece was not specifically written for Julian Bream, he did play the first performance.
  • Julian Bream plays the guitar in the first performance of "Mañana" on February 1, 1956 for the opera Mañana by Arthur Benjamin.
  • Mañana was the first opera made for television commissioned by the BBC.



Stephen Dodgson: Concerto No. 1 for Guitar and Orchestra (1956) [3]

  • Written for Julian Bream.
  • First performance was on a broadcast by 17-year-old John Williams with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr.
  • First recorded by John Williams



Reginald Smith Brindle: El Polifemo de Oro (1956)

  • Four movements: Ben adagio - Allegretto - Largo - Ritmico e vivo 
  • The piece was based on four poems of Ernesto Federico García Lorca.
  • The work was hardly finished when Julian Bream visited him in Florence and asked for a new piece that he could perform.
  • Smith Brindle was initially hesitant to show him the piece. He did not feel that Bream at 23 was mature enough.
  • Julian Bream played on a BBC broadcast and at the Aldeburgh Festival in late 1958.
  • Published initially by Aldo Bruzzichelli in 1962 and then later Schott & Co. published a revised edition 1963.
  • The composer feels that the best revision was written by Jan Erik Pettersen in Norway.
  • Recorded for 20th Century Guitar



Roberto Gerhard: Fantasia (1957)

  • Requested by Julian Bream,
  • The initial draft was composed in 1957. It is written as an interlude for a song cycle Cantares for Pears and Bream.
  • Bream had requested a "modernist" composition and the initial piece composed by Gerhard did not have the stylings he was looking for. 
  • The piece was subsequently revised.



Roberto Gerhard: Cantares (1957)

  • Composed for Peter Pears and Julian Bream and was to include the Fantasia as an interlude (see "Roberto Gerhard: Fantasia" above).



Reginald Smith Brindle: Ten-String Music (for guitar and cello) (1957)

  • Commissioned by Julian Bream to play with his romantic interest Amaryllis Fleming, a promising young cello player.
  • Dedicated to Julian Bream and Amaryllis Fleming
  • First performance on a BBC broadcast on the 25th of March 1959.
  • Schott published it in 1978



Reginald Smith Brindle: Five Sketches (for guitar and violin) (1957)

  • Commissioned by Julian Bream


Lennox Berkeley: Sonatina, Op. 52, no. 1 (1957)

  • Commissioned by the BBC
  • Recorded on The Art of Julian Bream
  • First performance at Morley College, London, on March 9, 1958.
  • This piece is incorrectly named "Sonatina, Op. 51" in some publications and recordings.



Benjamin Britten: Songs from the Chinese for high voice and guitar, Op. 58 (1957) 

  • Written for Peter Pears and Julian Bream duo
  • Recorded on Music for Voice and Guitar



Hans Werner Henze: Drei Tentos (Kammermusik 1958) [4]

  • These interludes are drawn from the Kammermusik, written in 1958, for tenor, guitar and eight other instruments.
  • The original vocal composition, Kammermusik, was dedicated to Benjamin Britten.
  • Premiered by the tenor Peter Pears, the guitarist Julian Bream and an eight-member chamber ensemble. Hamburg 1958
  • The composition is based on texts by the poet Friedrich Hölderlin.                                             
  • Recorded on 20th Century Guitar  (interludes drawn from the Kammermusik)



Denis ApIvor: Variations for Guitar, Op. 29 (1958) [5]

  • Bream commissioned the piece in 1958 after having premiered the "Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra, Op. 26" that year.
  • Bream never performed the Variations for Guitar, Op. 29.
  • Schott published it in 1960 but that edition is out of print.
  • Isabel Smith premiered the piece 10 years later on the 8th of April 1968 at the Wigmore Hall.



Tristram Cary: Sonata (1959)



Malcolm Arnold: Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 67 (1959).  

  • Bream commissioned the piece in 1958 for £30
  • The central movement is a homage to guitarist Django Reinhardt.  
  • The last movement relates to lute playing – it’s written in various modes, some transposed.
  • The one non-modal section was named by Malcolm as the "Aldeburgh mode" because of the first performance
  • First performance by Julian and Arnold at the Aldeburgh Festival.      
  • Recorded on Guitar Concertos
  • Recorded on To the Edge of Dream



William Walton: Anon. in Love (1960)                                                                                  

  • Recorded on Music for Voice and Guitar
  • Written for Pears and Bream
  • Dedicated to Lilias Sheepshanks


Richard Rodney Bennett: Lament (1960) 



Michael Tippett: Songs for Achilles (1961)                                                                                      

  • Written for Peter Pears and Julian Bream.
  • First performance by Peter Pears and Julian Bream at Aldeburgh Festival June 1961

       


Benjamin Britten: Folksong Arrangements Vol. 6 (1961)

  • Written for Peter Pears and Julian Bream duo                                                   
  • Recorded on Music for Voice and Guitar



Thea Musgrave: Sir Patrick Spens(1961)

  • Written for Peter Pears and Julian Bream duo 



Benjamin Britten: Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op. 70 (1963) [6]

  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream
  • First performance by Julian Bream at the Aldeburgh Festival in 1964.                                       
  • Recorded on 20th Century Guitar
  • Recorded on Nocturnal
  • October performance release on the CD Julian Bream, A Tribute, Vol. 2, 2021 on the DOREMI label.



Berkeley, Lennox: Songs of the Half-Light (1964)

  • Commissioned by and dedicated to Peter Pears
  • Guitar part edited and fingered by Julian Bream
  • First performance by Peter Pears and Julian Bream at the Aldeburgh Festival on June 22, 1965. 
  • The Aldeburgh premiere performance release on the CD Julian Bream, A Tribute, Vol. 2, 2021 on the DOREMI label.



Carey Blyton: The Bream, Op. 51  (1967) [7]

  • Carey Blyton’s first piece for guitar.
  • Requested by Julian Bream. Blyton used the freshwater fish, a Bream, in a slow-moving stream as inspiration.
  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream (but apparently never performed publicly by him).
  • "The Bream" was entered for the 10th International Guitar Competition (1968) of ORTF, Paris.
  • Although no prizes were awarded by the jury, "The Bream" was given "la première mention".
  • First performance by Brazilian guitarist Turibio Santos at the Concours International de Guitare, Paris, October 17th, 1970.
  • First UK performance was given by Turibio Santos in 1970, in the Purcell Room, London on November 2nd 1970.



Richard Rodney Bennett: Five Impromptus (1968)                                                            

  • Recorded on Dedication



Tom Eastwood: Ballade-Phantasy (1968)




John W. Duarte: Five Quiet Songs, op.37 (1968)

  • Dedicated to Peter Pears and Julian Bream



Thomas Wilson: Soliloquy (1969) [8]

  • Commissioned by Glasgow Master Concerts for Julian Bream
  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream
  • Premiered by Julian Bream at Queen Elizabeth Hall, London on February 22, 1970.



Peter Racine Fricker: Paseo, Op. 61 (1969)



Reginald Smith Brindle: Variants on two themes of J. S. Bach (1970) [8b]

  • Commissioned by the Guild for the Promotion of Welsh Music. Funds provided by the Welsh Arts Council.
  • Dedicated to Julian Bream.
  • Published in 1973.



Richard Rodney Bennett: Guitar Concerto (1970)   

  • A piece written for and completed by Julian Bream after the composer's death.                                                           
  • Recorded on Julian Bream 70's  



Malcolm Arnold: Fantasy, Op. 107 (1971)

  • The movements are prelude, scherzo, arias, fughetta, march and postlude.
  • Written for and dedicated to Julian Bream
  • Broadcast performance for lunchtime concert series at St John's Smith Square in 1975.
  • The broadcast above is available on Youtube - excellent recording of the broadcast. Youtube link.



Alan Rawsthorne: Elegy (1971)                                                                                                

  • Recorded on Julian Bream 70's



William Walton: Five Bagatelles (1972)                                                                                

  • Written for Julian Bream
  • Dedicated to Malcolm Arnold
  • Recorded on Julian Bream 70's
  • Recorded on Dedication



Stephen Dodgson: Quintet for guitar and string quartet (1973) [9]

  • It consists of three movements: Overture, Scherzo and Chaconne.
  • Commissioned by the University of Lancaster for Julian Bream and the Sartori Quartet.



David Lord: Soliloquy (1973)

  • Commissioned by Julian Bream
  • First performance by Julian Bream



Humphrey Searle: Five (1974)

  • Written and dedicated to Julian Bream
  • First performance at Queen Elizabeth Hall in January 1975
  • First broadcast performance for lunchtime concert series at St John's Smith Square in 1975.
  • The broadcast above is available on Youtube - an excellent recording of the broadcast. Youtube link.



Lennox Berkeley: Guitar Concerto, Op. 88 (1974)                                                              

  • Recorded on Rodrigo and Berkeley



Hans Werner Henze: Royal Winter Music (first sonata, 1976) [10]

  • Written for Julian Bream
  • In the form of a multi-movement sonata lasting nearly half an hour.
  • Each movement is based on a Shakespearean character.   
  • Premiered by Julian Bream on September 10, 1976, at the Berliner Festwoche in Berlin and in London 1976.   
  • Recorded on Dedication     

             

Giles Swayne: Suite, Op. 21 (1976)

  • Inspired by the sadness of Benjamin Britten's illness.
  • Edited by Julian Bream



Hans Werner Henze: Royal Winter Music (second sonata, 1980)

  • Written for Julian Bream



Peter Maxwell Davies: Hill Runes (1981)

  • Written for Julian Bream
  • Premiered at the opening concert of the Dartington Summer School of Music in 1981.
  • Consists of five interlinked movements played without a break.
  • Recorded on Dedication



Michael Berkeley: Sonata in One Movement (1982)

  • First performance at the Edinburgh Festival in 1982 (YouTube)
  • Played it live throughout an Australian tour in 1983


Michael Berkeley: Impromptu (1983)

  • Written for Julian on the day of his 50th birthday celebration (July 15, 1983) when he couldn't find a suitable birthday card.
  • M.B. "The Impromptu I created for Julian's birthday (a little vignette based on the musical letters in his name - B E and A) makes the most of his lyrical gifts and the melody heard in the treble part of the instrument reappears in the bass register. He later wrote to me to say that it would make a good encore piece"


Richard Rodney Bennett: Sonata (1983)

  • Written for Julian Bream
  • First performance at the Cheltenham Festival in July 1985. (11)
  • Recorded for BBC Radio 3 in the chapel at Wardour Castle, Wiltshire on the 8th of December 1986.
  • The 1986 BBC recording was released as a film extra for the documentary Julian Bream: My Life in Music (2006).



Michael Tippett: The Blue Guitar (1984)

  • Written for Julian Bream                                                                              
  • Dedicated "to the memory of Calvin Simmons".
  • First performance - Pasadena, California 11-09-83.



Giles Swayne: Solo for Guitar, Op. 42 (1986, rev. 1995)

  • Commissioned by Julian Bream and written in 1986.
  • First performed by Gary Ryan on 14th October 1996 at the Purcell Room celebrating Giles Swayne’s fiftieth birthday.



Leo Brouwer: Concerto elegiaco (Guitar Concerto No. 3) (1986)                                    

  • Recorded on Guitar Concertos: Brouwer and Rodrigo



Toru Takemitsu: All in Twilight (1987)

  • Recorded on Nocturnal



Leo Brouwer: Sonata (1990)



Peter Maxwell Davies: Sonata (1990)1984?



Toru Takemitsu: Muir Woods (In the Woods) (1996)



Leo Brouwer: Ars Combinatoria (Sonata No. 5) (2013)

  • Commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust
  • World premiere 4th December 2014 at St John’s, Smith Square, London, performed by Andrey Lebedev



Harrison Birtwistle: Construction with Guitar Player: Beyond the White Hand (2013)

  • Commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust
  • World premiere 4th December 2014 at St John’s, Smith Square, London, performed by Andrey Lebedev



Julian Anderson: Catalan Peasant with Guitar (2015)

  • Commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust
  • World premiere 21st November 2015 at the Wigmore Hall, London,  performed by Laura Snowden



Ollie Mustonen: Sonata No 2 for solo guitar (2017)

  • Commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust
  • World premiere 21st November 2017 at Wigmore Hall, London, performed by Laura Snowden



Edward Cowie: Streams and Variations (2019)

  • Commissioned by the Julian Bream Trust
  • Inspired by the River Sem that runs through the county of Wiltshire near Broad Oak, Julian Bream's old home.
  • written with eight variations in the "form of pool and 'run' with four of each" EC
  • World premiere 21st November 2019 at Wigmore Hall, London, performed by Saki Kato




INDEX  (alphabetical order of Composer's last name)

Anderson, Julian: Catalan Peasant with Guitar (2015)

ApIvor, Denis: Concertino for Guitar and Orchestra , Op. 26 (1954)

ApIvor, Denis: Variations for Guitar, Op. 29 (1958)

Arnold, Malcolm: Concerto for Guitar and Chamber Orchestra, Op. 67 (1959)

Arnold, Malcolm: Fantasy, Op. 107 (1971)

Arnold, Malcolm: Serenade for Guitar and Strings (1955)

Bennett, Richard Rodney: Five Impromptus (1968)

Bennett, Richard Rodney: Guitar Concerto (1970)

Richard Rodney Bennett: Lament (1960) 

Bennett, Richard Rodney: Sonata (1983)

Berkeley, Lennox: Guitar Concerto, Op. 88 (1974)

Berkeley, Lennox: Sonatina, op. 52, no. 1 (1957)

Berkeley, Lennox: Songs of the Half-Light (1964)

Berkeley, Michael: Impromptu (1983)

Berkeley, Michael: Sonata in One Movement (1982)

Bernard, James: Shepherd's Warning (1954)

Birtwistle, Harrison: Construction with Guitar Player: Beyond the White Hand (2013)

Blyton, Carey: The Bream, Op. 51  (1967)

Britten, Benjamin: Folksong Arrangements Vol. 6 (1961)

Britten, Benjamin: Nocturnal after John Dowland, Op. 70 (1963)

Britten, Benjamin: Songs from the Chinese for high voice and guitar, Op. 58 (1957)

Brouwer, Leo: Ars Combinatoria (Sonata No. 5) (2013)

Brouwer, Leo: Concerto elegiaco (Guitar Concerto No. 3) (1986)

Brouwer, Leo: Sonata (1990)

Cary, Tristram: Sonata (1959)

Cowie, Edward: Streams and Variations (2019)

Davies, Peter Maxwell: Hill Runes (1981)

Davies, Peter Maxwell: Sonata (1990)

Dodgson, Stephen: Concerto No. 1 for Guitar and Orchestra (1956)

Dodgson, Stephen: Prelude, Nocturne and Toccata (1953)

Dodgson, Stephen: Quintet for guitar and string quartet (1973)

Duarte, John W.: Five Quiet Songs, op.37 (1968)

Duarte, John W.: Meditation on a Ground Bass, Op. 5

Eastwood, Tom: Ballade-Phantasy (1968)
Fricker, Peter Racine: Paseo, Op. 61 (1969)

Henze, Hans Werner: Drei Tentos (Kammermusik 1958)

Henze, Hans Werner: Royal Winter Music (first sonata, 1976)

Henze, Hans Werner: Royal Winter Music (second sonata, 1980)

Hilster, Ries de: Prelude (1945)

Lord, David: Soliloquy (1973)

Mustonen, Ollie: Sonata No 2 for solo guitar (2017)

Rawsthorne, Alan: Elegy (1971)

Searle, Humphrey: Five (1974)

Smith Brindle, Reginald: El Polifemo de Oro (1956)

Smith Brindle, Reginald: Nocturne for Guitar Solo (1946)

Smith Brindle, Reginald: Variants on two themes of J. S. Bach (1970)

Swayne, Giles: Solo for Guitar, Op. 42 (1986, rev. 1995)

Swayne, Giles: Suite, Op. 21 (1976)

Takemitsu, Toru: All in Twilight (1987)

Takemitsu, Toru: Muir Woods (In the Woods) (1996)

Tippett, Michael: The Blue Guitar (1984)

Tippett, Michael: Songs for Achilles

Usher, Terry: Arabesque, Op. 6, No. 2 (1950)

Usher, Terry: Canzoncina, Op. 6, No. 2 (1950)

Usher, Terry: Impromptu, Op. 2, No. 1 (1947)

Usher, Terry: Minuet, Op. 2, No. 2 (1947)

Usher, Terry: Sonata in A (1946)

Usher, Terry: Suite for the Spanish Guitar (1945)

Walton, William: Anon. in Love (1960)

Walton, William: Five Bagatelles (1972)

Wilson, Thomas: Soliloquy (1969)




Endnotes:

0a and 0b. Wilfred M. Appleby, “The Guitar in Britain”, Bulletin of the Philharmonic Society of Guitarist, No. 14, November - December 1947, p. 3.

0c. A.P. Sharpe "By the Way", BMG, April 1954, p. 184; Gerd-Michael Dausend "Julian Bream spielt nach 1945 komponierte Gitarrenmusik", EGTA Journal, Ausgabe 3 . 11/2017, p. 32.

0. Graham Wade, Reginald Smith Brindle, Complete Works for Solo Guitar 1 - liner notes, NAXOS. 2023
1. Richard Provost, "The guitar Music of Stephen Dodgson (with the help of S. Dodgson)", Soundboard (GFA) 1979, p. 3; Lewis Foreman, "Stephen Dodgson: Composer hailed for his guitar works", Independent: News, Obituaries, May 1, 2013. Need to add Guitar News article

1a. Julian Bream A Tribute, Vol. 2 CD liner notes; James Renwick, Peter and Julian: An Analysis of Pears and Bream’s
Tenor-Guitar Performances
, 2020.
2. Denis ApIvor’s Variations, OP. 29: Introduction to the Guitar Music of a Pioneering British Modernist by Mark Marrington, Soundboard (GFA) Vol. 42, No. 3, p. 26-27. Link to article.
3. Richard Provost, "The guitar Music of Stephen Dodgson (with the help of S. Dodgson)", Soundboard (GFA) 1979, p. 4; Lewis Foreman, "Stephen Dodgson: Composer hailed for his guitar works", Independent: News, Obituaries, May 1, 2013. Need to add Guitar News article
4. John Wager-Schneider, "The Contemporary Guitar (Hans Werner Henze)", Soundboard (GFA)1980, p. 173.
5. Mark Marrington, "Denis ApIvor’s Variations, OP. 29: Introduction to the Guitar Music of a Pioneering British Modernist", Soundboard (GFA) Vol. 42, No. 3, p. 26-27. Link to article.
6. Jack Deither, "On Guitar and Lute - The Art of Julian Bream," American Record Guide (July 1968): p. 1022-2. Philip Pivovar, "Benjamin Britten's Style as exemplified in the Nocturnal, Op. 70", Soundboard (GFA)1980, p. 51-55, 91.
7?. Wilfred M. Appleby, "Julian Bream", Guitar News 1972, p.
8. Wilfred M. Appleby, "Julian Bream", Guitar News January/March 1970, p. 11

8b. Graham Wade, Reginald Smith Brindle, Complete Works for Solo Guitar 1 - liner notes, NAXOS. 2023
9. Richard Provost, "The guitar Music of Stephen Dodgson (with the help of S. Dodgson)", Soundboard (GFA) 1979, p. 4
10. The Contemporary Guitar (Hans Werner Henze) by John Wager-Schneider, Soundboard (GFA)1980, p. 174.

11. Lance Bosman, "Line Drawings: Reflections on Richard Rodney Bennett's "Sonata for Guitar", Guitar International, November 1985, p. 16.