A Concert Exercise For Classical Guitar by Ferdinando Carulli from Op. 114

Carulli's didactic music was ment to be played in concert.
Op. 114 is known as a collection of Preludes, pure arpeggio exercises the name prèlude was given to.
Actually op. 114 is a broad collection of 48 Preludes an 24 Morceaux: pieces that combine the purpose of learning - the compositions are divided in 4 graded sets from beginner's level to very advanced - with real concert pieces.
Part 2 of op. 114 opens with a set of three pieces is in A-Minor (2nd level): the two preludes, one melodic, the second with arpeggios, prepare for the main piece, a Sicilienne (larghetto espressivo) with an Allegro agitato.
You could have expected to hear these three pieces in a concert performance in a bourgeoise salon in Paris in the 1820s: the student would have played the written preludes, the master would have improvised them.
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00:06 Carulli: The Real Op. 114
01:03 Prelude 1: Melodic Improvisation
01:49 Listen To Prelude 1
02:42 Interlude And Scales
03:41 Feel The Contrast F#-F
04:16 Prelude 2: Performance
05:25 Be Surprised!
06:00 Harmonic Rhythm Speeds Up
06:38 La Sicilienne: Form
07:43 Agitation Unites The 3 Movements
08:30 How Agitation Is Composed
10:00 Performance On A Period Guitar: Prèlude 1
10:44 Prèlude 2
12:24 Sicilienne - Larghetto espressivo
16:00 Allegro agitato
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[@JBert246]

Great video. I have a PDF of the original and have played through some of the pieces. I didn’t pick up that each of the sections were for different levels. And that the two preludes and the Morceau can be played together as a short suite. Makes more sense now.
Thank you for your work.

[@joachimgeissler614]

Thanks for you comment.
As said in the video, op. 114 has mostly been published as a collection of 24 progressive arpeggio-preludes. This could be due to the extensive size of the whole work.
Preludes have changed in the course of the centuries; we know that Beethoven and his contemporaries still improvised ("Freies (free) Präludieren"), and even Cadenzas in the concertos where free to be played as the soloist wanted.
That's invitation enough to play the three piece sets of op. 114 as a whole "en suite".

[@patrik3883]

I like this,do more from opus 114!

[@joachimgeissler614]

Thanks. Yes, op. 114 is a kind of all-Carulli-breakdown from beginners to advanced level players. I deserves a closer look. :-)

[@stephenelderkin5022]

Very interesting. Thank you.

[@joachimgeissler614]

Thank you. 😊

[@paolafgmedical]

A very interesting topic about a great Guitar composer! Thanks a lot Joachim Geissler!

[@joachimgeissler614]

Yeah! Thanks. 😊

[@LiamWakefield]

It's all new to me. Thanks for sharing.

[@havensf]

Bravo, thanks for the very smart work.

[@joachimgeissler614]

@@LiamWakefield more than 400 work for and with guitar... You can easily muss some of them. 😁

[@joachimgeissler614]

@@havensf thank to you, you're welcome. 😊