Rory Boyle

Programme Note

In November 2009, I revisited my Sonata for guitar (written in 1983) which never struck me as being on a grand enough scale to merit the title 'Sonata'. It seemed to be altogether a more intimate work which was in need of some pruning and revising. I kept the four-movement framework but made a number of alterations and revisions particularly in the first and third movement and gave the new piece a title which simply means "a foursome, or anything which consists of four sections" - a much more suitable soubriquet for what is essentially a suite rather than a sonata. The four movements are marked: Energico; Languido; Nervoso; and Insolente.