Tippett: The Blue Guitar

Format: CD
Label: Nimbus
Release date: May 1995
Catalogue no: NI5390

The CD takes its name from Michael Tippett's Sonata, influenced by a poem by Wallace Stevens which was inspired by Picasso's blue period painting The Old Guitarist. Also works by Britten, R. R. Bennett and Walton as well as Lennox Berkeley's Sonatina.

• Sonatina (op. 52 part 1)

Performed by Craig Ogden (guitar)