Segovia's amazing recording of this piece still dominates the horizon. 

Julian Bream's arrangement of the famous Purcell Rondo starts the short sequence of Baroque pieces for guitar.

A direct contemporary of J.S.Bach, Weiss was the great lutenist of his age.

A piece I've enjoyed playing for many years - John Dowland composed a number of these free form lute pieces.

Its full title is "Fantasia - which imitates the harp in the style of Ludovico". In the second section of the piece the comment against the manuscript is " this doesn't sound so bad when well played" - I hope my version is not too far from what was intended.

Someone who habitually takes on burdensome or unpleasant tasks or unreasonable amounts of work.

I feel that may be me on many occasions - God only knows why I do it.

Driving East on the A303 one morning I need some fuel. I stop at a service station and get out to fill up. A van pulls up next to me . A man gets out the passenger side says to me " What' your name?" - Thinking I've got some nutter here I say " What's your name" He replies " I'm Neil and I'm drunk" - "I'm Richard " I reply.

This is a tribute to Django's clarinet player and his brothers who provided the rhythm section for so may of his tunes.

Back to a Django piece. A reheasal recording - getting Clive to launch into one of his improvisations. 

My factually unfounded theory that the Brazilian composer based the guitar Prelude no.3 on the playing of Django Reinhardt rather than the well supported view that the piece was influenced by the music of J.S Bach.