Domenico Scarlatti: Sonata K 209 Archguitar Duo

Shostakovich: Prelude No 4 for Piano, Archguitar Duo with Amy Platt, Clarinet

Shostakovich: Prelude No 22 for Piano, Archguitar Duo

Original composition for 11 string archguitar, Bb trumpet and electric bass.
From the recording "Had Miles Met Maurice" by Blanchette's trio, "The Virtual Consort."
More info at www.archguitar.com

Blanchette: Bettina, for archuitar, trumpet and bass

07 Saltarello- anon.

Based on a seven minute sequence from Sergio Leone's masterpiece "Once Upon a Time in America," I recorded this as a duet, on alto and tenor arch guitars . The unforgettable scene where "Noodles" watches Rachel dancing through a hole in the wall, in the store room of her family's store. 
Fabulous film, Morricone's arrangement is amazing. My arrangement is a hybrid of the original for Piano and voice.
"Ampola" means "Poppy" in Spanish. Composed by Cadiz-born composer Joseph LaCalle. The lovely melody repeats once played with difficult harmonics in octaves, and concludes with the theme (played on panpipe in the original score) of the old Jewish neighborhood where the film takes place, New York's Lower East Side.

Two scenes from "Once Upon a Time in America" Peter Blanchette, archguitar

Demo of arrangement of excerpt form Bach's final masterpiece, The Art of Fugue.

DEMO: JS Bach: Art of Fugue- Contrapunctus IX. P. Blanchette, archguitars

Plúirín na mBan Donn Óg

Composed, performed and produced by archguitarist Peter Blanchett

Joyful Ride music #6

Peter Blanchette's setting of the Emily Dickinson poem, "Hope" is the thing with feathers. The vocal line is also played on the archguitar.

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all - 

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard - And sore must be the storm -
That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm - 

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all - 

I’ve heard it in the chillest land - And on the strangest Sea - 
et - never - in Extremity, It asked a crumb - of me. 

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

“Hope” is the thing with feathers -
That perches in the soul - And sings the tune without the words -
And never stops - at all -

Hope is the thing with feathers DEMO

The lovely melody re-interpreted from the realization used as the score in the opening scene from the Stanley Kubrick film, "Barry Lyndon," based on Thackeray's novel.

Women Of Ireland, Peter Blanchette, archguitar

Prelude And Fugue 2 WTC Book 2

Prelude And Fugue 9 WTC Book 1 FINAL1

Peter Blanchette is the inventor of the 11-string archguitar. His repertoire of unusual and internationally acclaimed arrangements and compositions spans from medieval to contemporary to ethnic, played in solo recital or with selected other instrumentalists to form the Virtual Consort. A recipient of the MCC Artist Grant in Music Composition, Blanchette is a veteran performer of such high profile venues as NPR's "A Prairie Home Companion," and The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. His CDs receive heavy airplay on "Sunday Baroque," "The Thistle and Shamrock," and regionally on WAMC, WNYC, and WFCR. In 2009, he was a WFCR Foundation nominee as one of the region's most valuable artists. As a composer, he has contributed to such television programs as HBO's "Sex and the City," and PBS' "Inside the Tuscan Hills." Among other film work, Blanchette worked extensively with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer William Bolcom and director John Turturro on Turturro’s film Illuminata.
In the late 1990's, the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts (MIFA) commissioned Peter Blanchette to compose scores to the Buster Keaton silent comedies “The General” and “The Navigator” which resulted in sell-out performances in RealArtWays in Hartford CT, and at Memorial Hall in Shelburne Falls, MA. In 2009 Blanchette received grants from New England Foundation for the Arts "Meet the Composer," and the Northampton Arts Council to complete the trio of Keaton's masterpieces by composing a multi-instrumental score to the 1928 comedy, Steamboat Bill, Jr. which he premiered, along with master classes in film scoring, to resounding success at the Dingle Film Festival in Ireland in September 2009, and Amherst Cinema Arts Center in October 2009.  He is also the founder and Artistic Director of the Happy Valley Guitar Orchestra, and holds a Master’s Degree in Music Composition from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts and a Bachelor’s of Arts Degree from Marlboro College in Marlboro, Vermont.


Peter Blanchette, archguitar

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