Peter Nagtzaam : Floating : Bergmann

Peter Nagtzaam

Bergmann Edition: 8 pages

Dutch guitarist/composer Peter Nagtzaam has produced here a quite short but very detailed little piece that manages to sound quite different from a lot of other pieces whilst still retaining its relatively friendly harmonic style.

Set in E Major in 4/4 it relies quite a lot on leaving notes ringing whilst continuing with other notes , so that one has to be quite careful where one fingers certain parts to enable this effect to work properly.

I must be honest and say that the thematic material didn’t particularly strike me as wonderful, and the entire piece seemed not to have any themes repeated (unless I missed them of course) , but nevertheless it is a nice emotional  little work that you can find a performance of on YouTube, should you be interested to investigate further.

Chris Dumigan