“Remarkably lovely and beautifully realized in the artist’s transcription; a marvelous racket!” – Soundboard (John. Cage. Guitar. – Bacchanale)
Aaron's Store: Albums, Scores, T-shirts, Mugs
Mystic Flute, Op. 22 by Alan Hovhaness
Arranged by Aaron Larget-Caplan
Published by Edition Peters
A sweet miniature composed for solo piano in 1937, Mystic Flute consists of two voices: a simple melody in the harmonic Minor scale balanced by an ostinato accompaniment in 7/8 meter that gives the work a hypnotic and ceremonial spirit. This arrangement was premiered on July 29, 2018 at the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Spanish Gems
Aaron's 11th solo studio album. Featuring 10 works by Albániz, Sanz, Tárrega, Torroba and more this album has something to delight every Spanish classical guitar lover.
CDs are available via Bandcamp.
Reviews, videos, and track info:
https://alcguitar.com/album-spanish-gems.php
Released March 1, 2024 • Tiger Turn (888-11).
Guitarist: Just add espresso T-Shirt
$17.20
Aaron Larget-Caplan's 'Guitarist: Just add espresso' T-Shirt. Unisex, 100% cotton.
I Practice, therefore I am T-Shirt
$17.20
Aaron Larget-Caplan's I Practice, therefore I am. T-Shirt. Unisex, 100% cotton.
New Lullaby Project Unisex Ultra Cotton Tee
$17.42
New Lullaby Project unisex 100% cotton. Design by Aaron Larget-Caplan
I practice, therefore I am - Ceramic Mug
$7.33
I practice, therefore I am ceramic coffee mug designed by Aaron Larget-Capan. It’s BPA and Lead-free, microwave & dishwasher-safe in 11-ounce size.
Perfect by the side of the practicing musician.
New Lullaby Project Ceramic Mug
$8.00
New Lullaby Project mug. It’s BPA and Lead-free, microwave & dishwasher-safe, in 11-ounce size. The perfect gift for Dreamers, and coffee, tea, and chocolate lovers.
New Lullaby Project Baby Beanie
$21.15
The New Lullaby Project music and now baby beanie hat is an ideal inclusion for colder months. Designed with comfort and good dreams in mind. Sized for infants up to roughly 6 months old.
Spanish Candy
Aaron Larget-Caplan's 10th solo album, features works by Isaac Albéniz and Francisco Tarrega, and flamenco pieces by Esteban de Sanlúcar, and Pascual Marquina.
Listen, download, watch, and read about SPANISH CANDY.
Released May 26, 2023 • Tiger Turn.
A limited number of autographed CDs are available through Bandcamp.
honey cadence - 6 meditations for guitar
honey cadence is the first collection of Aaron's solos to be available. Published in June 2022 by the American Composers Alliance (ACA),
Physical scores and PDFs (collection & individual) are available from the ACA.
Autographed copies only via Bandcamp.
Review This is Classical Guitar • Fanfare
Bacchanale: for two prepared guitars.
"In this marvelous arrangement of Bacchanale, for two prepared guitars, the raucous sounds of the instruments work very well for this exuberant work"
~ American Record Guide
12 pages. Score includes preparation instructions and images.
Published October 2021 by Edition Peters.
God's Time: Music of J.S. Bach on Guitar
16 pieces by J.S. Bach:
Prelude-Fugue-Allegro, Chromatic Fantasy, Six Small Preludes and A Little Fugue, WTC Preldues, and the insiration for the album title God's Time is the Very Best Time, BWV 106.
September 28, 2022 on Tiger Turn
"If God can make time for this, surely you can too." ~Fanfare
God's Time page (links, reviews, videos and Liner Notes): https://alcguitar.com/godstime.php
Read about God's Time: http://alcguitar.com/blog/new-album-gods-time/
A limited number of autographed CDs are available via Bandcamp.
honey cadence
Six meditative guitar solos written and performed by Aaron Larget-Caplan. Over 3 million streams!
MUSIC: sweet nuance, honey cadence, moving still, minding play, hidden anticipation, slight nuance
April 29, 2022 on Tiger Turn
Videos: sweet nuance (GSI)
Official sweet nuance
TEDx Walden Pond - moving still
Scores published by the American Composers Alliance (above)
CDs available via Bandcamp
A Guitar Holiday
9 classic holiday songs beautifully arranged for classical guitar.
November 12, 2021 on Tiger Turn
*Digital Only
Fanlink HERE
SONGS: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Angels We Have Heard on High, Greensleeves, Stille Nacht, O Come O Come Emmanuel, Away in a Manger, The First Noel, Deck the Halls, and Silent Night
*Over 2 million streams!
DRIFTING, Volume 3 of the New Lullaby Project.
The 3rd album dedicated to compositions written for the New Lullaby Project by 15 composer.
June 4, 2021 on Stone Records Limited
COMPOSERS: Tim Pence, Anthony R. Green, Frank E. Warren, Ricardo Odriozola, Stefanie Lubkowski, Charles Turner, Jacob Mashak, Ian Wiese, Scott Scharf, John McDonald, Boris Rivchun, Michael J. Veloso, Francine Trester, Gerard Drozd, Martin Max Schreiner.
HUSHED – Scores of the New Lullaby Project, Vol. 2
Sixteen 21st-century works for solo guitar written for the New Lullaby Project. Commissioned, curated, and edited by Aaron Larget-Caplan.
Published in June 2021 by the American Composers Alliance. PDFs available.
COMPOSERS: Trester, Green, Turner, Lubkowski, Shatzer, Ueno, Dalton, Mashak, McDonald, Schreiner, Schuttenhelm, Job, Feist, Stolz, Éon.
*All scores recorded by Aaron on New Lullaby, Legend of Hagoromo, Nights Transfigured, Drifting
Review in Soundboard • This is Classical Guitar
NIGHTS TRANSFIGURED – Scores of the New Lullaby Project, Vol. 1
Fifteen 21st-century works for solo guitar written for the New Lullaby Project. Commissioned, curated, and edited by Aaron Larget-Caplan.
Published January 2021 by the American Composers Alliance. PDFs available.
*Won three national publishing Revere Awards!
COMPOSERS: Trester, Castilla-Ávila, Read, Shende, Julian, Fletcher, McMullin, Wheeler, Cooman, McDonald, Leisner, Schwartz, Boyd, Spaneas, Oliver.
*All scores recorded by Aaron on New Lullaby & Nights Transfigured
Review in Soundboard
Nights Transfigured, Vol. 2 of the New Lullaby Project
The 2nd album dedicated to compositions written for the New Lullaby Project by 14 composer. Click on Bandcamp for physical orders and digital downloads, as well as album and composer information. Shatzer, Castilla-Ávila, Read, Julien, Shende, Trester, Éon, Fletcher, Dalton, McMullin, Schuttenhelm, Boy, Spaneas, Oliver.
"From colourful sensitive phrasing to virtuosic execution of soothing new music textures, Aaron Larget-Caplan’s playing is exquisite. Highly recommended." ~ This is Classical Guitar (Canada)
Stone Records Limited August 2021
COMPOSERS: Garrett Ian Shatzer, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, Thomas L. Read, Patricia Julien, Vineet Shende, Alan Fletcher, Roger Éon, David McMullin, Francine Trester, James Dalton, Demetrius Spaneas, Stephanie Ann Boyd, Thomas Schuttenhelm, Barnaby Oliver
España Cañi - Paso Doble (2020) Arr. by Aaron Larget-Caplan
Sheet music for classical guitar. Click below for score previews
* For physical scores outside the US, Canada, and Mexico, select Printed - International.
John. Cage. Guitar.
The first recordings on CG dedicated to the music of John Cage and to be estate sanctioned. All arrangements published by Edition Peters.
Lyrical music for Cage's early & mid career arranged for guitar solo, violin-guitar and prepared guitar duo. Guests Sharan Leventhal & Adam Levin
2018 on Stone Records Limited
COMPOSITIONS: A Room, Three Easy Pieces, Chess Pieces, Dream, In A Landscape, Six Melodies (vl-gtr), Bacchanale (2 prepared gtrs)
What Story? Music of Thomas L. Read
2018 by the American Composers Alliance
Concert Champêtre for cello & guitar Rafael Popper-Keizer & Aaron Larget-Caplan
Score: Cage - Piano Music Arranged for Guitar
COMPOSITIONS: Three Easy Pieces, A Room, Chess Pieces, Dream, In A Landscape
Published 2017 by Edition Peters, Arrangements by Aaron Larget-Caplan
"I would strongly advocate these compositions to be performed by young guitarists before they start working on any other contemporary composers." (Soundboard)
Video Preview • This is Classical Guitar Reveiw
Score: Six Melodies by John Cage
Violin & Guitar, arranged by Aaron Larget-Caplan
Published 2016 by Edition Peters, Arrangements by Aaron Larget-Caplan
“The releasing of such works was very important for the development of the modern guitar play. The transcription of Larget-Caplan has ennobled our instrument.” (Six Strings of the world, Poland)
The Legend of Hagoromo
2015 on Stone Records Limited (UK)
Comprising an intoxicating mixture of Japanese and American music, this fusion-recital is brilliantly conceived and performed by the young American virtuoso. Includes 4 premieres and 2 New Lullabies.
"The Legend of Hagoromo is eclectic and endlessly rewarding release.” ~ Classical Guitar
COMPOSES: Leo Brouwer, Keigo Fujii, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Toru Takemitsu, Ken Ueno, Kota Nakamura, Martin Max Schreiner
New Lullaby
May 2010 Six String Sound • Digital Release August 6, 2021 on Stone Records Limited
"This is not some godawful Classics-for-Baby CD"
– Fanfare
The 1st album dedicated to pieces written for the New Lullaby Project. 14 compositions by 13 American composers in the genre of the lullaby .
COMPOSERS: Lynn Job, Jonathan Feist, Francine Trester, Scott Wheeler, Kevin Siegfried, Mark Small, Nolan Stolz, Carson Cooman, John McDonald, David Vayo, David Leisner, Eric Schwartz, Ryan Vigil
Tracing a wheel on water
January 2006 Six String Sound• Digital Release August 6, 2021 on Stone Records Limited
Aaron's debut album with 12 tracks by compsers from Japan, Israel, Cuba, Paraguay, France, Spain and the United States. Includes three world premieres.
COMPOSERS: Lior Navok, Toru Takemitsu, Daniel Pinkham, Leo Brouwer, Kevin Siegfried, Emilio Pujol, Agustin Barrios, Roland Dyens
Passacaglia (2021)
A single written by UK composer David Warin Solomons
Arraneged and performed by Aaron Larget-Caplan
Live Video (not the same audio)
Perceptions (2013)
Navona Records
CAPRICCI by Thomas L. Read - World Premiere Guitar & String Quartet.
Summertime (2011)
Solo
Summertime - Written by George Gershwin, arranged by Toru Takemitsu
* Digital only
Vientos (2010)
Albany Records
Vientos - Music by Hayg Boyadjian
Mi Tango for solo guitar
"Stunningly played"
– Fanfare
Classic American Songs (2011)
Duo & Trio
Donald Wilkinson, baritone. Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
*Out of Print
Diablo y Tango (2008)
Duo – Limited Edition
Exotic Love Songs & Dances for violin & guitar.
COMPOSERS: Manuel De Falla and Astor Piazzolla.
*Digital only
Spanish Gems
Aaron's 11th solo studio album. Featuring 10 works by Albániz, Sanz, Tárrega, Torroba and more this album has something to delight every Spanish classical guitar lover.
CDs are available via Bandcamp.
Reviews, videos, and track info:
https://alcguitar.com/album-spanish-gems.php
Released March 1, 2024 • Tiger Turn (888-11).
Spanish Candy
Aaron Larget-Caplan's 10th solo album, features works by Isaac Albéniz and Francisco Tarrega, and flamenco pieces by Esteban de Sanlúcar, and Pascual Marquina.
Listen, download, watch, and read about SPANISH CANDY.
Released May 26, 2023 • Tiger Turn.
A limited number of autographed CDs are available through Bandcamp.
honey cadence - 6 meditations for guitar
honey cadence is the first collection of Aaron's solos to be available. Published in June 2022 by the American Composers Alliance (ACA),
Physical scores and PDFs (collection & individual) are available from the ACA.
Autographed copies only via Bandcamp.
Review This is Classical Guitar • Fanfare
God's Time: Music of J.S. Bach on Guitar
16 pieces by J.S. Bach:
Prelude-Fugue-Allegro, Chromatic Fantasy, Six Small Preludes and A Little Fugue, WTC Preldues, and the insiration for the album title God's Time is the Very Best Time, BWV 106.
September 28, 2022 on Tiger Turn
"If God can make time for this, surely you can too." ~Fanfare
God's Time page (links, reviews, videos and Liner Notes): https://alcguitar.com/godstime.php
Read about God's Time: http://alcguitar.com/blog/new-album-gods-time/
A limited number of autographed CDs are available via Bandcamp.
honey cadence
Six meditative guitar solos written and performed by Aaron Larget-Caplan. Over 3 million streams!
MUSIC: sweet nuance, honey cadence, moving still, minding play, hidden anticipation, slight nuance
April 29, 2022 on Tiger Turn
Videos: sweet nuance (GSI)
Official sweet nuance
TEDx Walden Pond - moving still
Scores published by the American Composers Alliance (above)
CDs available via Bandcamp
A Guitar Holiday
9 classic holiday songs beautifully arranged for classical guitar.
November 12, 2021 on Tiger Turn
*Digital Only
Fanlink HERE
SONGS: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, Angels We Have Heard on High, Greensleeves, Stille Nacht, O Come O Come Emmanuel, Away in a Manger, The First Noel, Deck the Halls, and Silent Night
*Over 2 million streams!
DRIFTING, Volume 3 of the New Lullaby Project.
The 3rd album dedicated to compositions written for the New Lullaby Project by 15 composer.
June 4, 2021 on Stone Records Limited
COMPOSERS: Tim Pence, Anthony R. Green, Frank E. Warren, Ricardo Odriozola, Stefanie Lubkowski, Charles Turner, Jacob Mashak, Ian Wiese, Scott Scharf, John McDonald, Boris Rivchun, Michael J. Veloso, Francine Trester, Gerard Drozd, Martin Max Schreiner.
Nights Transfigured, Vol. 2 of the New Lullaby Project
The 2nd album dedicated to compositions written for the New Lullaby Project by 14 composer. Click on Bandcamp for physical orders and digital downloads, as well as album and composer information. Shatzer, Castilla-Ávila, Read, Julien, Shende, Trester, Éon, Fletcher, Dalton, McMullin, Schuttenhelm, Boy, Spaneas, Oliver.
"From colourful sensitive phrasing to virtuosic execution of soothing new music textures, Aaron Larget-Caplan’s playing is exquisite. Highly recommended." ~ This is Classical Guitar (Canada)
Stone Records Limited August 2021
COMPOSERS: Garrett Ian Shatzer, Agustín Castilla-Ávila, Thomas L. Read, Patricia Julien, Vineet Shende, Alan Fletcher, Roger Éon, David McMullin, Francine Trester, James Dalton, Demetrius Spaneas, Stephanie Ann Boyd, Thomas Schuttenhelm, Barnaby Oliver
John. Cage. Guitar.
The first recordings on CG dedicated to the music of John Cage and to be estate sanctioned. All arrangements published by Edition Peters.
Lyrical music for Cage's early & mid career arranged for guitar solo, violin-guitar and prepared guitar duo. Guests Sharan Leventhal & Adam Levin
2018 on Stone Records Limited
COMPOSITIONS: A Room, Three Easy Pieces, Chess Pieces, Dream, In A Landscape, Six Melodies (vl-gtr), Bacchanale (2 prepared gtrs)
What Story? Music of Thomas L. Read
2018 by the American Composers Alliance
Concert Champêtre for cello & guitar Rafael Popper-Keizer & Aaron Larget-Caplan
The Legend of Hagoromo
2015 on Stone Records Limited (UK)
Comprising an intoxicating mixture of Japanese and American music, this fusion-recital is brilliantly conceived and performed by the young American virtuoso. Includes 4 premieres and 2 New Lullabies.
"The Legend of Hagoromo is eclectic and endlessly rewarding release.” ~ Classical Guitar
COMPOSES: Leo Brouwer, Keigo Fujii, Harold Arlen, George Gershwin, Toru Takemitsu, Ken Ueno, Kota Nakamura, Martin Max Schreiner
New Lullaby
May 2010 Six String Sound • Digital Release August 6, 2021 on Stone Records Limited
"This is not some godawful Classics-for-Baby CD"
– Fanfare
The 1st album dedicated to pieces written for the New Lullaby Project. 14 compositions by 13 American composers in the genre of the lullaby .
COMPOSERS: Lynn Job, Jonathan Feist, Francine Trester, Scott Wheeler, Kevin Siegfried, Mark Small, Nolan Stolz, Carson Cooman, John McDonald, David Vayo, David Leisner, Eric Schwartz, Ryan Vigil
Tracing a wheel on water
January 2006 Six String Sound• Digital Release August 6, 2021 on Stone Records Limited
Aaron's debut album with 12 tracks by compsers from Japan, Israel, Cuba, Paraguay, France, Spain and the United States. Includes three world premieres.
COMPOSERS: Lior Navok, Toru Takemitsu, Daniel Pinkham, Leo Brouwer, Kevin Siegfried, Emilio Pujol, Agustin Barrios, Roland Dyens
Passacaglia (2021)
A single written by UK composer David Warin Solomons
Arraneged and performed by Aaron Larget-Caplan
Live Video (not the same audio)
Perceptions (2013)
Navona Records
CAPRICCI by Thomas L. Read - World Premiere Guitar & String Quartet.
Summertime (2011)
Solo
Summertime - Written by George Gershwin, arranged by Toru Takemitsu
* Digital only
Vientos (2010)
Albany Records
Vientos - Music by Hayg Boyadjian
Mi Tango for solo guitar
"Stunningly played"
– Fanfare
Classic American Songs (2011)
Duo & Trio
Donald Wilkinson, baritone. Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
*Out of Print
Diablo y Tango (2008)
Duo – Limited Edition
Exotic Love Songs & Dances for violin & guitar.
COMPOSERS: Manuel De Falla and Astor Piazzolla.
*Digital only
Mystic Flute, Op. 22 by Alan Hovhaness
Arranged by Aaron Larget-Caplan
Published by Edition Peters
A sweet miniature composed for solo piano in 1937, Mystic Flute consists of two voices: a simple melody in the harmonic Minor scale balanced by an ostinato accompaniment in 7/8 meter that gives the work a hypnotic and ceremonial spirit. This arrangement was premiered on July 29, 2018 at the Coaster Theater in Cannon Beach, Oregon.
Bacchanale: for two prepared guitars.
"In this marvelous arrangement of Bacchanale, for two prepared guitars, the raucous sounds of the instruments work very well for this exuberant work"
~ American Record Guide
12 pages. Score includes preparation instructions and images.
Published October 2021 by Edition Peters.
God's Time: Music of J.S. Bach on Guitar
16 pieces by J.S. Bach:
Prelude-Fugue-Allegro, Chromatic Fantasy, Six Small Preludes and A Little Fugue, WTC Preldues, and the insiration for the album title God's Time is the Very Best Time, BWV 106.
September 28, 2022 on Tiger Turn
"If God can make time for this, surely you can too." ~Fanfare
God's Time page (links, reviews, videos and Liner Notes): https://alcguitar.com/godstime.php
Read about God's Time: http://alcguitar.com/blog/new-album-gods-time/
A limited number of autographed CDs are available via Bandcamp.
HUSHED – Scores of the New Lullaby Project, Vol. 2
Sixteen 21st-century works for solo guitar written for the New Lullaby Project. Commissioned, curated, and edited by Aaron Larget-Caplan.
Published in June 2021 by the American Composers Alliance. PDFs available.
COMPOSERS: Trester, Green, Turner, Lubkowski, Shatzer, Ueno, Dalton, Mashak, McDonald, Schreiner, Schuttenhelm, Job, Feist, Stolz, Éon.
*All scores recorded by Aaron on New Lullaby, Legend of Hagoromo, Nights Transfigured, Drifting
Review in Soundboard • This is Classical Guitar
NIGHTS TRANSFIGURED – Scores of the New Lullaby Project, Vol. 1
Fifteen 21st-century works for solo guitar written for the New Lullaby Project. Commissioned, curated, and edited by Aaron Larget-Caplan.
Published January 2021 by the American Composers Alliance. PDFs available.
*Won three national publishing Revere Awards!
COMPOSERS: Trester, Castilla-Ávila, Read, Shende, Julian, Fletcher, McMullin, Wheeler, Cooman, McDonald, Leisner, Schwartz, Boyd, Spaneas, Oliver.
*All scores recorded by Aaron on New Lullaby & Nights Transfigured
Review in Soundboard
España Cañi - Paso Doble (2020) Arr. by Aaron Larget-Caplan
Sheet music for classical guitar. Click below for score previews
* For physical scores outside the US, Canada, and Mexico, select Printed - International.
Score: Cage - Piano Music Arranged for Guitar
COMPOSITIONS: Three Easy Pieces, A Room, Chess Pieces, Dream, In A Landscape
Published 2017 by Edition Peters, Arrangements by Aaron Larget-Caplan
"I would strongly advocate these compositions to be performed by young guitarists before they start working on any other contemporary composers." (Soundboard)
Video Preview • This is Classical Guitar Reveiw
Score: Six Melodies by John Cage
Violin & Guitar, arranged by Aaron Larget-Caplan
Published 2016 by Edition Peters, Arrangements by Aaron Larget-Caplan
“The releasing of such works was very important for the development of the modern guitar play. The transcription of Larget-Caplan has ennobled our instrument.” (Six Strings of the world, Poland)
Guitarist: Just add espresso T-Shirt
$17.20
Aaron Larget-Caplan's 'Guitarist: Just add espresso' T-Shirt. Unisex, 100% cotton.
I Practice, therefore I am T-Shirt
$17.20
Aaron Larget-Caplan's I Practice, therefore I am. T-Shirt. Unisex, 100% cotton.
New Lullaby Project Unisex Ultra Cotton Tee
$17.42
New Lullaby Project unisex 100% cotton. Design by Aaron Larget-Caplan
New Lullaby Project Baby Beanie
$21.15
The New Lullaby Project music and now baby beanie hat is an ideal inclusion for colder months. Designed with comfort and good dreams in mind. Sized for infants up to roughly 6 months old.
I practice, therefore I am - Ceramic Mug
$7.33
I practice, therefore I am ceramic coffee mug designed by Aaron Larget-Capan. It’s BPA and Lead-free, microwave & dishwasher-safe in 11-ounce size.
Perfect by the side of the practicing musician.
New Lullaby Project Ceramic Mug
$8.00
New Lullaby Project mug. It’s BPA and Lead-free, microwave & dishwasher-safe, in 11-ounce size. The perfect gift for Dreamers, and coffee, tea, and chocolate lovers.
