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Fantasia in August makes references to guitar pieces I’ve admired, such as Benjamin Britten’s Nocturnal after John Dowland and Augustin Kubizek’s Sonata. It was written in August 2011, hence the title, and was the first prize-winner of the 2011 New Zealand Classical Guitar Composition Competition. Fantasia in August was first performed on 17 November 2011 by Matthew Marshall, who also recorded it in 2015 on the album Rhapsody on a Riff (Ravello Records RR7907). - Michael Calvert