Cole Porter for Guitar

13 classic tunes arranged for Guitar, with editing by Francisco Correa. Many of the tunes have also been recorded by him and will are available on his album, Songs from Beyond from Deux-Elles Records.

https://www.fabermusic.com/shop/cole-porter-for-guitar-p477406

https://deux-elles.co.uk/product/songs-from-beyond-dxl-1215/

Here is a recent review of the album:

"Anyone who loves the classical guitar will no doubt have come across the many and varied books of popular songs arranged for our instrument by that wonderful writer/arranger John W. Duarte, as indeed I did when I was only a few years into playing (a shocking 50 years ago!!) One of the books was his 13 arrangements of music by that great composer Cole Porter, nine of which are here on this superbly recorded and played new album by Francisco Correa. Well, the arrangements are not easy (as I found out all those years ago), but they are very imaginative, always full of very creative ideas, whilst still retaining all the sounds that you would expect.

Of course, the other composer’s works will be just as well known to the majority of you even if you haven’t seen the Duarte arrangements, and I must be honest to not having seen any of the three (four) duet arrangements that wonderful Daniela Rossi helps Francisco Correa out with (But I hope they may be published soon?).

So, in essence, this is a great CD, beautifully recorded, and something that anyone who enjoys these tunes will get great pleasure from. Not only those, if you haven’t seen the published music for many of them, go and hunt them out, you won’t regret it!"

Chris Dumigan (25 August 2025)

Allclassicalguitar.co.uk