When I was an active performer I did a huge number of chamber music concerts. I played in just about everything worth playing for voice and guitar, violin and guitar, flute and guitar, and odd ensembles like bassoon and guitar and even the Sextour Mystique by Villa-Lobos for flute, harp, celeste, saxophone, guitar and oboe. And when that ran out I transcribed a lot of music for flute and guitar and violin and guitar.
One of the best ensembles I was in was with flutist Richard Volet. We transcribed the English Suite no 2 by J. S. Bach for flute and guitar. It's a bit tricky, requiring the flute player to not breath for long periods of time and the guitar player to do a lot of non-guitaristic things. We performed the whole suite on a number of occasions but the only decent recording we have of it was from a live concert where we just played the Prelude, Sarabande and Bourrées.
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