This Catalan tune will be familiar to most guitarists; ifs also known outside the world of guitar as a carol, set with Christmas words, and that makes it a good performance piece at School concerts. Players of Grade Four standard would find nothing scary in this piece, although some of the rhythm patterns require confidence and maturity to keep the parts tightly in step when they are playing on different beats, overlapping rather than interlocking.

A leisurely free-form introduction with drea...