Compendium
The latest release from Stephen Caudel. An album of some of his most diverse guitar music to date. From solo classical meditations to cinematic rock soundscapes, each piece tells its own story. Stephen features on classical, acoustic and electric guitars. Initial digital release November 2025. Limited edition CD release to follow.
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Return to Wine Dark Sea
Almost 3 years in the making, Return to Wine Dark Sea features Stephen Caudel playing classical and electric guitars and recording over 100 orchestral parts. Epic reworking of his original orchestral score (1983) based on Homer’s epic poem The Odyssey. This album also features new material including the opening ‘Prelude’. Available on CD in both card case and jewel case. Download also available.
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The Earth in Turquoise
The Earth in Turquoise is an emotive Arthurian epic. A ‘Symphonic Rock Poem’ full of soaring guitar solos and orchestral interludes graphically depicting the legend of King Arthur. A recording of epic proportion – a simulation of full symphony orchestra plus choirs and Rock Section featuring Stephen’s emotive Guitar style on both Classical and Electric Guitars.
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Reflections in Blue
Featuring Guitar and Orchestra, Reflections in Blue is an album of personal reflections on times and places in Stephen Caudel’s life. The music incorporates elements of Classical, Jazz and Blues with each track telling its own story.
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More Reflections (EP)
Featuring Guitar and Orchestra, A follow-on from the Reflections In Blue album, 3 acoustic jazz guitar pieces with improvisation. Had fun with tracks 1 & 3 which definitely lean towards the avant-garde!
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The Edel Rhapsody
Orchestral work for Solo B-flat Tenor Wagner Tuba and Orchestra (World Premiere 1993 Carlisle Cathedral). Score revised 2015. (Recording: 10 mins)
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Bow of Burning Gold
A musical celebration of an ideal past, a time of magic and wonder, romance and adventure. The melodic and harmonic threads of each composition are woven into a colourful tapestry portraying a glorious time that never was but should have been. Classical Guitars and keyboards.
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Impromptu Romance
Features music from some of the world’s greatest romantic composers. In these, as well as in his own two compositions: ‘Oliver’ and ‘Fantasie’, Stephen has endeavoured to evoke the atmosphere of a late 19th-century salon recital where the composer was often the performer and improviser and emotive power was the order of the day.
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Scaramouche
Scaramouche represents a departure from Stephen Caudel’s usual symphonic style of composition. It came about as a natural development of guitar collaborations with talented classical/Latin American guitarist: Tim Panting. Features both original compositions and classics from jazz, blues and popular guitar. (Album)
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Wine Dark Sea
First album release (1986). Guitars and synthesizer arrangement of Stephen’s 1983 orchestral score of the same name.