‘Coming Through the Rye’ is based on a poem by Robert Burns written in 1782 and melodically set to the Scottish Minstrel ‘Common' Frae The Town’. ‘Auld Lang Syne’ employs an almost identical melodic shape but using a slightly varied tempo and rhythm. Giuliani skilfully combines the modal idiom of this melody with the sophisticated musical language of nineteenth-century Vienna to create a capricious and charming miniature. Played on a Michael Gee guitar. Edited by Iain Coleman.