When I was studying for A level music, the Symphonie Fantastique was a set work. I was already familiar with Berlioz via my father's World Record Club collection of classical music. He stands alone amongst composers as someone years before his time and highly innovative in all his compositions. At school, I discovered - to my great delight - that Berlioz was a guitarist and also that his colourful orchestration was attributed to the fact he was not bound by the keyboard as most traditional composers were. He was radical and before his time in many ways. I have always loved The Shepherd's Farewell (in fact my first hearing was, I think, a folk setting by the Kingston Trio when I was a very young child, though I couldn't swear to it) so setting it for guitar trio was inevitable. Guitar one accesses the higher end of the fretboard for classical guitar and has some reasonable position shifting. Guitar two is for the most part fairly easy although it goes into the middle of the neck several times. Guitar three has some tricky stretches at speed so will need practice. E major is a lovely key for the instrument and the tablature is there to help the less confident reader. Have fun with this, the gorgeous harmonies and abrubt modulations certainly have a tingle factor. For a group with more equal abilities, try switching parts on each verse!