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Classical guitar videos by professionals and emerging artists. Watching pros play can improve your technique, musicality, and repertoire awareness.

McGregor-Verdejo Duo Play Missing You by Sharman

McGregor-Verdejo Duo with Mark McGregor (alto flute) and Adrian Verdejo (classical guitar) perform Missing You by Rodney Sharman. This comes via Redshift Music Society and their Youtube channel. This is also from a new online concert series, Duets, featuring video…

ViennaDuo Play Romanian Folk Dances by Bartok

ViennaDuo with Desislava Dobreva (flute) and Bozhana Pavlova (guitar) play their arrangement of Romanian Folk Dances by Béla Bartók (1881-1945). This comes via ViennaDuo on YouTube. Originally for piano and later orchestrated by the composer. Great performance and arrangement by ViennaDuo with beautiful melodic phrasing and…

Rercercata Bella Collaboration with Elizabeth Pallett

Rercercata Bella, an anonymous Renaissance lute work from the Siena Lute Book. Performance, sheet music, lesson, and discussion for classical guitar or lute. This is a collaboration with Elizabeth Pallett via Luteweb on YouTube (go subscribe) and Luteweb.com. I had…

Gabriel Bianco Plays Sonata Romántica by Ponce

French classical guitarist Gabriel Bianco performs the first movement Allegro Moderato from Sonata Romántica by Manuel Ponce (1882-1948). Performed from his hometown of Lille, France and performed on a Altamira N500 classical guitar. This comes via Altamira Guitars and their YouTube channel. Ponce wrote a…

Marco De Biasi Performs Vento d’Inverno 

Marco De Biasi performs his own composition Vento d’Inverno inside the historic 13th-century Oratorio dei Battuti Church in Vittorio Veneto, Italy. This comes via the Omni Foundation online series and their Youtube channel. I’ve posted videos of Marco De Biasi’s excellent playing and compositions a few times…

Nicole Payie Plays Yradier and Martín

Canadian classical guitarist Nicole Payie performs Mirándote by Eduardo Martín (b.1953) and La Paloma (The Dove) by Sebastián Iradier (1809-1865). This comes via Payie’s new YouTube channel (go subscribe now). Nicole is a good friend and colleague of mine and…

Etude No.6, Op.60 by Carcassi

Etude No.6, Op.60 (Moderato) by Matteo Carcassi (1796-1853) with performance, lesson, and sheet music. This from my edition of 25 Etudes, Op.60 by Matteo Carcassi. PDF or hardcopy sheet music for classical guitar. Comes with both a notation edition with left hand…

Baroque Guitar Works on a Saers Guitar A90

Baroque guitar works performed on a Saers Guitar A90. Here I’m performing two Baroque guitar works to get a bit more out of the Saer guitar that I recently reviewed. The first work is a beautiful little Aria by Italian…

Why do we need scholarly editions of music?

Why do we need scholarly editions of music? Here is an excellent video on the importance of creating music editions with a scholarly or inquisitive mind. This is outrageously relevant to lute and early guitar scores that include a variety…

Etude No.5, Op.60 by Carcassi

Etude No.5, Op.60 (Moderato) by Matteo Carcassi (1796-1853) with performance, lesson, and sheet music. This from my edition of 25 Etudes, Op.60 by Matteo Carcassi. PDF or hardcopy sheet music for classical guitar. Comes with both a notation edition with left hand…

Seungyeon Lee Plays Kinderszenen by Schumann

Korean classical guitarist Seungyeon Lee performs a selection of Kinderszenen (Scenes from Childhood) by Robert Schumann (1810-1856). Kinderszenen is originally for piano and arranged here by Johan Smith. This comes via Matthew McAllister’s Gallery of Guitar on YouTube for his…

Etude No.4, Op.60 by Carcassi

Etude No.4, Op.60 (Allegretto) by Matteo Carcassi (1796-1853) with performance, lesson, and sheet music. This from my edition of 25 Etudes, Op.60 by Matteo Carcassi. PDF or hardcopy sheet music for classical guitar. Comes with both a notation edition with left hand…