Month June 2018

Laura Snowden Plays Villa-Lobos Prelude No. 3

English guitarist Laura Snowden plays Prelude No. 3 in A Minor by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959). This comes via her great Youtube channel. Live at the 2017 Altamira Guitar Festival Hong Kong. Filmed by Drew Henderson. Some nice phrasing and intense musical articulations and expressive…

Redžić & Bogosavljević play Bordel 1900 by Piazzolla

Sanel Redžić (guitar) & Jovan Bogosavljević (violin) play Bordel 1900, from L’Histoire du Tango by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992). This comes via Redzic’s great YouTube channel. Recorded in Klettbach, Germany in June 2018. These works are played often but I always prefer to post chamber…

Gator Lightweight EPS Foam Classical Guitar Case

Gator Lightweight Classical Guitar Case (GL-Classic)Made with EPS Foam and nylon covering. Weights around 5.5 pounds. Great gig case as it’s between a soft gig bag and a hard case and super affordable ($120 CAND or $89 USD). Just don’t…

Hiscox Liteflite Artist Classical Guitar Case

Buy or see options on Amazon: Hiscox Guitar CasesThey come in a range of levels in regards to quality, protection, and price starting at around $279-$530 USD. They also make cases for steel-string and other instruments. I bought the Hiscox…

Piotr Pakhomkin plays Sonata K. 177 by Scarlatti

Piotr Pakhomkin plays the Sonata in D Major K. 177 by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757). This comes via his YouTube Channel and the video by Drew Henderson. Guitar by luthier Ross Gutmeier – 2010 Cedar double-top. I’ve always loved this Sonata for it’s combination of…

Review: Classical Guitar Pickup, Kremona KNA NG-1

Kremona KNA NG-1 Piezo Pickup for Nylon String GuitarA behind the saddle pickup solution for classical guitar.Youtube Video Link (4k) Buy or Learn More on Amazon A review  of the Kremona KNA NG-1 Piezo Pickup for Nylon String Guitar. Need…

2018 Douglass Scott Classical Guitar

This is my new 2018 Douglass Scott Classical Guitar. He did a wonderful job on the guitar. It has a clear, elegant, and focused sound and I love the feel of the smaller scale length and body of the instrument.…

Lesson: Avoiding Tension While Playing

Tatyana Ryzhkova gives a nice lesson on how to avoid tension during playing. This comes via her popular YouTube Channel where she has a segment titled Ask Tatyana. I liked the discussion at 12:25 where pushing harder does absolutely nothing to your sound. More…

Xuanxuan Sun Plays Hymne a L’Amour by Dyens

Xuanxuan Sun Plays Hymne a L’Amour (사랑의 찬가) by Roland Dyens (1955–2016) on a Manuel Ramirez guitar. This comes via PARTITA Guitar Salon in Seoul, Korea on their YouTube. Such a fantastic player, I’ve previously posted a video of her playing Bach. So legato…

Hotlink: Francesco Corbetta’s Guitar Music

Giacomo Fiore has an article of interest in Classical Guitar Magazine headlined: In the 17th Century, Francesco Corbetta’s Music Enthralled Monarchs and Commoners Alike. Here’s a taste: …From France’s Louis XIV to Charles II of England, a veritable who’s who…

Guitar Duo Vito Play Valses Poeticos No.1 by Granados

South Korean siblings, Guitar Duo Vito (Soojin Lee & Seongjun Lee) play Valses Poeticos No.1 Melodico by Enrique Granados (1867–1916). This comes via their excellent YouTube channel. I’ve featured the duo once before playing a duo arrangement of Asturias by Albeniz. Clean…

Weimar Guitar Quartet Play Nebulae by Olga Amelkina-Vera

Weimar Guitar Quartet playing Nebulae by Belorusian composer Olga Amelkina-Vera. The quartet is made up of Karmen Stendler, Stephanie Jones, Hanna Link, and Jakob Schmidt. This comes via Stendler’s YouTube channel or Jones’s Youtube. Great playing by this super group of young artists. I really enjoy…