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Dowland’s Foundry with Sami Brown on lute perform It was a time when silly bees could speak, No. 18 from the Third Book of Songs by John Dowland (1563-1626). This comes via The Lute Society on their YouTube in preparation…
Canadian classical guitarist Marc-Etienne Leclerc performs Grand Caprice, Op.60 by Luigi Legnani (1790-1877). This comes via his YouTube channel (go subscribe). Wonderful performance by Leclerc of this large rhapsodic work that includes…well, everything really. Leclerc released a number of great…
Classical guitarist Lorenzo Micheli performs his arrangement Geppetto by Fiorenzo Carpi (1918-1997). The work is a celebrated theme from the soundtrack for the 1972 tv show Le avventure di Pinocchio. This comes via Partita Studio in Seoul, Korea on their YouTube channel (go subscribe). Beautiful playing and…
Bradford Werner performs Studio No.6 “Soledad” (Omaggio a Francisco Goya) from Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza by Angelo Gilardino (1941-2022) on classical guitar. This comes via my YouTube channel. Published by Editions Bèrben. The sheet music edition can be…
Sofia Saggese (mezzo soprano) and Davide Depedro (theorbo) perform Che si può fare (Arie op. 8, Venezia, 1664) by Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677). This comes via Edoardo Lambertenghi’s YouTube channel (go subscribe). Beautiful vocal performance, aria, and accompaniment by Depedro, pure charm. Barbara…
Norwegian classical guitarist Kristina Vårlid performs Variations on a Theme of Scriabin by Polish composer Alexandre Tansman (1897–1986), written in 1972 for Segovia, after the Prelude, Op. 16, No. 4 by Alexander Scriabin (1872-1915). This comes via Varlid’s Youtube channel (go subscribe). Beautiful performance by Vårlid with excellent…
Classical guitarist Orlando Pellicori performs Capriccio Diabolico, Op.85b by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968) with string quartet and filmed on location in Corigliano-Rossano (Cosenza), Italy. This comes via the Omni Foundation and their Youtube channel (go subscribe). Originally a solo work, this is his arrangement for guitar…
Vienna-based Iranian oud player and vocalist Avin Ahmadi performs the Iranian piece Gar Tīgh Bārad by Siamak Aghaei on the Oud. This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube (go subscribe). Beautiful performance by Ahmadi. Born in 2004, trained at Tehran’s music conservatory, she…
Sergei Gudelev performs Crystal Silence by Chick Corea (1941-2021), arr. by A. Марков. This comes via his Youtube channel (go subscribe). I don’t usually post arrangements of jazz works but this was a beautiful performance with a wonderful spacious quality and…
Hungarian classical guitarist Zsombor Sidoo performs Atemzüge für Thomas (Breaths for Thomas) by Wolfram Schurig (b.1967). This comes via Sidoo’s YouTube channel (go subscribe). Beautiful performance with excellent pacing, just enough to be spacious but also complete the sustained lines. The last two times I’ve featured…
Finnish lutenist Tuomas Kourula performs La petite Brunette by Robert de Visée (1655-1733) on theorbo via the Turku Early Music Society and their YouTube channel. Beautiful performance by Kourula with a excellent pacing which sets the mood so well. I also love the setting and…
I was listening to a guitar video of Prelude, BWV999 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) which a popular work to play on lute or guitar (my vid and edition here). But I’ve heard it so much that I started listening…