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Classical guitarist Kasia Smolarek performs Caprice No.24 from 24 Caprices for solo violin, Op.1 by Niccolò Paganini (1782-1840). This comes via Smolarek’s YouTube channel (go subscribe). You can also check out her album on BandCamp. Great performance by Smolarek with very consistent articulation and some intense surprises and risks.…
Bluvenduo with Zhanxiang Shi (Shanghai) and Sebastian Robles (Edmonton) perform a programme of Romantic era works by César Franck (1822-1890) and Franz Schubert (1797–1828). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel (go subscribe). Formed in San Francisco and now based in Geneva, Bluvenduo won the…
Classical guitarist Antigoni Goni performs Vidalita by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel (go subscribe). Great to see Goni perform this work after hearing her recording of it way back in 2001. Here’s a bit more info on the work…
Carlo Fierens plays Andante et allegro by Napoléon Coste (1805-1883) performed on a rare 1855 René-François Lacôte seven-string guitar (Coste’s own model), generously lent by Adopt a Musician (Accornero Collection). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel (go subscribe). Amazing to hear these works,…
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…