Classical guitar videos by professionals and emerging artists. Watching pros play can improve your technique, musicality, and repertoire awareness.
The GFA Community Orchestra with Check Hulihan conducting, perform Folds by Ryan Ayers at the 2024 Convention in Fullerton, California. This comes via the Guitar Foundation of America and the GFA YouTube channel. Great to see such a coherent group…
Antonio Rugolo performs the Complete 24 Exercises (Studies) Op.48 by by Mauro Giuliani (1781-1829). This comes via Rugolo’s YouTube channel (go subscribe). It’s amazing to hear these etudes performed by such a great musician. This is a wonderful example of the musical potential…
Pièces caractéristiques pour guitare, Op.123 (1964) by Belgian composer Jean Absil (1893-1974). Performed by Bradford Werner. I’m trying to feature more music by modern and contemporary composers and external publishers on the site and this is a great piece to start…
Paul Bizot performs Quatre pièces pour la guitare by Sir Lennox Berkeley (1903–1989). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel (go subscribe). Great performance by Bizot filled with nice motivic delivery, articulation, and orchestration of the guitar soundscape. Emmanuel Sowicz sent me this note…
Canadian guitarist Drew Henderson performs Suite for Lute, BWV 995 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) on a seven-string guitar. This comes via Henderson’s YouTube channel (go subscribe). Henderson’s sheet music edition will be coming soon via his website. Brilliant and refined performance by Henderson with…
Daniel Schatz performs his arrangement of Agradecendo by Brazilian composer who’s best known as Pixinguinha (1897-1973) [Alfredo da Rocha Viana Filho]. This comes via Schatz’s YouTube channel (go subscribe). Agradecendo was likely written with the piano or for a general instrumental ensemble in mind, but…
Classical guitarist Eva Beneke performs her transcription of Prelude from Suite No. 3, Pieces de Clavecin by Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729). This comes via Guitar Salon International and their YouTube channel (go subscribe). Played on a 2024 spruce and Indian rosewood guitar by…
Italian classical guitarist Leonardo De Marchi performs Toccata Ritoccata by Marco De Biasi (b.1977) on a 10-String Guitar by Fabio Zontini. This comes via the Omni Foundation online series and their Youtube channel (go subscribe). Intense performance to match an equally intense composition. Below is…
Giovanni Masi (guitar),Elena Branno (Oboe), Raffaella Cardaropoli (cello) perform Aria Op.146 from Concerto da Camera by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968). This comes via the Omni Foundation online series and their Youtube channel (go subscribe). The technical opus number is Aria Op.146a and is a 1968 arrangement for…
Finnish lutenist Tuomas Kourula performs La Mascarade by Robert de Visée (1655-1733) on theorbo via the Turku Early Music Society and their YouTube channel. Nice performance by Kourula with a great rhythmic feel and sound in that fantastic performance spot.…
Italian classical guitarist Giulio Tampalini performs Six pieces brèves (dedicated to Angelo Gilardino) by Hungarian composer Ferenc Farkas (1905-2000). This comes via his YouTube channel. Great performance by Tampalini of this excellent work filled with so much motivic interest. You can find the filming locations in…
Finnish guitarist Patrik Kleemola performs Minuetto from Sonata Op. 25 by Fernando Sor (1778–1839) on an original René Lacote from 1839. This comes via Kleemola’s YouTube channel (go subscribe). Great performance by Kleemola with an excellent balance of crisp rhythm with beautiful phrasing and pacing. He has…