Classical guitar videos by professionals and emerging artists. Watching pros play can improve your technique, musicality, and repertoire awareness.
Canadian guitarist Adam Cicchillitti performs Prelude in C Minor by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). This comes via Cicchillitti’s YouTube channel and recorded by Drew Henderson. Great performance by Cicchillitti with beautiful phrasing and pacing. One of the great preludes by Barrios, solemn but not without a few…
Thu Le and Alexandra Whittingham perform Prelude and Fugue in E Major from Les Guitares bien tempérées (The Well-Tempered Guitars), Op.199 which is a collection of 24 preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968). This comes via Whittingham’s YouTube channel and recorded…
Antonio Rugolo performs Estudio de Velocidad by Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909). This comes via his YouTube channel. Nice playing and phrasing by Rugolo of this etude by Tarrega that really pushes lots of single lines but also a number of other techniques. Rugolo is an Italian guitarist…
Michael Butten performs three works by Luys de Narváez (fl. 1526-1549) on classical guitar. This comes via the Omni Foundation for Performing Arts and their great Youtube channel. Great repertoire and performance by Butten, he explains his arrangement of the Glorioso in the Omni description, “I…
Yair Avidor performs Sarabande and Double by French lutenist François Dufault (c.1604-1672) on an 11-course lute by Paul Thomson. This comes via his great YouTube channel. Dufault was a student of Denis Gaultier (c.1597-1672), but very little is known about his life. There are only a…
Les Productions d’OZ with the help of Louis Trépanier have enlisted numerous guitarists to perform and record the complete Les 100 de Roland Dyens on YouTube. The set is 100 intermediate level creative works composed by the late Roland Dyens.…
Tariq Harb performs El Colibri by Argentinian composer and guitarist Julio Sagreras (1879–1942) on classical guitar. This comes via Harb’s fantastic YouTube channel. As Harb mentions, “It is a virtuosic composition written for the classical guitar that is meant to imitate the hummingbird.” Zippy performance…
Kanahi Yamashita performs Nocturne “Reverie” Op.19 by Giulio Regondi (1823–1872). This comes via Open Strings Berlin and their Youtube channel. Great to hear another performance by Kanahi Yamashita. Wonderful phrasing and flowing lines as well as a lovely tremolo section. I’ve featured Yamashita on a number of occasions which…
The Montenegrin Guitar Duo with Goran Krivokapić and Danijel Cerović perform their arrangement of English Suite No.3, BWV 808 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), originally for keyboard. This comes via Goran Krivokapić’s YouTube channel. He’ll be releasing new movements each…
Ukrainian classical guitarist Marko Topchii performs Prelude No.5 in B major by Konstantin Bliokh (b.1976). This comes via Topchii’s YouTube channel. Konstantin Bliokh was born in 1976 in Kharkov, Ukraine and he is currently living in Tokyo, Japan. This prelude comes from a…
Stephen Stubbs (Baroque guitar) performs Pavanas by Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710) and Fandango by Santiago de Murcia (1682-1739) with Maxine Eilander (harp). This comes via the Pacific MusicWorks on their YouTube. If you’d like to play some Sanz I have an extensive collection of his works on the…
Ben Diamond performs Sonata Terra (2021) by Stephen Murphy. This is a three movement work written for Diamond and this is the official video premiere, recorded and mastered by Drew J. Henderson in Toronto ON, Canada. This comes via Diamond’s…