Classical guitar videos by professionals and emerging artists. Watching pros play can improve your technique, musicality, and repertoire awareness.
Rupert Boyd performs Estudo N.1: Harpa Eolia by Brazilian guitarist and composer Chrystian Dozza. This comes via Guitar Salon International and their fantastic YouTube channel. Beautiful playing by Boyd with fluid arpeggios and flowing phrasing. I don’t really know Dozza’s material but I this…
Iliana Matos performs A Solas by Juan Erena (b.1970). This comes via her YouTube channel and filmed in Cuarto Real de Santo Domingo, Granada, Spain, in collaboration with European Guitar Foundation. Beautiful performance by Matos with a wonderfully clear sound and flowing musical phrasing.…
Beautiful performance! Mara Winter (traverso) & Robert Barto (lute) perform the Gigue from Duo-Sonata in D minor by Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1686–1750). This sonata is from ‘The London Manuscript’ (ca. 1717-1725), missing original duo part reconstructed by Karl-Ernst Schröder. This…
Matthew McAllister performs a tiny concert including works by Rameau, Towner, and the folk song Wild Mountain Thyme. This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel where you can also see which guitars are being played in the description. Beautiful playing by McAllister with…
Duo Imbesi Zangara (Carmelo Imbesi and Carmen Zangarà) and the A.Scarlatti Plectrum Orchestra of Palermo perform the concerto for two guitars and plectrum orchestra, Konzert für zwei Gitarren und Zupforchester by German composer Hermann Ambrosius (1897-1983). This comes via the…
Marcin Dylla performs Mazurka Appassionata by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). This comes via Dylla’s YouTube channel. Beautiful performance by Dylla of this very intimate work with such nice silky phrasing and tone. Below is a small writeup about the work by Graham Wade via this…
David Russell performs Air Varié No.1, Op.21 by Giulio Regondi (1822-1872) on classical guitar in San Martín. Frómista, Spain. This comes via the Omni Foundation series and their Youtube channel. Beautiful performance as always from Russell with excellent pacing and phrasing throughout. Below is…
Greek classical guitarist Ioanna Kazoglou performs a concert of works by Dionisio Aguado, Joaquín Turina, Francisco Tárrega, Joaquín Rodrigo, Vicente Asencio, and Joaquín Malats. This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel where you can also see which guitars are being played in the description.…
Classical guitarist Domenico Mottola performs Variations sur Folia de España et Fugue by by Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce (1882–1948). This comes via Edoardo Lambertenghi’s YouTube channel. Amazing performance by Mottola with an impressive variety of unique interpretations of each variation. Such a wide array of articulations and virtuosic…
Classical guitarist Thomas Flippin performs his arrangement of Nimble Feet from Dances in the Canebrakes by Florence Beatrice Price (1887-1953). This comes via Flippin’s YouTube channel. Wonderful performance by Flippin with such playful rhythms, articulations, and beautiful phrasing. Florence Price…
Partita No.16 in E Minor by Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (1690-1758). PDF sheet music arranged for classical guitar. Comes with both a notation edition with left hand fingering and a separate tab edition in the same pdf. The level is late-intermediate (grade 6-8) depending…
French classical guitarist Gabriel Bianco performs Fantaisie Hongroise (Hungarian Fantasy) from Trois Morceaux op.65 (1857) by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel and played on a on a 1986 Daniel Friederich classical guitar. Fantastic performance by Bianco with a dramatic flair well-matched to the extroverted…