Classical guitar videos by professionals and emerging artists. Watching pros play can improve your technique, musicality, and repertoire awareness.
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…
Matthew Cochran and Matthew McAllister perform Concerto in D Major BWV 972 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) after Antonio Vivaldi and arranged by Katrin Klingeberg and Sebastian Montes. Recorded in June 2023 at the Cathedral Barn in Traverse City, Michigan, USA. This comes via McAllister’s YouTube channel.…
João Luiz performs Los Guardianes de La Magia (dedicated to João Luiz) by Leo Brouwer (b.1939). This comes via his YouTube channel. You might already know João Luiz from the amazing Brasil Guitar Duo. This is the second video of…
Classical guitarist Cristina Galietto performs The Whistling Spider by Sergio Assad (b.1952). This comes via Knobloch Strings and their YouTube channel. The piece was dedicated to Galietto and this is the premiere video. Wonderful performance by Galietto with so many fun articulation and zippy characters…
Sebastián Montes performs Allemande and Courante from Sonata in A major by Sylvius Leopold Weiss (1686–1750) on classical guitar. This comes via his Duo KM on YouTube channel. Always a pleasure to hear Weiss who is one my favourite lute…
Marionas by Gaspar Sanz (1640-1710). PDF sheet music for classical guitar with video performance and lesson. This comes from my Gaspar Sanz Collection Volume 2, a collection of six works that come with both a notation edition with left hand fingering and…
Marcello Fantoni performs Sinfonia dall’Italiana in Algeri di Rossini Op.2 by Luigi Legnani (1790-1877) on a period Johann Anton Stauffer (Vienna 1845 ca.) guitar. This comes via Edoardo Lambertenghi’s excellent YouTube channel. An amazing performance filled with an excellent contrast of showy flare and…