Classical guitar videos by professionals and emerging artists. Watching pros play can improve your technique, musicality, and repertoire awareness.
Changseop Kim Plays Sonata K.380 by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757), arr. Carlo Marchione, on a 2004 Antonio Marin Montero guitar. This comes via PARTITA Studio in Seoul, Korea on their YouTube. Great aesthetic performance with consistent articulations and some nice dynamic shaping and ornaments. Although…
Patrick Tanguay and Gabriel Boulanger-Samson play the 2nd movement Reflexion from Tres piezas de Abril by Italian guitarist and composer Giorgio Mirto. These fine young players are both students from the Université de Sherbrooke music program in Quebec from the studio…
Canadian guitarists Adam Cicchillitti & Steve Cowan play Prelude 5, Book II: Bruyères by French composer Claude Debussy (1862-1918) arranged for guitar duo by Steve Cowan. Video by the amazing Drew Henderson. This comes via Cowan’s great YouTube Channel. Beautiful arrangement and ensemble playing, nice work!…
Rachel Schiff plays her arrangement of Sonate K322 by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) on a 2017 Ana Espinosa guitar. This comes via the excellent Siccas Guitars in Germany and their YouTube. Nice ornaments and rhythmic feel for this keyboard work by…
Timothy Steis Plays the Allegro from 2nd Violin Sonata BWV 1003 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). This comes via his YouTube channel. Video by Drew Henderson. Point of interest, Timothy is also a luthier and he’s playing his own guitar.…
Slovenian guitarist Karmen Štendler plays Six Balkan Miniatures by Serbian-born, American composer Dušan Bogdanović (b.1955). This comes via her fantastic YouTube channel with a special thanks/shoutout to David Antigüedad Mangas and Uroš Barič at Baros Studio. Great playing by Štendler, filled with sharp articulations…
Dublin Guitar Quartet performing their transcription of Aheym (Homeward) by Bryce Dessner. Originally commissioned by the Kronos Quartet in 2009. This comes via their great YouTube Channel. Transcription by Brian Bolger and the Dublin Guitar Quartet and was approved by…
Canadian guitarist Jeffrey McFadden continues to release a set of fantastic videos with the help of Henderson. Here he plays Eu sei que vou te amar by Antônio Carlos Jobim (1927–1994), arr. McFadden. Recorded by Canadian guitarist/producer Drew Henderson at Church of St. Mary Magdalene in…
A great interview with David Tanenbaum. This comes via Strings by Mail and their YouTube channel in collaboration with tonebase. If you are not familiar with Tanenbaum, you should be! He is a champion of new music and the guitar,…
Kaiser-Schmidt Guitar Duo (Jessica Kaiser and Jakob Schmidt) play Valses Poéticos (Intro & Melodioso) by Enrique Granados (1867–1916). This comes via their YouTube Channel. You can also check their debut CD including this work via their website. Valses Poéticos is a set of…
Guitarist Tariq Harb plays Capriccio Diabolico “Omaggio a Paganini”, Op.85 by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895–1968). Video by Drew Henderson. This comes via his amazing YouTube Channel. He has a great blurb about the work on his YouTube: One of my absolute favourite…
Matt Palmer plays Julia Florida by Agustín Barrios Mangoré (1885–1944). This comes via his great YouTube Channel. The guitar is a “La Leona” replica built by Michael Thames (spruce, cypress) that was one day old at the time of recording. “The…