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Marcin Dylla plays by Prelude No. 2 by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa Lobos (1887-1959). This comes via the fantastic Siccas Guitars and their great YouTube channel. Great playing from Dylla as usual. Love his down to earth playing. He knows when to be elegant…
Turkish born but New York based guitarist Celil Refik Kaya playing Spanish composer Enrique Granados’ (1867–1916) Valses Poeticos on a beautiful new 2015 Kenneth Brogger ‘1890 Torres’ classical guitar via the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa Monica, CA. You can…
Here’s some of the pieces from the Class Axe Guitar workshop. The Guitar Society of Toronto with the Canadian Music Centre have created new compositions for solo classical guitar. This year’s workshop included collaborations with guitarists and organizations in Vancouver and…
Spanish guitarist Andrea Gonzalez Caballero plays Ségoviana, Op. 366 (1957) by French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974). We are indeed lucky to have a piece written for guitar by Milhaud, a member of Les Six, also known as The Group of…
French guitarist Thomas Viloteau plays Variations and Fugue on ‘Folia de España’ (1929) by Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce (1882–1948). This is one of a handful of monumental works for the guitar. This fantastic set of variations ends with a…
The Sheu Pettit Guitar Duo, Connie Sheu and Adam Pettit, playing Conversa de Botequim, the third movement of Clarice Assad’s Brasilerinhas. This comes via the great Guitar Salon International and their YouTube Channel. Guitars: 2005 Pepe Romero Jr.; 1994 Miguel Rodriguez ‘Centenario’. “Brazilian-American Clarice Assad is a…
The Sheu Pettit Guitar Duo are Connie Sheu and Adam Pettit playing the 3rd movement of Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo–Tedesco’s (1895–1968) Sonatina Canonica on two “pre-Millenium” guitars built by Thomas Humphrey (so-called because they pre-date his famous Millenium model guitars. Recorded…
Hungarian guitarist András Csáki and Polish Kwartet Camerata play Carpe Diem op. 121 by Gerard Drozd. Kwartet Camerata is: Włodzimierz Promiński – 1st violin; Andrzej Kordykiewicz – 2nd violin; Piotr Reichert – viola; Roman Hoffmann – cello. Film and sound by MovieArtStudio.…
Two of my favourite players in the world also play in a duo together. Plus, they are Canadian! Henderson-Kolk Duo (Drew Henderson & Michael Kolk) perform their arrangement of the Prélude from French composer Maurice Ravel’s (1875–1937) was a French composer Le Tombeau…
French guitarist Jérémy Peret plays Etudes No. 4 and 12 by Heitor Villa Lobos (1887-1959) via the 2014 Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition and their YouTube Channel. For some reason I rarely hear anyone play Etude No.…
English guitarist Laura Snowden performs her composition, Anpao, in the crypt at St John’s Smith Square. I like the vocal part too, very effective, especially with the choice of filming in that beautiful crypt. The piece reminds me of Aphex Twin meets…
Turkish born but New York based guitarist Celil Refik Kaya playing Agustín Barrios Mangoré’s Las Abejas on a great new 2015 Rafael Moreno Rodriguez classical guitar at the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa Monica, CA. You can also check…