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Altius Duo (Adam Batstone & Chad Yacobucci) play Prelude and Fugue no. XV in A major by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 – 1968). Audio and Video Produced by Drew Henderson. Guitars by Bruno Boutin and Greg Byers. Tedesco was an Italian…
Michael Partington and Stephen Stubbs performing Anton Diabelli’s Op. 57, on two period guitars. Brechemin Auditorium, University of Washington School of Music, Seattle. January 12, 2014. This is such a coincidence because I recently saw Stubbs perform in Victoria twice…
Michael Partington performing Open Up Your Ears by Bryan Johanson (b. 1951), UW Milwaukee, April 4, 2014 on a Martin Blackwell guitar. Partington is a fantastic player based in the Seattle area. I’ve seen him play on a number of…
Xingye Li plays Allegro BWV 1003 by J.S. Bach (1685-1750) on a 2014 Roy Fankhänel guitar. This is from Bach’s Violin Sonata No. 2 in A minor, BWV 1003. This video is via the excellent Siccas Guitars and their YouTube…
Canadian guitarist Emma Rush plays Phantasia in A major by David Kellner (1670–1748). Kellner was a German lutenist and composer of the baroque era as well as a significant music theorist. Rush plays with a great clarity and nice unfolding…
Tariq Harb and Brent Crawford with the University of Toronto Guitar Ensemble directed by Jeffrey McFadden perform Jan Bartlema‘s ‘Concertino’ at Walter Hall. Excellent playing by Harb & Crawford and some nice ensemble work overall with McFadden keeping the group…
Fantastic playing regardless of what you think of Glass on guitar. They have really worked out these arrangements. Dublin Guitar Quartet with Brian Bolger, Pat Brunnock, Tomas O’Durcain, and Michael O’Toole play Philip Glass String Quartet No. 2 via NPR Music…
Let there be a video for every topic! Here the excellent Siccas Guitars via their YouTube channel show us how to properly pack a guitar for shipping or selling it.
The Gravity of Ms. Peters by Bret Williams with Mark Dover, Clarinet. Matt Aprea, violin. Bret Williams, guitar. Marc Schmied, Bass. I quite like this ensemble work which is very playful. Reminds of something Kronos would be playing. Maybe some…
Xingye Li plays Etude No. 1 by Heitor Villa Lobos on a 2014 Roy Fankhänel guitar. This video is via the excellent Siccas Guitars and their YouTube channel. Xingye Li is blazing here! Intense speed plus some good shaping and…
A performance of Astor Piazzolla’s Invierno Porteño by Giampaolo Bandini (guitar), Cesare Chiacchiaretta (bandoneón) and the Cerrato Brothers (violin & cello) via the Austin Classical Guitar Society on their YouTube and UPG Video. Live and unedited, recorded in the downtown Austin loft of…
Kupinski Duo (Ewa Jablczynska & Dariusz Kupinski), play so well worked out arrangements of Frederic Chopin’s Mazurka op. 24 no. 2 Mazurka op. 17 no. 4 Mazurka op. 41 no. 3. Arr. Kupinski Guitar Duo. I’m sure I love Chopin…