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Classical guitar videos by professionals and emerging artists. Watching pros play can improve your technique, musicality, and repertoire awareness.

Sowicz and Dragos Ilie perform Água e Vinho by Egberto Gismonti (b.1947).

Sowicz and Ilie Play Água e Vinho by Gismonti

Emmanuel Sowicz and Dragos Ilie perform Água e Vinho by Brazilian guitarist and composer Egberto Gismonti (b.1947). Performed in Kijima Hall, Tokyo. This comes via Sowicz’s YouTube. Beautiful little piece and performance with excellent tone and phrasing throughout. They met…

Nadja Janković plays Un Sueno En La Floresta by Agustin Barrios

Nadja Janković Plays Un sueño en la floresta by Barrios

Nadja Janković performs Un sueño en la floresta by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). This comes via Stefan Schmidt and his YouTube with video work by Jakob Schmidt. Wonderful performance with some beautiful phrasing and tone throughout. Un sueño en la floresta (A Dream in the…

Emma Rush Plays Variazioni Op. 9 by Emilia Giuliani Guglielmi

Canadian guitarist Emma Rush performs Variazioni su un tema de Mercadante Op.9 by Emilia Giuliani Guglielmi (1813-1850). This comes via Rush’s YouTube channel. You can also find this work on her album Wake the Sigh. Wonderful playing by Rush on a…

Laura Mazon Franqui Plays Sonata, Op.61 by Turina

Laura Mazon Franqui performs the third movement, III. Allegro vivo, from Sonata, Op.61 (1931) by Joaquin Turina (1882–1949). This comes via Guitar Salon International and their YouTube channel. Great performance by Franqui with an exciting energy as wall as a clean and crisp sound. Excellent…

Vitor Noah Guitar

Noah and Johnson Play Arcaro Op.3a-3b

Vitor Noah and Bradley Johnson perform Ricercare Op.3a and Ciaconna Op.3b by Rafael Marino Arcaro (b.1990). This comes via via Arcaro’s YouTube and Siccas Guitars and their YouTube. Brilliant performance by Johnson of the very challenging and engaging Ciaconna. I saw Johnson mention…

Preludio in D Minor by Agustin Barrios Mangore

Preludio in D Minor by Barrios

Preludio in D Minor by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). PDF sheet music and video for classical guitar. Comes with both a notation edition with left hand fingering and a separate tab edition. The level is intermediate (Grade 6). This is a…

Alí Arango plays Vals No.4, Op.8 by Barrios

Cuban classical guitarist Alí Arango performs Vals No.4, Op.8 by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). This comes via Arango’s Youtube Channel. Wonderfully rhythmic performance with interesting articulations and some nice natural rubato. I don’t always like a ton of rubato but it sounds so natural and dynamic…

Three Performances of Etude No.1 by Regondi

I’m working on a sheet music edition and performance video for Etude No.1 in C Major by Giulio Regondi (1823–1872) so have been watching performances on YouTube and thought I’d share them with you. Below are three videos performed by…

Abel García Ayala Plays Three Pieces by Carlos Chávez

Mexican guitarist Abel García Ayala performs Piezas for guitarra (Three pieces for guitar) by Mexican composer Carlos Chávez (1899–1978). This comes via Knobloch Strings and their YouTube channel. Wonderful rhythmic performance by Abel García Ayala with a wide variety of…

Simon Farintosh Plays Distant Light

Canadian guitarist Simon Farintosh performs his own composition Distant Light that recently won the Ottawa Guitar Society Composition Competition. This comes via Simon’s YouTube Channel. Congratulations to Simon on a beautiful piece and excellent performance. You can find his sheet music edition via…

Noemi Kucsera Classical Guitar

Noémi Kucsera Plays Vals No.3, Op.8 by Barrios 

Classical guitarist Noémi Kucsera performs Vals No.3, Op.8 by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). This comes via Kucsera’s YouTube channel. Beautiful performance by Noémi Kucsera with a nice combination of rhythmic clarity along with relaxed pacing and flowing phrases. Amazing recording…

Peter Graneis Plays Due Canzoni Lidie by D’Angelo

Peter Graneis performs Due Canzoni Lidie by Italian composer Nuccio D’Angelo (b.1955). This comes via Open Strings Berlin and their Youtube channel. Due Canzoni Lidie is a two movement piece written by Nuccio D’Angelo in 1984. I’ve posted performances of this work before and continue to…