Marcin Dylla Plays Mazurka Appassionata by Barrios

ByBradford Werner
2025

Marcin Dylla performs Mazurka Appassionata by Agustin Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). This comes via Dylla’s YouTube channel. Beautiful performance by Dylla of this very intimate work with such nice silky phrasing and tone. Below is a small writeup about the work by Graham Wade via this Naxos album:

“Mazurka Appassionata (‘Passionate Mazurka’), written around 1919, was also titled as The Soul of María Esther, a lady with whom it is said Barrios fell in love while in Brazil (1916–20). One of the composer’s most sensuously ethereal works, its inventiveness demonstrates his mastery and understanding of the guitar.”

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.