Gerald Garcia – Etudes Esquisses
One of my favorite recommendations for contemporary works are these excellent etudes from Gerald Garcia. These etudes, as the composer suggests, are for the intermediate student from the third year…
Angelo Gilardino: Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza
Angelo Gilardino‘s Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza. Although the compositional style is very pattern-oriented and guitaristic the etudes are filled with a huge wealth of musical ideas. Each one…
The German Baroque: Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner
Theme of this week: The German Baroque (click to see all posts). Wolff Jakob Lauffensteiner (1676–1754) is the last composer I’ll feature on this week’s theme of the German Baroque. His music, as his…
The German Baroque: Bernhard Joachim Hagen
Theme of this week: The German Baroque. Bernhard Joachim Hagen (1720–1787) wrote some amazing works of beauty that are not often played. One reason for this is the unavailability of this works. To…
The German Baroque: Adam Falckenhagen
Theme of this week: The German Baroque (click to see all posts). Adam Falckenhagen (26 April 1697 – 6 October 1754) was a German lutenist and composer. He travelled around from court to…
The German Baroque: Sylvius Leopold Weiss
New to the site: Theme of the Week. I’ll be posting articles, links, and videos based on the theme. There will still be other posts such as lessons etc, but…
Spotlight: Heike Matthiesen, guitarist
I’m very happy to present this spotlight and interview with guitarist Heike Matthiesen. Heike is very active online and at concerts, festivals, as well as recording. It’s a real pleasure getting…
Jason Vieaux plays Ellington’s “In A Sentimental Mood”
The excellent Jason Vieaux lets loose with a rendition of Duke Ellington’s “In A Sentimental Mood.” It’s so nice to see a high level classical guitarist embrace jazz so successfully. So…
Giuliani 120 Arpeggio Studies – No. 1-20, Op. 1 (Free PDF)
Mauro Giuliani’s (1781–1829) 120 Right Hand Arpeggio Studies (exercises) for the right hand – free sheet music in PDF format for classical guitar. This is from Giuliani’s Op. 1 titled…
Review: Essential Bach Arranged for the Guitar by Lily Afshar
Amazon Link: Essential Bach: Arranged for the Guitar Paperback: 116 pagesPublisher: Mel Bay Publications (December 14, 2012)Level: Intermediate to Advanced. Students could start with the cello works and go from there. Works included:…
Sculptures of Guitars by Armand Pierre Fernandez
Some really interesting sculptures made mainly from bronze. ARMAN BIOGRAPHY (1928 – 2005) “I specialize very much in… everything,” the French-born American artist Arman told an interviewer in 1968. “I…
FretBuzz Interview: Jason Vieaux
Fret Buzz is a youth division blog via the Austin Classical Guitar Society. Their tagline is “By young guitarists, for young guitarists.” You can see their videos on the ACGS…