Cicchillitti & Cowan Play Choro by Andrew Staniland

ByBradford Werner
2018

Canadian guitarists Adam Cicchillitti & Steve Cowan play Choro: The Joyful Lament for Villa Lobos for 2 guitars (2014) by Canadian composer Andrew Staniland (b.1977). This comes via Cowan’s great YouTube Channel. Video by Drew Henderson. Some great ensemble work here from intricate exchanges and articulations to planned out shaping. The piece only really made sense to me when I found out who it was written for with all though lines (for Goryachev?). “Choro: The Joyful Lament for Villa-Lobos was written for Soundstreams and premiered by guitarists Fabio Zanon and Grisha Goryachev in 2015. It is a virtuosic showpiece full of clever echoes and extended guitar techniques that never loses its momentum from beginning to end.” Cicchillitti plays a guitar by Jean Rompré & Cowan plays a guitar by Bruno Boutin.

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.