Guitarist Adam Levin plays a world premiere of Espacio de Guitarra by Spanish composer Cristobal Halffter. June 16, 2017 at Jordan Hall, New England Conservatory, Boston, MA. Great performance filled with great colours, articulations, and some intense angular rhythms, then lovely section…
French guitarist Gaëlle Solal plays Choros No. 1 by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887–1959). This comes via Gitaar, maar waar? and their great YouTube Channel. Great playing by the amazing Gaëlle Solal, this is one of the lighter Villa-Lobos works…
A Lesson on Muting Strings During Cross-String Trills – In this lesson I cover the difference in technique and sound between single-string trills and cross-string trills as well as the resulting pitch and harmonic intervals. Not muting your cross-string trills…
David Kellner (1670–1748) was a German composer of the baroque period and a contemporary of Bach. He wrote a sizeable amount of compositions for the lute but also theory of music and equal temperament. His diagram of the circle of…
The Classical Flute and Guitar Project (Noemi Gyori – flute; Katalin Koltai – guitar) play Fantasia in D minor K.397 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756–1791). This group has been busy playing original works and arrangements by Giuliani, Haydn, Mozart, Nava, Beethoven, Hummel,…
Refinished Marcus Dominelli Classical Guitar for SaleSOLD Refinished French Polish & Action Adjustment by Marcus (Jan. 2017) Condition: Like New. A couple of small nail marks but the refinish cleans them up. 650mm, all-wood lattice bracing Cedar Top, Claro Walnut Back and…
Guitarist Matt Palmer plays Night by guitarist and composer Sergei Rudnev. Palmer is a great player and the Director of Guitar Studies at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland, and Coordinator of the Eastern Shore Guitar Festival and Workshop. You can…
Marco Ramelli plays Preludio I (Omaggio a Nathan Van Cleave) & Preludio II (a Marco Ramelli) by Fabio Selvafiorita. This comes via Selvafiorita’s Youtube Channel. Born in Milan (Italy), Marco Ramelli graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Fabio Selvafiorita…
Für Elise Theme by Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) – Arranged for easy guitar. An easy melody and basic first position chord shapes. From Bagatelle No. 25 in A minor (WoO 59, Bia 515) for solo piano, commonly known as “Für…
Russian guitarist Irina Kulikova playing Konstantin Vassiliev‘s Mogiana on a 2007 Gernot Wagner classical guitar. Recorded at the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa Monica, CA. This comes via their great YouTube channel. Great playing from Kulikova, clean, articulate, nice…
British guitarist Alexandra Whittingham (19) plays Un Dia de Noviembre by Leo Brouwer (b.1939). “After studying classical guitar, piano, jazz guitar and composition at the world-renowned Chetham’s School of Music for seven years, nineteen year old Alexandra Whittingham now studies…
Derelict Hands with Calum Borthwick (Scotland) and Russ Callison (US) play Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke by Arnold Schoenberg (1874–1951), arranged by Calum Borthwick. Schoenberg was one of the most influential musical minds of the 20th century regardless of what labels people slap…