Chamber Music with Classical Guitar. Videos, performances, lessons, and articles.
Greek guitarist Antigoni Goni (guitar) and Amy Norrington (cello) play Excerpts from Suite Populaire Espagnole (after Siete canciones populares españolas) by Manuel de Falla (1876-1946) via a live stream concert on April 29, 2021 at the big hall of the Koninklijk Coervatorium…
Miles Johnston (guitar) and Ji Young Kim (flute) perform Mountain Songs by Robert Beaser (b.1954). This comes via Johnston’s YouTube Channel. Nice to hear this excellent set of works by Beaser and well performed too. Some beautiful moments with wonderfully…
Canadian guitarists Adam Cicchillitti and Steve Cowan perform Sonatine by Maurice Ravel (1875–1937) on classical guitars. This comes via Cicchillitti’s YouTube channel. You can also hear this on their album Intimate Impressions which I posted about here. Great playing all around and beautiful tone and recording…
Fantastic. Antonio Rugolo and Angelo Gillo play Duo Concertant Op.31, No.3 by Antoine de Lhoyer (1768-1852) on 1820 Panormo replica guitars made by luthier Luigi Locatto. This comes vis Rugolo’s Youtube channel. Lhoyer was was a French virtuoso guitarist and an eminent…
Marta Paklar (soprano), Sofia Gvirts (alto), João Moreira (tenor), Matthew Baker (bass), and Mike Fentross (theorbo) perform the chorale ‘Christus der ist mein Leben’ from BWV 282 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). This comes from the absolutely amazing Netherlands Bach Society and…
Francisco Correa plays Bold and Bright, Stephen Goss‘s Guitar Concerto (2012). Performed live at the Teatro Colon, Bogotá, Colombia with the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Colombia (National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia) under conductor Henrik Schaefer. Nice and accessible concerto with great…
Stephen Stubbs (baroque guitar/director) along with Tekla Cunningham (baroque violin), Christine Beckman (baroque violin), Caroline Nicolas (baroque cello), Maxine Eilander (baroque harp), Henry Lebedinsky (organ/harpsichord), Antonio Gomez (percussion), play an excerpt from their virtual release on Dec 12th, 2020 from Allegro…
Oman Kaminsky & Robbin Blanco play Am grabe der Geliebten by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856). This comes via Kaminsky’s YouTube channel. I’ve always loved these duets for guitar and terz guitar (a terz can be imitated by placing a capo at 3rd position).…
Reginald L. Mobley (countertenor) and Stephen Stubbs (lute) perform Here the Deities Approve, composed by Henry Purcell (c. 1659 – 1695). Text by Christopher Fishburn. This comes via the Pacific MusicWorks on their YouTube. Another beautiful performance by two of my favourite musicians via the excellent…
Vienna Duo with Desislava Dobreva (flute) and Bozhana Pavlova (guitar) play The Night from Toward the Sea (海へ, Umi e) by Japanese composer Tōru Takemitsu (1930-1996). The work is divided into three sections: The Night, Moby-Dick, and Cape Cod. This comes via their new…
CARisMA Guitar Duo (Magdalena Kaltcheva and Carlo Corrieri) play their arrangement of La Danza, Tarantella Napoletana by Gioachino Rossini (1792–1868). La danza (1835) is a patter song by Rossini, in Tarantella napoletana time, the eighth song of the collection Les soirées…
Absolutely charming. Reginald L. Mobley (countertenor) and Stephen Stubbs (lute) perform Full Fathom Five, composed by Robert Johnson (c.1583–1633) with text by William Shakespeare (The Tempest). This comes via the Pacific MusicWorks on their YouTube. I’ve seen both Mobley and…