Category Modern Repertoire

Modern repertoire for the classical guitar including videos and sheet music articles. From early 20th century composers to contemporary new music.

Matthew McAllister plays Preludio e toccatina by Assad

Matthew McAllister plays the 3rd movement, Preludio e toccatina from Aquarelle by Sergio Assad (b.1952) during a session via Uroš Barič and Baros Records in Slovenia. This comes via McAllister’s YouTube channel. Great playing as usual and you can always…

Augustin Pesnon Plays Notes Indiscrètes by Dyens

Augustin Pesnon plays Notes Indiscrètes by Roland Dyens (1955–2016). This comes via the Paris Guitar Foundation and their amazing YouTube channel. Sound Engineer: Basile Segouin; Guitar: Greg Smallman & Sons 2011; shot in Paris, France. Directed by Dora Surdeau. Nice little piece with…

Redžić & Bogosavljević play Concert d’aujourd’hui by Piazzolla

Sanel Redžić (guitar) & Jovan Bogosavljević (violin) play 4. Movement: Concert d’aujourd’hui, from L’Histoire du Tango by Argentine composer Astor Piazzolla (1921–1992). This comes via Redzic’s great YouTube channel. Recorded in Klettbach, Germany. Wonderfully rhythmic performance and worked out articulations.

Meng Su plays Sun Wukong’s Toccata by Assad

Meng Su plays Sun Wukong’s Toccata by Sergio Assad. This comes via GuitarCoop and their YouTube Channel. Amazing performance with an outrageously high level of technique, musicality, and sonic interpretation. Meng Su is one of my favourite players, I got to see her perform last…

Goran Krivokapić Plays Concierto de Gliwice by Drozd

Goran Krivokapić plays Concierto de Gliwice op. 175 (Dedicated to Goran Krivokapić) by Polish composer Gerard Drozd via his YouTube. Performed with the AUKSO Chamber Orchestra of the City of Tychy Marek Moś, conductor. Great piece, playing, and video of this 31min concerto!

John Cage Piano Music Arranged for Guitar

Piano Music Arranged for Guitarby John Cage, arranged by Aaron Larget-CaplanEdition Peters, 2017Sheet Music, Notation, 20 PagesBuy or Learn More at Edition Peters Also see his beautifully recorded album of this music and more via Amazon or iTunes on his…

Alberto Mesirca plays Kcor by Marco De Biasi

Alberto Mesirca plays Kcor by Marco De Biasi. This comes via De Biasi’s YouTube Channel. Great performance by Mesirca of this extroverted work. I performed some of Marco De Biasi’s studies (studio) for guitar trio last year which are pretty cool…

Thomas Viloteau plays Valse en Skaï by Dyens

French guitarist Thomas Viloteau plays Valse en Skaï by Roland Dyens (1955–2016). This comes via his great Youtube channel. Viloteau is a GFA winner and concert guitarist but also very down to Earth, I love these at-home videos from such an amazing player. Nice…

Aniello Desiderio Plays Wie Die Nacht Übers Land Kommt by Schmitz

Fabio Zanon gives us an introduction to composer Georg Schmitz and his new work Wie Die Nacht Übers Land Kommt (trans. How The Night Comes Over The Land) followed by a performance by Aniello Desiderio. English subtitles: Click on subtitle button next to the…

Johan Löfving Plays Canto & Finale from Ginastera’s Op.47

Swedish guitarist Johan Löfving performs the Canto & Finale from A. Ginastera’s Sonata Op.47. Produced by TallWall Media in Swedish Church London. This comes via his Youtube Channel. Also check out his last video that I featured on the site with him playing Mertz…

Jeffrey McFadden Plays Cuatro Piezas by Ponce

Canadian guitarist Jeffrey McFadden plays Cuatro piezas para guitarra by Manuel Ponce (1882-1948). This comes via McFadden’s fantastic Youtube channel. Recorded by Drew Henderson in July, 2018 at St. Anne’s Anglican, Toronto. Guitar by Marcus Dominelli, 2017. Excellent playing as usual from McFadden with beautiful phrasing and…

Ben Diamond Plays Night Spirit Suite by Andrew Staniland

Canadian guitarist Ben Diamond plays Night Spirit Suite (2008) by Canadian composer Andrew Staniland (b.1977). This comes via Diamond’s YouTube. A well-title work for this Halloween night post! Staniland has written a number of solo and ensemble works for guitar including the excellent…