Modern repertoire for the classical guitar including videos and sheet music articles. From early 20th century composers to contemporary new music.
Fabio Zanon gives us an introduction to the compositions and impact of Leo Brouwer as well as a brief intro of Sonata V – Ars Combinatoria performed here by Andrey Lebedev. Lebedev was coached by Brouwer and Bream for this work…
Rebeca Oliveira plays her arrangement of Sonata No. 23 by the Portuguese composer Carlos Seixas (1704–1742). This comes via Open Strings Berlin and their amazing Youtube Channel. Fantastic playing, great technique and musicality. I love how Open Strings Berlin is introducing me to great players.…
Jacob Cordover plays Vals Venezolano No. 3 by Antonio Lauro (1917-1986) on a 2008 Andrea Tacchi guitar. This comes via the excellent Siccas Guitars in Germany and their YouTube. Venezuelan composer Antonio Lauro wrote a sizeable amount of guitar music filled with Venezuelan…
Kevin Cahill plays Equinox by Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996). This comes via Open Strings Berlin and their amazing Youtube Channel which has been a new source of high quality productions and great music. Takemitsu is one of my favourite composers. His music has a beauty…
Aros Guitar Duo (Mikkel Egelund Nielsen & Simon Wildau) play Nocturnal Procession by Danish composer John Frandsen. This comes via Mikkel’s YouTube Channel. Great performance and piece, love the rotating repetitive progression and the thematic development. Also, unexpectedly, love the whistling that is used…
The fantastic Croatian guitarist Zoran Dukic plays “451” from Cinema Paradiso by Stephen Goss. This comes via Guitar Salon International and their YouTube Channel. Played on the Jose Ramirez guitar that Andres Segovia owned and performed on from 1969 until 1980. Recorded at the Guitar Salon…
The Quattro Palos Guitar Quartet from Tokyo, Japan, playing Shigeru Matsuoka’s Samba de Viento. This comes via Guitar Salon International and their YouTube and played on on guitars by La Cañada – Torres replicas. These are all the “A” models, which have an antiqued…
The new album promotional videos are here! Last year, Victoria Guitar Trio (Michael Dias, Adrian Verdejo, and Bradford Werner), with the assistance of the Canada Council for the Arts and Redshift Records, recorded an album of commissions and favourite works by…
Premier performance of Xiang He Ge 相和歌 by Joel Hoffman for the performers Zhang Weiliang (xiao) and Xuefei Yang (guitar). This comes via Xuefei Yang’s amazing YouTube channel. Here’s the blurb about the work via her YouTube: The piece is a “source…
Guitar composer Allan Willcocks (1869-1956) is a fictional composer, a pen name for Tilman Hoppstock. It was somewhat obvious from the slightly humorous biography and dedications but nevertheless the works continue to be played. But he even made fake facsimiles…
Spanish guitarist Andrea González Caballero plays Tango en Skaï by Roland Dyens (1955–2016). This comes via the excellent Siccas Guitars in Germany and their YouTube. Tango en Skaï (1985), is one of Dyens’ best-known pieces, it encompasses all the fun and great writing that comes with Dyens. “Skaï”…
Tango en Skaï by Roland Dyens (1955–2016) for Classical GuitarTango en Skaï (1985), is one of Dyens’ best-known pieces, it encompasses all the fun and great writing that comes with Dyens. “Skaï” is a French slang term for imitation leather and…