Modern repertoire for the classical guitar including videos and sheet music articles. From early 20th century composers to contemporary new music.
The amazing John Schneider discusses microtonal music and the experimental 1976 Daniel Friederich meantone guitar with David Collett, president of Guitar Salon International. Part 1 of 3, with performances by Mak Grgic. Recorded at the Guitar Salon International showroom in…
South African guitarist Derek Gripper plays Kora music and original pieces. This comes via NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert on YouTube. Here he plays a set of works: Tuth Jara (Trad. Arr. Gripper), Joni (Derek Gripper), Jarabi (Trad. Arr. Gripper), Duga…
Singapore guitarist Kevin Loh (18) plays Sonatina meridional (1939) by Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce (1882–1948). This comes via his YouTube Channel. Ponce wrote a great deal of guitar music for Segovia and they are some of the best pieces in…
Valentino Worlitzsch (cello) & Sanel Redžić (guitar) perform Adagio op. 44I for cello and guitar by Polish composer Gerard Drozd. This comes via Gerard Drozd’s YouTube Channel. Live recording at the Gliwice Guitar Festival. Always love to promote chamber music…
Over the past 8 years guitarist Adam Levin has been working on a 21st Century Spanish Guitar commission project to be released in four volumes via Naxos Records. This is a large project involving the commissioning of 30 new solo guitar works. Stemming…
Guitarist Isaac Bustos performs Una Limosna por el Amor de Dios by Agustin Barrios (1885-1944). Audio and video by the amazing Canadian guitarist and producer Drew Henderson – always a top quality production. Guitar: 2013 Martin Blackwell Spruce doubletop. One of the…
Another youth feature as it’s great to see their music develop and they deserve praise for their excellent work. 13 year old German guitarist Leonora Spangenberger plays Etude No. 4 by Villa-Lobos. Last week I posted a video of Another fantastic youth student…
Sanel Redžić plays Five Bagatelles (1971) by English composer William Walton (1902-1983). This comes via Redžić’s YouTube. Great video and awesome to have all five of the Walton pieces in one place. Same video location as his previous video of the…
American guitarist Josh Moore plays Sonata No. 4 Italiana (1977) by Italian-born Brazilian-Uruguayan composer Guido Santórsola (1904–1994). This comes via Guitar Salon International via their YouTube on a 2016 Luis Fernandez de Cordoba guitar. Nice playing by Moore with lots…
Slovenian-born (Madrid based) guitarist Sanja Plohl plays Maxixe by Paraguayan guitarist/composer Agustín Barrios Mangore (1885-1944). One of Barrios’ folk-flavoured dances with plenty of fun chord and scale work. It’s pieces like this one that remind me of the way jazz players…
Russian guitarist Anton Baranov plays Carillon by Italian composer/guitarist Benvenuto Terzi (1892-1980). Cute piece, rather silly really but looks like a good etude for left hand slurs and right hand harmonics and certainly the effect is of interest. You might recognize…
Chia-Wei Lin Plays Marek Pasieczny’s The Tango Impressions: Tribute to the Art of Astor Piazzolla (2008). This comes via Marek Pasieczny’s YouTube. You can get the score from his website. Wild piece, some interesting moments along with plenty of showy Piazzolla lines.…