Modern repertoire for the classical guitar including videos and sheet music articles. From early 20th century composers to contemporary new music.
Cathy Fern Lewis (voice) & Douglas Hensley (lute) play “She walks in Beauty” by Vancouver-based composer Rodney Sharman. Recorded at Wood Recital Hall, Victoria Conservatory of Music, Victoria, BC, May 2016. I recently recorded a new work for some colleagues of…
Canadian guitarist Adam Cicchillitti plays Par Vents et Marées written in 2013 by Canadian guitarist and composer Patrick Roux for his wife Chantal Gagnon. Par Vents et Marées is one of Patrick Roux’s ‘Panoramic Scenes’ for solo guitar. Audio and…
Marcin Dylla plays by Prelude No. 2 by Brazilian composer Heitor Villa Lobos (1887-1959). This comes via the fantastic Siccas Guitars and their great YouTube channel. Great playing from Dylla as usual. Love his down to earth playing. He knows when to be elegant…
Here’s some of the pieces from the Class Axe Guitar workshop. The Guitar Society of Toronto with the Canadian Music Centre have created new compositions for solo classical guitar. This year’s workshop included collaborations with guitarists and organizations in Vancouver and…
Pour guitare by Steve CowanWith guest guitarist François BergeronArtist Website: stevecowanmusic.comRelease Date: 2016 Listen to Samples or Buy via Amazon: Pour Guitare by Steve Cowanor iTunes / CD Baby Canadian guitarist Steve Cowan recently released an album featuring a collection of works by…
Spanish guitarist Andrea Gonzalez Caballero plays Ségoviana, Op. 366 (1957) by French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974). We are indeed lucky to have a piece written for guitar by Milhaud, a member of Les Six, also known as The Group of…
French guitarist Thomas Viloteau plays Variations and Fugue on ‘Folia de España’ (1929) by Mexican composer Manuel María Ponce (1882–1948). This is one of a handful of monumental works for the guitar. This fantastic set of variations ends with a…
The Sheu Pettit Guitar Duo, Connie Sheu and Adam Pettit, playing Conversa de Botequim, the third movement of Clarice Assad’s Brasilerinhas. This comes via the great Guitar Salon International and their YouTube Channel. Guitars: 2005 Pepe Romero Jr.; 1994 Miguel Rodriguez ‘Centenario’. “Brazilian-American Clarice Assad is a…
The Sheu Pettit Guitar Duo are Connie Sheu and Adam Pettit playing the 3rd movement of Italian composer Mario Castelnuovo–Tedesco’s (1895–1968) Sonatina Canonica on two “pre-Millenium” guitars built by Thomas Humphrey (so-called because they pre-date his famous Millenium model guitars. Recorded…
Hungarian guitarist András Csáki and Polish Kwartet Camerata play Carpe Diem op. 121 by Gerard Drozd. Kwartet Camerata is: Włodzimierz Promiński – 1st violin; Andrzej Kordykiewicz – 2nd violin; Piotr Reichert – viola; Roman Hoffmann – cello. Film and sound by MovieArtStudio.…
Two of my favourite players in the world also play in a duo together. Plus, they are Canadian! Henderson-Kolk Duo (Drew Henderson & Michael Kolk) perform their arrangement of the Prélude from French composer Maurice Ravel’s (1875–1937) was a French composer Le Tombeau…
French guitarist Jérémy Peret plays Etudes No. 4 and 12 by Heitor Villa Lobos (1887-1959) via the 2014 Guitar Foundation of America International Concert Artist Competition and their YouTube Channel. For some reason I rarely hear anyone play Etude No.…