Classical guitar videos by professionals and emerging artists. Watching pros play can improve your technique, musicality, and repertoire awareness.
Aquarelle Guitar Quartet & Clarice Assad Play ‘A Mi Pueblo’ By Ismael Ledesma. This comes via their YouTube Channel where they wrote this: “A Mi Pueblo is a beautifully haunting piece of music written by the Paraguayan harpist Ismael Ledesma.…
Pavel Steidl plays Liebeslied by Johann Kaspar Mertz (1806-1856). This comes via CaminoArtes in Camino de Santiago in Carrión de los Condes, Palencia, Spain and their amazing YouTube channel. Liebeslied (love song) comes from Mertz’s Bardenklänge (Bardic Sounds), Op. 13. Beautiful playing as…
Brazilian guitarist Fabio Zanon Plays Balada para Martin Fierro (Aire Sureño) by Argentine composer Ariel Ramirez (1921–2010). This comes from the amazing GuitarCoop and their fantastic YouTube Channel. On this GuitarCoop page Zanon says of this work: “I first heard the Balada by Ariel…
Guitarist Xuefei Yang Plays Xodó da Baiana by Dilermando Reis (1916-1977). This comes via her great YouTube channel. The piece was also recorded by Xuefei on her album Colours of Brazil (Decca). Nice quick tempo and clean playing as always…
Matt Palmer plays the Andante from Sonatina by Spanish composer Federico Moreno Torroba (1891-1982). This comes via his great YouTube Channel and his sponsor, Strings by Mail. Expressive but still nice and clean playing. The guitar was a January 2016 model…
Peter Graneis plays Courante from Suite XVIII (originally G major) by Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687 – 1750). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their great YouTube channel. Really nice playing here by Graneis with some excellent cross-string ornaments and clean, crisp but…
The amazing Canadian Henderson-Kolk Guitar Duo (Drew Henderson & Michael Kolk) play their arrangement of Duo for Violin and Viola in G major K.422 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). This comes via Henderson’s great YouTube channel. Wonderful playing as usual, it’s pure grace…
Tengyue ‘TY’ Zhang plays K53 by Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1757) on a 2003 Greg Smallman guitar. This comes via Guitar Salon International and their great YouTube channel. Shocking virtuosity here with an amazing tempo, clarity, and fantastic ornamentation. Considering what he’s doing…
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.
Alexandra Whittingham plays her arrangement of My Funny Valentine by Richard Rodgers. Filmed at Le Presbytère. This comes via her great YouTube Channel. Some very nice moments throughout her arrangement, my favourite is around 2:00.
French guitarist Thomas Viloteau plays Suite Populaire Brésilienne by (1887-1959). In order: Mazurka-Chôro; Schottish-Chôro (2:30); Valsa-Chôro (5:56); Gavota-Chôro(10:03); Chorinho (15:38). This comes via his fantastic YouTube channel. Such beautiful playing as always from Viloteau, a great mix of musicality with relaxed but straight forward delivery.
Aniello Desiderio & Zoran Dukic play Danza de la Vida Breve by Manuel de Falla (1876-1946). This comes via Maestros de la Guitarra and their YouTube. Two of the greatest guitarists of today team up and play this famous arrangement of Manuel de Falla’s work.…