Rafael Aguirre Plays Waltz No.2  by Shostakovich

Rafael Aguirre performs Waltz No.2  from Suite for Variety Orchestra No. 1 by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906 -1975) at the Palau de la Música Catalana, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. This comes via Aguirre’s YouTube channel. This work is an arrangement from an orchestral work sometimes mistakenly referred to as the Suite for Jazz Orchestra. I don’t always feature repertoire like this but it is a nice and successful arrangement of this crowd pleasing fifth movement of the suite and well played by Aguirre. Beautiful concert hall and video shoot as well.

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Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.

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  1. Back in 2013 I attended a masterclass at the Bath guitar festival (U.K.) where Rafael Aguirre was one of the guest artists. He started his masterclass out on the street, sat on the pavement because we were all locked out of the building.
    I sometimes find masterclasses to be a little elitist in that the best players are being taught while everyone else looks on. Not so with him, since he got everyone involved!
    Good, isn’t he!

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