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Peter Graneis plays La Gaubança by Asencio

Peter Graneis plays La Gaubança from Collectici Intim by Vicente Asencio (1908–1979) on a 2010 Andrés. D. Marvi guitar.This comes via Siccas Guitars and their great YouTube channel. Great playing by Graneis, lots of crisp articulations, excitement, but some nice sweet…

Hanna Link plays Serenade by Gubaidulina

Hanna Link plays Serenade by Sofia Gubaidulina (b.1931). This comes via Siccas Guitars and their great YouTube Channel and played on a Francois Regis Leonard guitar. Great piece, and well played by this young artist. You can also see her perform in quartet with…

Ana Vidovic plays Cello Prelude No. 1 by Bach

Ana Vidovic plays the Prelude from from the Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major BWV 1007 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). “This video was recorded during a concert in November 2016 at the Asamsal in Ettlingen, Germany.” This comes…

Matthew McAllister Plays Barrios on Four Guitars

Scottish guitarist Matthew McAllister plays the third movement of La Catedral, Allegro solemne by Agustín Barrios (1885–1944) on four different guitars. This comes via the excellent Siccas Guitars and their constantly updated YouTube channel. Always a pleasure to hear the very musical Matthew McAllister and a fun addition…

Lesson: Slurs on Guitar by Matthew McAllister

The amazing Scottish guitarist and teacher Matthew McAllister gives a lesson on ascending and descending slurs (hammer-ons and pull-offs) on guitar. This comes via the excellent Siccas Guitars and their constantly updated YouTube channel.  Bravo to both. 15 minute discussion and lesson including tips on technique, musical…

Aros Guitar Duo Play Franck

Aros Guitar Duo play an arrangement of Prelude by Belgium/French composer César Franck (1822-1890) on two 2016 Duo Yulong Guo Chamber Concert Doubletop guitars. This comes via the amzing Siccas Guitars and their great YouTube channel. Quite a pretty arrangement with some nice…

Ivan Petricevic Plays Gigue BWV 1004 by Bach

Ivan Petricevic plays Gigue BWV 1004 by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) on a 2011 Dieter Müller Doubletop.This comes via the excellent Siccas Guitars and their fantastic YouTube channel. “Petricevic was born in 1987. Belgrade, former Yugoslavia. He studied in the class of Ante…

Julia Trintschuk Plays Sonata No. 1 by Guastavino

Julia Trintschuk plays Sonata No. 1 Allegro by Carlos Guastavino on a 2016 Roy Fankhänel Special Edition guitar. This comes via the excellent Siccas Guitars and their fantastic YouTube channel. “Carlos Guastavino (1912-2000) was one of the foremost Argentine composers of the 20th…

Matteo Staffini plays Oremus by Tárrega

Italian guitarist Matteo Staffini plays Oremus by Spanish composer Francisco Tárrega (1852–1909)  on a José Ramirez Ex Segovia. Staffini has also written a large amount of works for guitar which you can check out at this site.  This comes via the…

McAllister Lesson: Vibrato on Guitar

Matthew McAllister gives a lesson on vibrato for guitar. This comes via the excellent Siccas Guitars and their fantastic YouTube channel. Great lesson with much information regarding the bigger-picture in terms of using vibrato in the context of music in general. If you’re looking for a technique…

Marcin Dylla Plays Prelude No. 2 by Villa-Lobos

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…

Lesson: Practicing Musically by Matthew McAllister

Matthew McAllister gives a lesson in practicing guitar musically. This comes via the excellent Siccas Guitars and their fantastic YouTube channel. Here’s a great lesson about listening and practicing in a musical way. Practicing technique will only take you so far, you must engage…