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Duo Melis I had the pleasure of watching Duo Melis perform in Vienna back in 2005 and I was absolutely stunned. As you will see in the video below, they have an intensity that makes them very engaging to watch. Virtuosic skills, impeccable ensemble and warm personalities make this duo worth going out of your [...]
FESTIVAL 21 RETURNS TO BOSTON Contact: Frank Wallace, (917) 693-5603; wallacecomposer@gmail.com SPONSOR Boston Classical Guitar Society WHO Rafael Aguirre [Spain], Olson/De Cari Duo [NYC], Maarten Stragier [Belgium], Nathan Kolosko, Jose Lezcano, BCGS Community Guitar Orchestra, Back Bay Guitar Trio, others WHAT Festival 21: New Music for Classical Guitar; concerts, master class and lectures WHERE Old [...]
Tracy Anne Smith and Rob MacDonald The Raw and the Cooked (Le Cru et le Cuit) – Stephen Goss Still the Sea – Stephen Goss Adagio and Fugue – Christopher William Pierce Three Pieces for Two Guitars – Christopher William Pierce Niterói – Roland Dyens Comme des grands – Roland Dyens The debut recording by [...]
CD – The Guitar Music of Karl Korte Centaur CRC 3059 Artist – Duo46, violin and guitar How do you put into words what is essentially a “stream of consciousness” experience and capture the composer’s main ideas? It’s one thing to write about an evocative scene that describes the beauty of the Alhambra, quite another [...]
Aniello Desiderio is a wonderful performer. He gives unique interpretations of a variety of works and what has always surprised me is how he can take a very well known work, such as Asturias, and turn it into something new. Some people find his interpretations a bit jarring as they might not conform to performances [...]
Creating a full length CD is a very intensive undertaking. Microphones, audio engineers, hours upon hours of editing, album art work, replication, and remembering to thank your mother in the liner notes. In the weeks leading up to holding that first CD in your hand the prospects of selling mountains of recordings, both physical and [...]
Pavel is a one of a kind and he is a spectacular guitarist. I have never seen anyone bring out so many nuances in the guitar and evoke such an emotional response from an audience. I have seen people cry after watching him play but more often than not he will have the audience laughing [...]
Do composers care about your guitar? Guest post by M. P. Rønnei Anyone who knows me is aware that I’m a big fan of Argentinian composers. Ástor Piazzolla, Alejandro Igesias-Rossi, Máximo Diego Pujol, among others. I think my fascination can be traced to the fact that Argentina’s population is overwhelmingly of European-decent – a later [...]
In a recent interview posted over at the Classical Guitar Blog, Michael Chapdelaine brings up some issues about the classical music genre. He talked about classical music being “so serious” and that it isn’t any more special than any other type of music. The feelings that we may have about the Bach Chaconne may be [...]
I know that you have participated in the GFA several times before, did that experience help you to do so well this time? Yes, It was the third time that I participated in the GFA and what I learned from doing it before was to really prepare the required and set pieces well. In the [...]
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