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I first met Matt Palmer at the Koblenz festival in 2005 and I observed a steady flow of guitarists approaching him asking for a demonstration of his astounding technique. Apart from his innate musicality and facility on the guitar, it was Palmer’s exceptional deployment of ami fingerings that beguiled other guitarists. Not only was it [...]
Concert review, June 21 Le Poisson Rouge, New York Milos Karadaglic, a 27 year old musician from Montenegro, has recently taken quite an extraordinary path for a classical guitarist. Signed by Deutsche Grammophon, Milos has been traveling extensively promoting his newly released CD “Mediterraneo”. Additionally, Milos has been popping up in several mainstream publications such [...]
CD – Jeux Interdits & other famous guitar encores Transart TR168 Artist – Filomena Moretti Reviewing recordings is easiest when they aren’t very good. I mean, it’s easier to be critical, right? People have made careers doing just that. Putting aside, for the moment, the angst of writing something that may devastate the career of [...]
Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the concert given by John Williams last Thursday was that it was five minutes down the road from where I have been staying and I had no idea about it till the night before! Needless to say, I was very happy to get the news from a friend after [...]
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 [...]
Beautiful, strong, and damn expensive. The accord cases have been around for some time now and they have done well to establish a reputation for making quality carbon fiber cases for a range of purposes. Appearance Simply put, these cases are beautiful. With a high gloss finish or matte finish and a sculptured, curvaceous frame [...]
This year marked the 30th anniversary for the Festival de la Guitarra de Cordoba. With more than 30 performances over a range of styles, classes in a variety of genres and multiple performance venues, this is one of the most varied guitar festivals in Europe. Located in the Andalusian city of Cordoba, participants of the [...]
Stephen Funk Pearson is an accomplished composer and performer who lives in Massachusetts, USA. With a career spanning multiple continents and a variety of music genres, Funk Pearson has made a significant contribution to the classical guitar’s repertory writing solo and chamber pieces of great originality. His latest recording, Artists Around the World Perform Stephen [...]
The quiet, intimate nature of the guitar is one of its most endearing characteristics and there are few guitarists around the world who haven’t stayed up late into the night playing in solitude. Stuart Weber’s new recording The Fifth Row manages to capture the reflective and intimate nature of the guitar and it also has [...]
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