Published 4 January 2026 · 3:45 · Video: David Russell
David Russell’s performance of Gabriel Estarellas’s Blanco y Negro comes from the guitarist’s own channel. The piece belongs to Homenaje a Charles Chaplin, and the complete performance lasts less than four minutes.
This is a selection from earlier in 2026, rather than a newly released video. It brings a different corner of the repertoire into the Watch collection, away from the large-scale Bach and concerto transcriptions that often dominate online guitar listening.
Listening beyond the title
A title such as Blanco y Negro invites associations with cinema, but it is useful to begin with the musical evidence. Which gestures recur? Where does the character change? How much of that change comes from timing, register or tone colour?
For teachers, the short duration makes it practical to hear the whole piece before discussing a passage. Ask a student to describe its overall shape, then return to the performance to test that first impression. The original upload offers video resolution up to 4K.