Video Pick of the Week: Curtis Institute Quartet Plays Eric Sessler’s ‘Shift and Riff’ Here’s something a little different: A quartet of highly talented students from the highly regarded Curtis Institute of...
Video Pick of the Week: Mak Grgić Plays Francesco da Milano’s ‘Fantasia XIII’ on a Meantone Guitar OK, I’m not a guy who can talk intelligently about “meantone temperament” and the unusually fretted necks like...
Video Pick of the Week: Koshkin Guitar Duo Play ‘Ragtime’ from Nikita Koshkin’s ‘Cambridge Suite’ The Koshkin Guitar Duo—Russians Asya Selyutina and Olga Kamornik—takes its name from the prolific contemporary Russian guitar composer...
Video Pick of the Week: Julia Trintschuk Plays the Allegro from ‘Sonata No. 1’ by Carlos Guastavino One of Argentina’s most prolific and important 20th century composers, Carlos Guastavino (1912–2000) wrote more than 500 songs,...
Video Pick of the Week: Pepe Romero Plays Tárrega’s ‘Mazurka’ It’s always rewarding to spend a few minutes listening to Pepe Romero. Romero playing Tárrega? I call that...
Video Pick of the Week: Alexandra Whittingham Plays Piazzolla’s ‘Verano Porteño’ Nineteen-year-old English guitarist Alexandra Whittingham has been on our radar for a while, as she keeps popping up...
Video Pick of the Week: Los Ungaros Guitar Trio Play the First Movement of Beethoven’s ‘Sonata Pathétique’ What can I say? I’ve been bingeing on Beethoven recently, having been wowed by Solo Duo‘s spectacular performance...
Video Pick of the Week: Irina Kulikova Plays Viktor Kozlov’s ‘Ballad for Beautiful Elena’ This lovely piece was penned by Russian composer-guitarist Viktor Kozlov (b.1958), who dedicated it to his wife and...
Video Pick of the Week: Kupinski Guitar Duo Plays Piazzolla’s ‘Zita’ We got such a large and overwhelmingly positive response to our Video Pick a few months ago featuring...
Video Pick of the Week: Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Larry Del Casale, and Percussionist Duduka Da Fonseca Play the Brazilian Pop Classic ‘Delicado’ Leave to a phenomenal guitarist/arranger like Carlos Barbosa-Lima to work up a splendid new version of the oft-covered...
