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Guitar-as-Chamber-Instrument Week, #5: Svari-Kanti (guitar-violin-tabla) Play ‘The Fire of Intention’

To celebrate (and amplify) the Special Focus section in the new Spring 2019 issue of Classical Guitar, we’re posting...

Guitar-as-Chamber-Instrument Week, #4: Guitar-Piano Duo Adentro Plays Mvt. 1 of Schubert’s ‘Arpeggione Sonata’

To celebrate (and amplify) the Special Focus section in the new Spring 2019 issue of Classical Guitar, we’re posting...

Guitar-as-Chamber-Instrument Week, #3: Pascal Bournet and Cindy Descamps (clarinet) Play Piazzolla’s Emotional ‘Oblivion’

To celebrate (and amplify) the Special Focus section in the new Spring 2019 issue of Classical Guitar, we’re...

Recent Albums by Raphaella Smits, Nora Buschmann, and Xuefei Yang & Mengla Huang (Violin)

Some weeks we take a peek at recent albums or sheet music releases. Here are three of the...

Guitar-as-Chamber-Instrument Week, #2: Guitar-Flute Azuline Duo Plays Máximo Diego Pujol’s ‘Nubes de Buenos Aires’

To celebrate (and amplify) the Special Focus section in the new Spring 2019 issue of Classical Guitar, we’re posting...

Guitar-as-Chamber-Instrument Week, #1: Cello-Guitar Duo Kottos Play Thomas Newman’s ‘Road to Perdition’

To celebrate (and amplify) the Special Focus section in the new Spring 2019 issue of Classical Guitar, we’re...

Nicolas Kahn Wins Inaugural EuroStrings Composition Competition!

French guitarist, composer, and teacher Nicolas Kahn was named the winner of EuroStrings’ first annual Composition Competition, for...

Happy 80th Birthday, Leo Brouwer!

OK, it’s true that we’ve posted a lot about Cuban maestro Leo Brouwer in the last year, between...

Video Pick of the Week: Katrin Endrikat Plays the Sarabande from Bach’s Sixth Cello Suite

I’m not sure I’ve ever encountered a Bach sarabande that didn’t move me. They are reliably profound and...

The Barrios Renaissance: The Great Paraguayan Composer/Guitarist has Never Been More Popular

BY MARK SMALL | FROM THE SPRING 2019 ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR The recent wave of interest in...

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