Classical Guitar

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Video Pick of the Week: Tatyana Ryzhkova Plays Arcas’ ‘Fantasia on Themes from La Traviata’

Was this piece—based on motifs from three arias from Giuseppe Verdi’s popular 1853 opera La Traviata—written by Spanish...

LAGQ Premieres Pat Metheny’s ‘Road to the Sun’

BY MARK SMALL On October 20, 2016, at the University of Denver’s Newman Center, the Los Angeles Guitar...

Recent Releases Tuesday: Albums by Meng Su, Raphaella Smits, Michaela Hrabankova & Gabriel Bianco, and Mark Westling

Here’s our bi-weekly listing of some of the CDs that have come into the Classical Guitar office recently. If you...

Recent Releases Tuesday: Sheet Music by Mozart, Máximo Diego Pujol, Salvatore Seminara, and Michel Dalle Ave

We get so much sheet music sent to us by various publishers year ’round—literally hundreds of pieces in...

Zagreb Hosting Big International Guitar Fest and Competition

One of the first big European guitar festivals and competitions of the spring, the third Zagreb Guitar Festival,...

Video Pick of the Week: The Möller-Fraticelli Guitar Duo Plays Justo Tomás Morales’ Sensual ‘Milonga Argentina’

Here’s a piece you may not know which will undoubtedly get your blood pumpin’: Milonga Argentina by the great...

Recent Releases Tuesday: CDs by James Akers & Gary Branch, Karol Samuelčík, Josef Mazan, and John Lehman-Haupt

Here’s our bi-weekly listing of some of the CDs that have come into the Classical Guitar office recently. If you...

Iberian Magic: Pepe Romero Live in San Francisco

Review by Blair Jackson Pepe Romero Herbst Theatre, San Francisco February 4, 2017 What’s in a name? Well,...

Recent Releases Tuesday: Sheet Music from Nick Fletcher, Nicolas Guay, John Cage, and Luc Gueugneau

We get so much sheet music sent to us by various publishers year ’round—literally hundreds of pieces in...

Phoenix Guitar Company Shows Its Jazz Classical Model at Winter NAMM 2017

George Leach of the Phoenix Guitar Company stopped by our booth at the Winter 2017 NAMM convention in...

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Stories

Christopher Mallett’s ‘Justin Holland: Guitar Works and Arrangements’

Album Review: ‘The Blue Album’ by Pablo Sáinz-Villegas

Profile: Classical Guitar Great Raphaella Smits

The Classics

‘Forbidden’ Fifths in Guitar Music From Sor and Before to Hendrix and Beyond