Watch Gaëlle Solal Play Villa-Lobos’ ‘Choros No. 1’ Talk about versatile! French guitarist Gaëlle Solal has long been an outstanding solo guitarist, taking on repertoire that...
Video Pick of the Week: Alexandra Whittingham Plays Albéniz’s ‘Capricho Catalán’ Here’s another choice clip from the talented 20-year-old English guitarist Alexandra Whittingham—a beautifully expressive version of Isaac Albéniz’s Capricho Catalán,...
Watch Antonio López Palacios Play Erik Satie’s ‘Gnossienne No. 3’ on 8-String Guitar Erik Satie (1866–1925) was one of France’s most influential and, some might say, eccentric composers and pianists of...
Watch France’s Trio Alborada Play Saint-Saëns’ ‘Danse Macabre’ This French guitar trio has been around for about a dozen years, and their most recent release, called Diabolus...
Watch ChromaDuo’s Cool Conceptual Video of Ravel’s ‘Modéré très franc’ Here’s a piece from one of my favorite albums of 2016, Ravel, Debussy: Music for Two Guitars by...
Sunday Prodigy #3: Conor Padmanabhan (13) Plays Roland Dyens’ ‘Tango en Skai’ Our latest classical guitar wunderkind is 13-year-old Conor Padmanabhan of Palo Alto, California. Conor is a student of...
Video Pick of the Week: Steve Cowan and Adam Cicchillitti Play Debussy’s ‘Bruyéres’ Prelude Between 1909 and 1913, Claude Debussy (1862–1918) wrote two books of solo piano preludes, 24 total. This week’s...
New Flamenco-inspired Guitars from Alvarez at Winter NAMM 2018 Our final video blast from the 2018 NAMM show in Anaheim features a pair of popularly priced instruments...
Marchione Guitars Unveils New Classical at Winter NAMM 2018 In the Fall 2017 issue Classical Guitar, our main instrument reviewer, Adam Perlmutter, rhapsodized about one of Marchione Guitars’...
Ortega Guitars Shows Ben Woods Signature, Private Room Series, and More at Winter NAMM 2018 In this video from Winter NAMM 2018 in Anaheim, California, Ortega Guitars rep Jeremy Page showed us several...