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Recent Releases Tuesday: Intriguing Albums by Kenneth Meyer, Flamenco Pacifico, and Jonathan Richards

Most Tuesdays we take a peak at recent albums or sheet music releases. Here are three of the...

Old and New Meet at Altamira Hong Kong Guitar Fest: A Report

The Second Altamira Hong Kong International Guitar Symposium and Competition, held August 9–13 at the Hong Kong Academy...

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...

Rare Guitars Once Owned by Harvey Hope to Be Auctioned

All you (really) long-time readers of Classical Guitar might recognize the name Harvey Hope from the masthead of...

‘New Elizabethan Award’ Competition Announced for 2018

Here’s some exciting news that comes our way from the Musicians Company of the City of London, who...

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,...

Recent Releases Tuesday: Albums from Sharon Isbin & Isabel Leonard, Boyd Meets Girl, and Silvana Saldaña

For the next few weeks, we’re going to break our usual bi-weekly Tuesday format of alternating glimpses at new...

Great Performances and Room for Improvement: A Report from China’s 6th Changsha Guitar Festival

By Steve Mann, photos by Leah Peng By now, the Changsha Guitar Festival is very well established. Each...

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...

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