Classical Guitar

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8 Semifinalists Chosen for JoAnn Falletta Guitar Concerto Competition

The prestigious biennial JoAnn Falletta International Guitar Concerto Competition, which takes place in Buffalo, New York, on June...

Video Pick of the Week: The Sheu Pettit Duo Plays Brouwer’s ‘Sonata de los Viajeros’

The new Summer 2018 issue of Classical Guitar will be coming off the printing presses in early May,...

Recent Sheet Music Releases: Ferrer’s ‘La Traviata’ Fantasía; Barrios for Flute and Guitar; and a Tango from Giuseppe Torrisi

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

Sunday Prodigy #14: Inon (13) and Rien (10) Medjugorac Play de Lhoyer’s ‘Nocturne’ and More

For the final entry (for now, anyway) in our Sunday Prodigy series, here are Croatian sisters Inon and...

Video Pick of the Week: John Williams and Julian Bream Play Manuel de Falla’s ‘Danza Española No. 1’

Here’s a glorious blast from the past: John Williams and Julian Bream, who as a duo put out...

Spanish Magic: Recent Albums from Jorge Caballero and Kazu Suwa

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

Sunday Prodigy #13: Yossi Kohrman-Glaser Plays the Allegro from Barrios’ ‘La Catedral’

Here’s the first-place performance at the 2009 Guitar Foundation of America (GFA) International Youth Competition, Junior Division. American...

Video Pick of the Week: Tatyana Ryzhkova Plays Mauro Giuliani’s ‘Sonata in C Major Op. 15’

Belarusian guitarist Tatyana Ryzhkova has been a top player in Europe for a number of years, popular on the...

Honoring Claude Debussy: Jon Mendle Plays ‘La Fille aux cheveux de lin’ on an 11-String Archguitar

Somehow I managed to overlook the centenary of the death of French composer Claude Debussy a couple of...

Sunday Prodigy #12: Julia Lange (14), Ronja Schubert (13), and Jessica Bender (15) Play Paolo Bellinati’s ‘Baião de Gude’

This week we feature three talented young German guitarists—Julia Lange (14), Ronja Schubert (13), and Jessica Bender (15)—playing...

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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