Artful Arrangement: Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Manuel Barrueco, Bill Kanengiser, and David Russell On Translating Pieces to the Guitar BY MARK SMALL | FROM THE SPRING 2018 ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR Guitarists are sometimes chided by pianists...
Sunday Prodigy #7: Anna Likhacheva (12) Plays Tárrega’s ‘Pavana’ Anna Likhacheva, a 24-year-old who hails from Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, started taking guitar lessons at age 3,...
Video Pick of the Week: Borbála Seres Plays John W. Duarte’s ‘Idylle Pour Ida’ Here’s a lovely piece that I hadn’t heard until it appeared on Cinzia Milani’s superb A Tribute Ida...
It’s Leo Brouwer’s Birthday! Watch Duo Montesinos Tamayo Play His Arrangement of ‘She Leaving Home’ Today is composer/arranger Leo Brouwer’s 79th birthday! Feliz cumpleaños, maestro! To celebrate the occasion, please enjoy this video...
Recent Sheet Music Releases: John Cage, Spanish Renaissance Music for Guitar, and Raúl Maldonado We get so much sheet music sent to us by various publishers year ’round—literally hundreds of pieces in...
How to Use Visualization Techniques for a Successful Performance BY ANDY WHITEHEAD | FROM THE SPRING 2018 ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR How do you expect to have...
Watch Thibault Cauvin Play Duke Ellington’s ‘Take the A Train’ Here’s yet another cool arrangement by the late, great Roland Dyens, played with pizzazz by his countryman Thibault...
Sunday Prodigy #6: Kevin Loh (10) Plays Scarlatti’s Sonata K322 I was fortunate to see Kevin Loh play a couple of years ago at the GFA convention—was it...
Video Pick of the Week: Thu Le Plays Napoleon Coste’s ‘Le Départ’ The wonderful Vietnamese guitarist Thu Le started learning the instrument from her father when she was just 4 years...
Albums from Brian Farrell, Jonathan Sargent, and Mohit Dubey Most weeks we take a peek at recent albums or sheet music releases. Here are three of the...
