Classical Guitar

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Video Pick of the Week: Isabella Selder and Eliška Lenhartová Play ‘Blau Mar’ by Feliu Gasull

This week’s Video Pick is really fine work from the contemporary Spanish flamenco guitarist and composer Feliu Gasull...

The Results Are In! Blair J.’s Top Ten Classical Guitar Albums of 2019!

Here for your debate, delight, and possible infuriation, is a list of my ten favorite CG albums I...

Recent Album Releases: Duo Morat-Fergo Play Schubert; Early Romantic Guitars Played by Roland Gallery; Kristen Waligora

Some weeks we take a peek at recent albums or sheet music releases. Here are three CDs I...

Video Pick of the Week: Petra Poláčková Plays Bach’s Famous ‘Chaconne’; Also, an Interview with Petra!

It feels somehow appropriate that our last Video Pick of the Week before Christmas 2019 is a piece...

Video Pick of the Week: Rossini Hayward (x4!) Plays the Seasonal ‘Coventry Carol’

Last year around this time, we posted a pair of Christmas songs played by the fine England-born, Germany-based...

Video Pick of the Week: Romania’s ARTissimo Guitar Duo Play Ponce’s ‘Intermezzo No. 1’

On December 8, 2019, we celebrate what would be the 137th birthday of the amazing Mexican composer Manuel...

Newman & Oltman Debut and Record New Duo Piece by Leo Brouwer

FROM THE FALL 2019 ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR/ PHOTOS BY MARK GREENBERG Cuban composer Leo Brouwer’s new guitar...

Recent Album Releases: José Antonio Escobar; Steve Cowan, and Stéphane de Carvalho

Some weeks we take a peek at recent albums or sheet music releases. Here are three CDs I...

Video Pick of the Week: Julian Bream Plays Granados’ ‘La Maja de Goya’

With all the political turmoil that’s enveloping us here in the U.S., this week I’m looking for a...

Video Pick of the Week: It’s Tárrega’s Birthday! Watch Sharon Isbin Play ‘Capricho Árabe’

If I’m doing my math correctly (and I’m really bad at math), November 21, 2019, is the 167th...

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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