Today I have watched some videos with the Modern Mandolin Quartet from the early days of this ensemble with Mike Marshall. I think those videos belong to the best videos with a mandolin quartet – composed of two mandolins, mandola and a mandocello. The modern mandolin quartet is the plucked strings equivalent of a classical […]
Recently I have discovered two videos with historical recordings from a 78 record by the group Bonetti Brothers Melody Makers with mandolin. The Mandolin Serenade has been composed by Dario C. Bonetti. I have found some information about Dario C. Bonetti in the archive of the University of Iowa Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua in the
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London is the musical capital of the world. I think almost every musical you can think of can be seen in London. In the Victoria & Albert Museum we saw an interesting exhibition about theatre and entertainment, with a display about the costumes used in Lion King. We had seen the ads for the musical
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The London Mandolin Ensemble was founded in 2012. In previous years existed an earlier London Mandolin Ensemble, but for many years there was not much mandolin ensemble music in London. London Mandolin Ensemble is a small chamber orchestra of around a dozen musicians and conductor. Our members are keen plucked string players from London and
On Wednesday we attended a concert with Orianthi in the 100 Club, Oxford Street. We had to wait for a long time in the typical English queue until we were let in, and event then we had to wait more until Orianthi came to the stage. Orianthi is a young guitarist with Greek / Australian
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The first concert during our holiday in London was a free concert which took place in the National Portrait Gallery. Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas played a program with guitar music from Cuba by Leo Brouwer, Eduardo Martin and José Antonio (Ñico) Rojas Beoto. Ahmed Dickinson has transcribed may pieces by Nico Rojas and made those available for
I have found Maxim Cormier on twitter when he posted about his new recording project. He has started a campaign with indiegogo to raise the money for his next CD. He plans to record the new CD together with his father Gervais Cormier: Hi, My name is Maxim Cormier. In the links below, you’ll find
I have recently found a note about the Duo Conversa at twitter. The Duo Conversa is composed of Lydie Barrancos (flute) and Pascal Bournet (guitar). The duo plays music from South America and from Ireland, a great selection with good arrangements. With its original repertoire of creations and arrangements around themes from the whole world,
In this post I have compiled several playlists with music for mandolin and other stringed instruments from Venezuela. I have a page on my website mandoisland about the mandolin and other interesting information about the music in Venzuela. MandoIsland Website: mandoisland.de Page about music in Venezuela: http://www.mandoisland.de/weblog_venezuela.html Music from Venezuela Venezuela – Percujazz (Cuatro/Bandola) Bandola
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Calum Graham is a young guitarist from Canada who is already a master of his instrument. Three years ago he won the first price at the Canadian Guitar Festival with this fantastic and incredible performance. Canadian Guitar Festival 2010: Finalist 1, Song 2 – 1st Place (Calum Graham – “The Channel”) Calum has just released
