Mandolin and Fiddle – Jake Jolliff and Alex Hargreaves Jake Jolliff belongs to the great young mandolin players in the uSA. He plays in the band Joy Kills Sorrow, but also as a duo together with Alex Hargreaves on the fiddle. A complete concert of the duo has recently been filmed and is available at […]
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Some time ago I have discovered the videos by the Duo Maple, a duo with mandolin and guitar from Japan. The duo occasionally adds other players with instruments like the Japanese instruments shamisen and shakuhachi, a second guitar, an accordeon or even a bagpipe to its program. Yoko Eto (mandolin) and Shinji Nordtor (guitar, mandola)
Durning my holidays this year I had taken with me a book from which I like to play every now and then: 300 Fiddle Tunes – Fiddle Songbooks published by Hal Leonard. This book is a collection of 300 Irish pieces for fiddle or mandolin, and almost every piece in this collection sounds great and
Avi Avital has just recorded a new CD with music by Johann Sebastian Bach with Deutsche Grammophone. I have compiled some videos and interviews with Avi Avital. Avi Avital Performs Bloch’s “Nigun” from Baal Shem Avi Avital presents Bach Watch the trailer of Avi Avital’s debut album on Deutsche Grammophon including transcriptions of Bach’s Violin
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Capriccio Zingaresco ジプシー風綺想曲 Ryo Aoyama Mandolin マンドリン The Capriccio Zingaresco by Enrico Marucelli is beeing played by the young Japanese mandolin player Ryo Aoyama. Zigeunerweisen / Izumi Toru (Mandolin) , Fujii Yumi (pf) Playlist Zigeunerweisen I have compiled many versions of this famous piece, played by the mandolin players Izumi Toru and Onishi Kozo, by the mandolin orchestras from
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I have recently listened to several videos with a tune for mandolin composed by Mark O’Connor – – A Bowl of Bula. Mark O’Connor is today mainly known as a violin player and teacher. He has recorded many great CDs, including Appalachia Waltz which he recorded together with bass player Edgar Meyer and cello player
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The Punch Brothers with Chris Thile (mandolin) have just given another concert on Mountain Stage which is available at NPR. They played a set with some pieces from their new CD. You can find all available performances with the Punch Brothers at NPR using the following link: Punch Brothers at NPR http://www.npr.org/2012/06/12/154855216/punch-brothers-on-mountain-stage The NPR has
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Last month the yearly Merlefest took place in Wilkesboro. One of the shows is named Mando Mania – an all mandolin performance where some of the best mandolin players join to show that it is possible to play great music just with mandolins. Mando Mania has first been organized by Tony Williamson in 1994 and
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Anthony Hannagan has posted the following video at Facebook – a film from a concert with Jethro Burns, Don Stiernberg and John Parrot from 1985 at Adler House. This has been filmed by Paul Goelz who shows many more videos from the 80s in his youtube channel: And don’t forget to check out my YouTube
Sweet Melancholy Op. 235 is part of a collection of four pieces by Carlo Munier. This collection can be found as Nelly Album in the Nakano library. The first two pieces have the main titles in English, with subtitles in French and Italian. The four pieces are: Sweet Melancholy ❉ Douce Mélancoli ❉ Dolce Mestizia,
