I have just discovered several great videos showing the German guitarist Siegfried Behrend and the German Plucked Strings Orchestra (Deutsches Zupforchester). In those videos you can see Takashi and Sylvia Ochi on the mandolin playing a concerto for two mandolins by Antonio Vivaldi, Takashi Ochi plays a part of a Sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven. […]
Recently I have listened to many video clips from a great playlist that I have found – a playlist about the baroque guitar, the lute and other baroque instruments. One of the many great videos that I have listened to was a clip by Rob MacKillop who first plays a tarantella piece and afterwards explains
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I have just written about the guitar construction movies by Tiyoto Kanaka which show the construction of a guitar in many detailed steps. Some time ago I have found the following video which shows the construction of a classical guitar using time laps in little more than 5 minutes. The guitar was built within 10
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I have discovered the facebook profile of Kiyoto Tanaka, a Japanese luthier who builds romantic guitars and other instruments. Kiyoto Tanaka has documented the construction of his guitars in very detailed videos. It looks like magic how he uses his Japanese woodworking tools to take some wood and make a beautiful guitar out of it.
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Siegfried Behrend was a musician who had a big influence as a guitarist, composer, teacher and conductor. Until his early death in 1990 he has especially initiated many new developements for the music of the plucked instruments and mandolin orchestras. Siegfried Behrend has founded and directed the German Mandolin Orchestra (Das Deutsche Zupforchester). Many of
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A tweet by Sarah Jarosz led me to the Homepage of the Nashville Public Radio and I am just now listening to a radio show with the Kruger Brothers. The first piece by the Kruger Brothers in this show is Deena – a very beautiful song, unfortunately I have not found a video of this
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The studies by Matteo Carcassi were the first bigger pieces for the classical guitar that I have learned. Those studies are great to develop a solid technique for the classical guitar, and at the same time they are great music too. I used an edition by Silvio Ranieri (Edition Crantz) who was a famous mandolin-
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Martin Seeliger has started to build steelstring guitars in Germany in the earl 1980s. Today his brand Lakewood Guitars is known as a source for great guitars for fingerpickers, and many great artists are playing Lakewood guitars. On the website of the German guitar magazine Akustik Gitarre you can find a very interesting video with
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Today I have found an article about a recent concert with Eliot Fisk in New York: Guitarist, in Charge, Plays Well With Others So I decided to collect some videos and information about this great guitar virtuoso of our time. Here is my playlist with some videos including pieces like Aria detta la Frescobalda by
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Today i have selected some videos of the concerto for lute, violins and basso continuo in d major by Antonio Vivaldi. This concerto is played quite often by different ensembles. I have played this many years ago together with the mandolin orchestra of Baden (Badisches Zupforchester). The first video has just been added to youtube.
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