Olivier Metra has composed some famous and often played pieces. La Serenade – a Spanish Waltz – is one of his big successes I had previously heard the name Metra because some of his compositions are played by mandolin orchestras. But I haqve never played or really recognized one of Metras compositions. But some time […]
La Serenade – Valse Espagnole – A Famous Spanish Waltz by Olivier Metra Read More »
On the border between Germany and Poland, in the city of Zgorzelec the mandolin orchestra Zgorzelecka Orkiestra Mandolinistów has been founded in 1989. Zgorzelec is the neighbor city to the German city Gorlitz. You can find information about this mandolin orchestra on its homepage – if you understand the Polish language, or if you use
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Street of Dreams M. Hadjidakis, ATTIKA Plucked String Orchestra Performed by ATTIKA Sextet at “Syn kai Plin” television music magazine http://www.attikaorchestra.gr http://www.myspace.com/attikaorchestra Mandolin: Aris Dimitriadis, Giannis Goumenakis Mandola alto: Giorgos Goumenakis Mandola tenore: Panayiotis Lampropoulos Guitar: Michalis Sidiropoulos Piano: Dimitris Giannis Description of the Attika Plucked String Orchestra from Homepage: The Orchestra was founded in
Mandolins in Greece – The Attika Plucked String Orchestra Read More »
The mandolin orchestra Het Consort from the Netherlands was founded 20 years ago. On October 16, 2010 a big anniversary concert will be given in Amsterdam. The orchestra has produced an impressive 15 minute video about the past 20 years, with some great music examples and a lot of information about the orchestra. During the
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Some days ago I have found (by a tweet from twitter) the following video of a Japanese mandolin orchestra: じょんがら (translation of the information from the video): guitars mandolin club. Omura, held at City Hall in May, has played up the 54th Music Festival Union High School in Nagasaki Prefecture. Was cut in half the
Jongara – Hiro Fujikake / Yasuo Kuwahara Read More »
Hiro Fujikake or Fujikake Hiroyuki – which is the proper name in Japan – is one of the most important composers of Japan. He has won several prices, the following is an excerpt from the Hiro Fujikake Fan page The Fantastic World of Hiro Fujikake: Since his university days he has won lots of prizes
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Recently I have found some videos of a new composition for mandolin orchestra and percussion by Australian composer Richard Charlton: The adventures of the Duyfken The vessel Duyfken was a Dutch ship that was the first ship to reach Australia in 1606: In 1606, the small Dutch ship Duyfken sailed from the Indonesian island of
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I found the following video and as it is a very rare combination I want to present it in my blog. Last year a special compoetition for the Baglama – an instrument popular in Turkey and played by many immigrants from Turkey in Germany as well – was included in the German competition for young
Koray Berat Sari, Baglama and Mandolin Orchestra Jugenzupforchester NRW Read More »
The ‘Orchestra mandolinistica di Lugano’ (Ticino, southern Switzerland) is probably the best mandolin orchestra in Switzerland today. More than 40 pieces played by this mandolin orchestra are available as youtube videos, including original traditional Italian mandolin music by Calace, Munier or Mezzacapo, original compositions for the modern mandolin orchestra like the Capriccio by Hans Gal
