Some days ago I found a concert with songs by Nick Drake. Nick Drake was a singer/songwirter who produced 3 albums between 1969 and 1972. He died in 1974 with only 26 years. Albums Five Leaves Left, 1969 Bryter Layter, 1970 Pink Moon, 1972 Nick Drake Tribute CBC Concert: no more available 18 Nick Drake […]
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In three weeks we will have Christnmas, everywhere the special Christmas fairs have opened, people are drinking “Glühwein”, and the snow has brought a nice Winter feeling. So I thought it’s time to present some videos with Christmas music. This is an mandolin orchestra from Japan who plays the famous Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson:
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Accidentally I have found a drawing of Wu Man, the chinese pipa player and some other musicians from a concert of the Silk Road Project, by Cindy Woods. Cindy Woods died from cancer in Nov. 2008. In her last years she has published almost 2000 drawings in her flickr photo strean and in her blog
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Kostas Grigoreas is a guitarist from Greece who has made many of his recordings available at youtube. In many of the videosGrigoreas plays composition for the guitar by Greek composers. Among others he plays pieces by Dimitri Fampas, Manos Hadjidakis, Akos Petik and Kyriakos Tzorzinakis. But Grigoreas has also recorded a CD with his own
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Sfida was founded in March 2004. The members of the group are playing solo- and chambermusic for mandolin, mandola, mandoloncello and guitar The name of the group “Sfida” is Italian and means “challenge”. The group has organized concerts every year, the last concert was the 14th concert and was given on Sept. 5th, 2010. Sfida
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After I have listened to Giocondas Smile by Manos Hadjidakis I want to present another famous work by this composer. In the late 1960s Hadjidakis lived in New York and made a recording of some of his compositions with a group named the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble. This LP was titled Reflections and
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The music by Hadjidakis has led me to some videos by a huge orchestra of guitars that has played concerts in Greece, especially in anold Greek amphitheater – it must have been a great event. I have selected a video with the Libertango by Astor Piazolla as first, because this video shows a little bit
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I have recently found some interesting videos of guitarists from Greece, and so I decided it was time to find some interesting music from Greece with guitar and mandolin. Today i want to present a work by Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis which is performed by a big orchestra including two mandolins and two guitars. It
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The best guitar quartets – Review by the German guitar and luth magazine Gitarre und Laute Here are some more interesting videos of great guitar quartets from the review. Corona Guitar Quartet: East L.A. Phase Corona Guitar Kvartet: www.coronaguitarkvartet.dk, composer: Wayne Siegel Aquarelle Guitar Quartet You can find several examples played by the Aquarelle Guitar
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The German guitar and luth magazine Gitarre und Laute has been published since 1979, for many years as a printed magazine but beginning with this year it is published as a blog. So you can find interesting information about the guitar and luth, editions, players or CDs. Gitarre & Laute … seit 1979! 28 Jahrgänge
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