One of the interesting pieces for mandolin and guitar in the Biblioteca della chitarra e del mandolino is the Serenade by Giuseppe Silvestri. I have found recordings of this tune at youtube and also a historical recording in the National Jukebox of the Library of Congress. The first recording is from the Mandolin Festival in […]
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Some days ago I have downloaded a piece played by Eric Thompson from the Acoustic Oasis site. This made me curious about Eric Thompson and I have searched for more music. I found many videos with Eric Thompson playing guitar and also an old Gibson F4 mandolin. Suzy and Eric Thompson SHORTENIN’ BREAD.mp4 The next
Montuno ist the second CD by the Duo ReCuerda with Jeannette and Vicente Mozos del Campo. The CD contains compositions for mandolin and guitar by Luca Mereu, Burkhard Wolters and Hartmut Klug as well as transcriptions of compositions by George Gershwin and Astor Piazzolla. Most of those pieces have probably been recorded for the first
On the website http://www.justclassicalguitar.com/vpmusicmedia/biblioteca.php I have found the sheet music for the famous Serenade Op. 6 by Enrico Toselli for mandolin and guitar. Biography of Enrico Toselli on the website of the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/music/artists/a3856768-44f6-4209-a8c4-4d70adff516d and Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enrico_Toselli Enrico Toselli (March 13, 1883 Florence – January 15, 1926 Florence) was an Italian pianist and composer. He
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I have just found 4 youtube videos with historical recordings of the Athenian Mandolin Quartet, which is also known as the Alessios de Filippis Mandolin Quartet. More recordings of this groups are available on Edision cylinders on the site of the cylinder conservation project and in the Library of Congress. These are the recordings made
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Some days ago I have discovered two very interesting mandolin methods in the digital archive of the University of Rochester. The mandolin methods can be downloaded for free. In this archive I have also discovered a collection of Neapolitan Songs from the 19th century collected by Vincenzo De Meglio. The first method is C. Fischer’s
The 2nd European Mandolin and Guitar Academy took place in Trossingen from Nov. 7th – 11th, 2011. I had to work on Monday and Tuesday and missed the first one and a half days. When I arrived on Wednesday morning at the Bundesakademie in Trossingen Don Stiernberg was just talking about his musical biography and
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During one of the sessions at the European Mandolin and Guitar Academy in Trossingen a great slow waltz was played – Josefin’s Waltz. This tune has been composed by Roger Tallroth who plays guitar and bouzouki in the Swedish folk rock band Väsen. Mike Marshall told that he has played this tune very often when
Recently I have discovered a nice piece for the mandolin – the cakewalk South Car’lina Tickle by Adam Geibel. I found this when I played through a collection of mandolin pieces that was published as the Majestic Collection at the beginning of the 20th century. Adam Geibel lived from 1855 until 1933, so the copyright
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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,
