The Trekel publishing company has established its own youtube channel about one year ago. In this channel you can find many videos of works for mandolin orchestra, mandolin ensembles, solo mandolin, guitar ensembles and solo guitar which have been published by Trekel. If you are looking for interesting works that you can play with your […]
The Karlsruhe Guitar Quartet has won the second price in a competition for guitar quartets composed of students in Gevelsberg (Gitarrenwettbewerb in Gevelsberg). The four members of the quartet are studying classical guitar at the music university of Karlsruhe: Roman Hernitscheck (Germany), Marco Lima (Brazil), Gleb Simak (Estonia), Kristjan Tamm (Estonia). Kristjan Tamm and Gleb
Karlsruhe Guitar Quartet plays Telemann and Kurt Weill’s “Moritat von Mackie Messer” Read More »
Hermann Ambrosius is one of the most important German composers for the modern mandolin orchestra named Zupforchester in Germany. His compositions are played by many orchestras in Germany and around the world. Today I have compiled all the youtube videos with works by Hermann Ambrosius. Enjoy the music of Hermann Ambrosius. ♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬♬ Feierlicher Reigen Hermann
Konrad Wölki was one of the composers in Germany who made the move from the traditional mandolin orchestra (Mandolinenorchester) to the modern mandolin orchesra (Zupforchester). His first compositions were big ouvertures intended for large orchestras in the more traditional style, but later he started to look back into history and start compose in a style
The mandolin orchestra “Mandolinata Karlsruhe” has been filmed during a concert given in Logroño last year. The complete concert is available at youtube. The concert took place during the XIV Festival Internacional de Instrumentos Populares de La Rioja 2011. This orchestra is conducted by Christopher Grafschmidt who is a guitar player, musicologist and composer. He
Recently I have added a scan with music for classical guitar to my website www.mandoisland.de as a free download. The book is Guitarre-Solostücke Leicht arrangiert von Josef Kellner Heft 4 This selection of guitar music has been published around 1900 in Munich. I do only own this part 4. On the title page you can
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
Hajo Hoffman is a violin and mandolin player from Hannover, Germany. He has played in different groups as violinist and mandolin player, he plays as sideman of Heinz Rudolf Kunze, Purple Schultz and Melva Houston. He teaches jazz violin at the music university in Hannover. Hajo Hoffman has developed his own style of mandolin playing.
Hajo Hoffmann – On Tour with his Mandolin Solo Program “Mandovocale” – New CD Read More »
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.
Elke Limbach is mandolin player and teacher who teaches mandolin and guitar in her own music school in Hennef-Sieg / Westerhausen which is close to Bonn, the former capital of Germany. Her students were very successfull in the German youth competition “Jugend Musiziert”. She is also conducting several mandolin orchestras. Together with the guitarist Kanaho
