Talentos – Duo Siqueira Lima A TV- show from Brazil with the guitar duo Siqueira Lima. This duo plays an interesting repertoir of Brazilian and classical guitar music. In this program the duo plays mainly the Brazilian pieces, pieces by Baden Powell, Pixinguinha (Um a Zero), Astor Piazzolla but also a piece by Andrew York. […]
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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
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
I have recently discovered the Tiny Desk Concert video with guitarist and banjo player Glenn Jones. You can watch this video at NPR and download the audio version. http://www.npr.org/event/music/145511760/glenn-jones-tiny-desk-concert It is also available as youtube video: Glenn Jones: NPR Music Tiny Desk Concerts The following text can be found on the NPR site: Glenn Jones
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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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I was surprised to find a set of ca. 20 video clips from a concert in Monterosi – a place close to Rome – from a concert with traditional Roman and Neapolitan songs played with mandolin, violin and guitar. I had found a note about a concert for mandolin and guitar in Rome with Damiano
This morning I have listened to a radio show with a Charlie Louvin interview at NPR – World Cafe Looks Back: Country And Bluegrass. The Louvin Brothers were very popular between 1955 and 1963, Ira Louvin played mandolin and Charlie played the guitar. The harmony singing of this duo was great. The interview was recorded
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The Ensemble La Volta from Switzerland knows very well how to present the plucked instruments of the world and the typical music for those instruments in their concerts. When you visit a concert by La Volta you can hear and see all kinds of plucked instruments. Every member of the group plays several instruments, and
Carlo Munier is one of the most important composers for the mandolin of the 19th century. Munier has composed about 300 pieces for mandolin, mandolin and guitar, mandolin quartet, mandolin and piano, two mandolins, mandolin trio and more. The works by Carlo Munier for mandolin are played frequently, and there is a great number of
Bantu is the name of a piece for four guitars by Andrew York. I have dicovered this piece on the CD Labyrinth by the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Like in Rumba by Stepan Rak the guitars are also used as percussion instruments. Andrew York has been a member of the LAGQ for many years. He
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