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The Wisconsin / Vega Project – Exploring America’s Forgotten Tradition

The New Vintage Frets is an American mandolin ensemble based in Wisconsin. In 2018 this ensemble produced a CD titled: The Wisconsin/Vega Project CD This unique CD offers present day recordings of century-old mandolin ensemble arrangements thoughtfully selected from Wisconsin-based mandolin orchestra libraries. Pieces in the collection were published in either the 1890s or early 1900s. […]

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Ensemble Hikari 光 live on German TV – Denise Wambsganß & Yasuyoshi Naito (mandolin), Hirotaka Nozaki (mandola)

The Ensemble Hikari 光 has been invited to the show „Kaffee oder Tee?“ (coffee or tea?) of the German TV Station SWR on January 3rd, 2014. Now three videos have been made available at youtube. The ensemble has been founded by mandolin players from Germany and Japan and it aims to make music by Japanese composers better

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Ernesto Becucci – The famous waltz “Tesoro Mio” and other Compositions – Sheet Music for Mandolin & Guitar

Ernesto Becucci (1845 – 1905) was a popular and succesful Italian composer during the second half of the 19th century. Especially his composition “Tesoro Mio” has been successful all over the world. His compositions have also been arranged for mandolin and mandolin orchestra. In the monthly reports about published music (Hofmeisters Monatsberichte) from 1906 I

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The Mandolin Symposium 2015

Videos from the Mandolin Symposium 2015 have been made available in the youtube channel  Mandotunes. The videos form the Friday night concert include teacher performances with Mike Marshall, Caterina Lichtenberg, Don Stiernberg, Sharon Gilchrist, Dudu Maia, Rich del Grosso, Roland White, Mike Mullins and the different student ensembles. The playlist does also include videos of the

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A Concert with the TonArt Quartet – With Natalja Korsak and Nikolai Maretzky

The TonArt Quartet is a profesional mandolin ensemble composed of Sabine Marz – mandolin Natalia Korsak – mandolin Nicholas Maretsky – mandola Marina Romeyko – piano This quartet has given a concert in the Philharmony in Minsk on October 24th 2014. A set of videos from this concert is available at youtube. The TonArt quartet

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Stephen Lalor – Australian Mandolin Player and Composer for Plucked Instruments

Stephen Lalor is a mandolin player and composer who lives in Australia. I have met Stephen during the Eurofestival Zupfmusik 2014 in Bruchsal. Many of Stephen’s compositions are available as youtube videos. One of my favorite compositions – Kolo Kolo – is available in two different versions. The first recording is played by the Volatinsky

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London Mandolin Ensemble

London 2013 – A Rehearsal with the London Mandolin Ensemble – Travis Finch – BMG Festivals 1949 and 1955

The London Mandolin Ensemble was founded in 2012. In previous years existed an earlier London Mandolin Ensemble, but for many years there was not much mandolin ensemble music in London. London Mandolin Ensemble is a small chamber orchestra of around a dozen musicians and conductor. Our members are keen plucked string players from London and

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Music from Venezuela for Mandolin and other Plucked Instruments – My Playlists

In this post I have compiled several playlists with music for mandolin and other stringed instruments from Venezuela. I have a page on my website mandoisland about the mandolin and other interesting information about the music in Venzuela. MandoIsland Website: mandoisland.de Page about music in Venezuela: http://www.mandoisland.de/weblog_venezuela.html Music from Venezuela Venezuela – Percujazz (Cuatro/Bandola) Bandola

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A Romantic Mandolin Concert in Taiwan with Yahui Chen and the Taipe Mandolin Ensemble

Mandolin players from Taiwan with Yahui Chen (Mandoline) have given a Romantic Mandolin Concert in the library of the Hsing Tien Temple in Taipe on Feb. 25th. The videos of this concert are available at youtube. I have made the following playlist with the complete concert: Playlist Taipe Mandolin Ensemble Feb. 12, 2012 Program 1. Andante

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