I have recently discovered this great video produced by the Philharmonia Orchestra from London (UK) with Nigel Woodhouse. Nigel Woodhouse is a guitarist who does also play the mandolin, the banjo and other fretted instruments. Nigel plays a Neapolitan (or Roman) mandolin based on a mandolin by Luigi Embergher and made for Nigel in 1993 …
I have recently started working on a new tune with my student – Dargason. This tune goes back to John Playfords book about dancing – it just one line of music with instructions how to dance to the tune. On the abc notation website you can find this tune as well: This tune is related …
Pasquale Troise (1895 – 1957) was born in Naples in 1895. He came to Great Britan during the 1920, first as a member of the London Radio Dance Band, but soon founded his own orchestra, the Selecta Plectrum Mandoline Orchestra, which was later renamed to Troise and his Mandoliers. When the banjo became more popular …
Troise and his Mandoliers / Banjoliers – Historical Mandolin Orchestra Recordings Read More »
Simon Mayor is maybe the most active mandolin player in the UK. He plays everything from classical music to bluegrass. Simon has also releases many instructional books and mandolin methods. I have found the following video of the famous Minute Waltz some months ago, it was filmed during a Christmas concert. This video shows that …
Simon Mayor and the Mandolinquents – Great Mandolin Music from the UK Read More »