Ektara (Bengali: একতারা, Punjabi: ਇਕ ਤਾਰਾ; literally “one-string”, also called iktar, ektar, yaktaro gopichand) is a one-string instrument most often used in traditional music from Bangladesh, India, Egypt, and Pakistan. In origin the ektara was a regular string instrument of wandering bards and minstrels from India and is plucked with one finger. The ektara usually […]
Naxos Records has recorded a CD featuring Marcin Dylla, the winner of the 2007 GFA (Guitar Foundation of America) Guitar Competition. Here he plays “Junto al Generalife” by Joaquin Rodrigo. Produced in Toronto by Norbert Kraft.
“The earlier Danza Españolas date from the last decade of the nineteeth century and were one of the first works to proclaim and establish once and for all the new spirit of the Spanish nationalism. Even so, the Danza Española No. 4 – a Villanesca, is not through with echoes of the Scandinavian Grieg, though […]
The guitarIst Julian Bream plays mallorca op.202 in F sharp minor by Isaac Albéniz. the piece was written for piano in 1890 and transcribed for the classical guitar by Andrés Segovia.
Daniel Bolshoy playing Campanas del Alba on a classical double-top guitar by Martin Blackwell. Recorded in Pyatt Hall, Vancouver Symphony Orchestra School of Music, 2011
Enrique Granados y Campiña (1867 – 1916) originally composed this set of pieces for piano: 12 Spanish Dances (Op. 37). Violão/Guitar: Luthier Jorge Raphael MG – Brazil/Brasil Neither cuts nor effects/Sem cortes nem efeitos. Publi Domain: http://musopen.org/music/piece/346
NEW 2010 A CD mutch more “professionnal ” :-)) http://www.productionsdoz.com/c378116040p17554519.1.html Between Flamenco and clasical music, this little piece, rarely or never (?)recorded, I like to play on concert Frequently, people, guitarist, ask to me : “but, why, this malaguena called “facil”?? I answer “perhaps, I suppose for him, Tarrega, it was facil, and simply, because […]