Agustín Pío Barrios Mangoré was a great guitar player from Paraguay. His talent was not realized during his lifetime, but some of his compositions for solo guitar are among the most beautiful and played by this instrument. Among his most…
The great Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos wrote beautiful songs for classical guitar, inspired especially by JS Bach. Among his compositions are particularly known and executed the “5 Preludes“. The “Prelude n. 1” of Villa-Lobos is a beautiful melody in E minor,…
This interesting composition of Alex Chudnovsky titled “Winds of Paradise“, combines sounds of Renaissance and Baroque to modern quotations such as Mason Williams. Alex is of Russian origin, but living in the US, and the influences that the same Chudnovsky…
“Take the A Train” is a jazz standard composed by Billy Strayhorn. It is inspired by the “A” line of the New York metropolitan area, which at the time led by eastern Brooklyn up to Harlem and to the northern…
Federico Moreno Torroba (3 March 1891 – 12 September 1982) was a Spanish composer, born in Madrid. He is noted foremost for his important contributions to the classical guitar repertoire, although he also wrote for other instruments, including many zarzuelas…
“The House of the Rising Sun” is a traditional folk song, sometimes called “Rising Sun Blues”. The best-known version is certainly that of The Animals recorded in the sixties, but the original version is from the nineteenth century. The lyric tells…
Federico Moreno Torroba is Spanish composer of the last century, known for his important contribution to the repertoire of the classical guitar. Besides numerous compositions for guitar, Torroba also wrote operas and above has contributed to the spread of the…
