Antonio Lauro was a Venezuelan composer and guitarist, considered among the leading 20th century guitar composers. A concert whose program consisted of such valses venezolanos (Venezuelan waltzes) by the distinguished Venezuelan pianist Evencio Castellanos (1914-1984) convinced Lauro that the guitar…
El Noi de la Mare (The Child of the Mother) is a traditional Catalan Christmas song. The song was made famous outside Spain by Andrés Segovia who used to perform Miguel Llobet’s classical guitar transcription as an encore. This song…
“Mallorca” is the largest of the Spanish Balearic Islands, and like the island, this composition by Albeniz is great! The transcript has entered the repertoire of great guitarists, including Julian Bream and John Williams. Here’s how Williams describes it: “a…
Although it was published after his death, the “Suite Espanola” by Isaac Albéniz is one of his works for piano most played by concert performers. Very famous is the song Asturias (Leyenda), especially in the classical guitar version, but in…
Spanish composer Enrique Granados was a leading member of the Spanish national school, in fact his is a distinctly Spanish style, so it is very suitable to be played with the classical guitar. In fact he played the piano, and…
The “Milonga del Angel” is one of the most beautiful and touching compositions of the genius and Tango innovator: Astor Piazzolla. The watchword when it comes to music like this is “passion“, in fact the Piazzolla’s compositions are among the…
Jorge Cardoso is a very prolific Argentine composer: he composed more than 350 works for guitar of various nature. The Milonga is a folk dance originating in Uruguay, which derives from the Habanera. It is also related to the Argentine…
La Paloma is a song written by Basque composer Sebastian de Iradier during his stay in Cuba, and is one of the most famous song of the genre Habanera. Become a standard of international music, it was performed and then…
João Pernambuco is the nickname of João Guimarães Teixeira, an important Brazilian composer and guitarist lived at the beginning of the twentieth century. Along with the music of Heitor Villa-Lobos, the work of João Pernambuco is remembered as the most…
Ottmar Liebert is a German guitarist known for being a member of the Nuevo Flamenco, however, his style could be called an easy listening influenced by flamenco. He has received five Grammy nominations and 38 gold and platinum certifications in…
