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…
In our time, video games can also bring something musical. I remember a game a few years, I think his name was “The Pilgrim”, when I felt an arpeggio of classical guitar, then I discovered it was the Study n.…
“Autumn Leaves” is a popular song. Originally it was a 1945 French song, “fr: Les feuilles mortes” (literally “The Dead Leaves”), with music by Hungarian-American composer Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prevert. It seems that the chords of this…
This wonderful Sonata for classical guitar from the composer Eduardo Angulo contains many colors and guitar techniques, and reminds me in some points the music of The Genesis that embraces flamenco. Angulo was born in January 14, 1954 in Puebla, México.…
The famous “Funeral March” is the third movement of the Piano Sonata n. 2 by Chopin. This music was often used by bands for funeral processions of people more or less known and in movies, from which his great celebrity.…
White Christmas is the biggest selling single in history, and certainly a very nice Christmas song. It was composed by Irving Berlin and the first known version was recorded by Bing Crosby in 1942. The morning after writing the 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…
