Play on My Heart Strings

A blog for me to express myself as a musician and a place to write my opinions on music inspired by my love of classical guitar

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Prelude from Partita No.3 BWV1006 - J.S. Bach - Mandolin Marissa Carroll, an extremely talented mandolinist from Australia. She is truly exceptional. She reminds me of the female mandolin players in baroque paintings.

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Villa-Lobos 'Schottish-Choro' played by Kevin Ayers Who is dreamier, the guitar or Kevin Ayers?

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Menino by Assad for Two Guitars & Cello

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Sharpe-Zohn Guitar Duo Play Mozart 

Concerto for two guitars and string quartet op.140 by Gerard Drozd

Strata Motion for Guitar Quartet by Richard Melkonian

Matthew McAllister plays Bach – Prelude from Cello Suite No.1

Jonathan Leathwood & Yoshi Ishikawa – Bertoli Guitar & Bassoon

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Thomas Wilmer Dewing - The Lute (1903)

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Giuseppe Maria Crespi - Woman Playing a Lute

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Irina Kulikova 

Castelnuovo Tedesco Concerto

Orchestra del Conservatorio Vivaldi, at the 40th International Guitar Competition 

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Paola Requena performs Sonata heróica.

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Pierre Auguste Renoir (French artist, 1841-1919) Woman Playing the Guitar

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I really want to do some chamber music with harpsichord, cello, flute, or voice. THE BAROQUE Is this a cittern??

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Harp–lute, ca. 1815 Edward Light (English, active 1780–1820) London Wood, lacquered and gilded; H. 32 3/4 in. (83.2 cm); W. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm)

The harplike pillar supports diatonically tuned bass strings to extend the range of the fretted strings. The pitch of the bass strings could be raised a semitone by finger-operated ring stops that work very much like pedals on a harp.

Quote and Photo via the Met: metmuseum.org

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More from this is classical guitar:

Artwork with Lute or Guitar

Girl Power

Youth Guitarists

Lessons for Classical Guitar

Gig & Student Repertoire

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What a beautiful piece of work!! Lutes are so fascinating. The pillar resembles a greek column, with other fine details inspired by antiquity, such as the harp inspired structure and gold floral embellishments. Also, check out the frets. There is a small and odd amount of them. So cool !!

Someday I will go to the Met and visit this, I hope.

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Leo Brouwer - La espiral eterna

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i love his imagination, its beautiful 

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Ida Presti - Albeniz, Rumores de la Caleta

I am playing this for my Junior Recital, very excited

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THE GREAT ~~ Ida Presti ~~

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Another great performance from David Starobin, this time of Menuetto (Presto) in G major, op. 20, no. 10 by Wenzeslaus Matiegka (1773–1830). He’s playing guitar made by René François Lacôte (1785–1855) with a label signed by the virtuoso guitarist Fernando Sor (1778–1839) and later owned and played by Julian Bream.

I interview David Starobin a few weeks back check it out: Interview with guitarist David Starobin

Check out some reviews from the site:

Review: Giovanni Antonio Terzi Arranged for Guitar by Vladimir Gorbach

Review: Complete Warm-Up for Classical Guitar by Gohar Vardanyan

Review: Classical Guitar Anatomy and Mechanics (Poster)

Review: Essential Bach Arranged for the Guitar by Lily Afshar

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Apparently this guitar was signed by Fernando Sor and owned by Julian Bream. Its amazing how throughout the life of this guitar it was enjoyed by so many people in three different centuries. I love period guitars because they are not only beautiful to look at but the sound is so unique and warm, like a wise old man/woman. 

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