Happy International Women’s Day! CELEBRATING some of the very inspiring women working in music Starting with the Argentinian lutenist and guitarist Evangelina Mascardi. Here she is performing JS Bach’s Suite in G minor, BWV 995 on lute: Although she was born in Buenos Aires, she has remained living and working in Europe, since she came to…
Against the Grain: An Instrument Maker’s Journey, autobiography of British guitar maker Paul Fischer
A quick glance at the cover tells you everything about the contents of Enrique Robichaud’s Guitar’s Top 100 – A Guide to Classical Guitar’s Most Recorded Music: it presents the 100 most recorded classical guitar pieces, selected from Enrique Robichaud’s own database of over 10,000 guitar recordings. Each piece has an accompanying programme note, often quoting from…
FRANZ SCHUBERT (1797–1828) was a prolific composer of songs, setting the poetry of Goethe (1749–1832), Heine (1797–1856), Müller (1794–1827), Schiller (1759–1805), Schlegel (1767–1845) and many others, mostly for voice with piano accompaniment. Although there are some depictions of Schubert with a guitar in hand and his connection with the guitar still much debated*, what is…
International Classical Guitar 