Guitarist composer Andrew York has a great experience of concerts around the world, he won a Grammy award in 2005 and his compositions have been played by great guitarists such as John Williams. “Emergence” is a piece for solo classical…
The Nocturnes Op. 9 are a collection of three compositions written by Frédéric Chopin between 1830 and 1832 dedicated to Madame Camille Pleyel. The second Nocturne in Eb is a song with a great melody, that Chopin performed often with…
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…
“Für Elise” is one of the best known works by Beethoven, but not everyone knows that in fact this name is not accurate, because the dedication to Elise was added later by an editor. Someone thinks perhaps that was dedicated…
The Canon in D from Pachelbel is one of Europe’s most famous ancient melodies. We can recognize its harmonic movement in many recent songs such as Let it Be by The Beatles, for example. The original version of the Canon…
The first four concerts of Antonio Vivaldi are called: “The Four Seasons“. The fourth is “The Winter“, a concerto in F minor in three movements. The first movement is an Allegro, as described by Vivaldi: “the ruthless action of the…
The legendary Narciso Yepes performs an 80 minute solo recital, plus 25 minutes of encores, on the ten-string guitar of his own conception, at the Teatro Real de Madrid, in 1979. This is without electronic amplification of the guitar, as…
