The Pelican by John Renbourn (1944-) John Renbourn is an English guitarist and songwriter. While most commonly labelled a folk musician, Renbourn’s musical tastes and interests take in early music, classical music, blues and world music. His most influential album, Sir John Alot (1968), featured his take on songs from the Medieval era.
Romance Gitano by Mario Escudero (1928-2004) Mario Escudero Valero Jimenez Valverde is one of a handful of Spanish flamenco guitar virtuosos who helped spread flamenco beyond their homeland when they migrated to the United States in the early 1950s. After completing his obligatory military service in Spain, he toured with the best known companies of …
Eine Kleine Nacht Musik Mov 1 (“a little night music”) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical era. He composed over 600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante, chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most timeless classical composers.
Fandango de Alosno by Juan Martin (1948-) Juan Cristóbal Martín is a Spanish flamenco guitarist and is the author of two flamenco guitar method, ‘El Arte Flamenco De La Guitarra’. Martín started learning the guitar at the age of six. In his early twenties he moved to Madrid to study under Niño Ricardo and Paco …
Cavatina I Prelude by Aleksander Tansman (1897-1986) Alexandre Tansman was a Polish-born composer and virtuoso pianist. He spent his early years in his native Poland, but lived in France for most of his life. His music is primarily neoclassical, drawing on his Polish and Jewish heritage as well as his French musical influences.
Naquele Tempo by Baden Powell (1937-2000) Baden Powell de Aquino usually known simply as Baden Powell, was one of the greatest Brazilian guitarists. He explored the instrument to its utmost limits, playing it in a distinctive, unique manner, incorporating virtuoso classical techniques together with popular harmony and swing.
Aerial Boundaries by Michael Hedges (1953-1997) Michael Alden Hedges was an American composer, Acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter. Hedges’ first two recordings for Windham Hill—Breakfast in the Field and Aerial Boundaries—were milestones for the acoustic guitar. He wrote nearly exclusively in alternate tunings and played guitar-variants like the harp guitar (an instrument with additional bass strings), …
Ob La Di Ob La Da by Lennon (1940-1980) / McCartney (1942-) The songwriting partnership of John Lennon and Paul McCartney is one of the best-known and most successful musical collaborations in history. Between 1962 and 1969, they wrote and published approximately 180 jointly credited songs, of which the vast majority were recorded by The …
The Orphan by John Renbourn (1944-) John Renbourn is an English guitarist and songwriter. While most commonly labelled a folk musician, Renbourn’s musical tastes and interests take in early music, classical music, blues and world music. His most influential album, Sir John Alot (1968), featured his take on songs from the Medieval era.
Opus 28 No 16 Prelude by Frederic Chopin (1810-1849) Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer, virtuoso pianist, and music teacher of French–Polish parentage. A great masters of Romantic music and has been called “the poet of the piano”. He supported himself as a composer and piano teacher, giving few public performances. For most of …
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