Tristeza by Nelson Faria (1963-) Nelson Faria is a Brazilian guitar player. Started his guitar lessons with Sidney Barros (Gamela) in Brasilia. At the age of 19 moved to Los Angeles and studied at the G.I.T. (Guitar Institute of Technology). Nelson has played at the most important jazz festivals around the world, including Montreux Jazz …
A Casa by Toquinho (1946-) Antônio Pecci Filho, better known as Toquinho, is a Brazilian singer and guitarist. He is well-known for his collaborations, as composer and performer, with Vinicius de Moraes. As he was very short along his childhood, her mother used to call him “meu toquinho de gente” (“my piece of person”). This …
I Dont Know How To Love Him by Andrew Lloyd Webber (1948-) Andrew Lloyd Webber is an English composer of musical theatre. Lloyd Webber has achieved great popular success in musical theatre. Several of his musicals have run for more than a decade both in the West End and on Broadway. He has composed 13 …
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Toccata by Pietro Domenico Paradisi (1707-1791) Pietro Domenico Paradisi (also Pier Domenico Paradies) was an Italian composer, harpsichordist and harpsichord teacher, most prominently known for a composition popularly entitled “Toccata in A”. A reviewer of a modern edition of his sonatas, all first edited by the composer, noted in passing “Paradies (never Paradisi, it seems)” …
Epitafois 3 by Mikis Theodorakis (1925-) Mikis (Michael) Theodorakis is one of the most renowned Greek songwriters and composers. Internationally, he is probably best known for his songs and for his scores for the films Zorba the Greek (1964), Z (1969), and Serpico (1973).
Melodia Espanola by Luis Romero (1854-1893) Romero was a Spanish Guitarist. As a boy he played the guitar and when he moved to Los Angeles, he continued his studies with Miguel S. Arrevalo. Later he moved to San Jose, California to perform and teach and while there began to published numerous works. Subsequently he moved …
Largo from Stabat Mater by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594) Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina was an Italian Renaissance composer of sacred music and the best-known 16th-century representative of the Roman School of musical composition. He had a lasting influence on the development of church music, and his work has often been seen as the culmination …
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Aria by Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello (1690-1758) Giuseppe Antonio Brescianello was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist. He invigorated musical life in Stuttgart. His contemporaries praised his chamber works. The music of Brescianello shows great sense of melody, profound harmonic imagination combined with strong rhythmic element so typical to Italian school of the time.
Time Travel by Masaaki Kishibe (1964-) Masaaki Kishibe, is an acoustic guitarist from Japan. Masaaki Kishibe was born in Osaka and began studying piano at a young age, eventually picking up the guitar by the time he was 14. Kishibe learned both instruments at a fast pace and eventually decided he wanted to take learning …
Emily by Johnny Mandel (1925-) Johnny Mandel is an American composer and arranger of popular songs, film music and jazz. Among the musicians he has worked with are Count Basie, Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, Anita O’Day, Barbra Streisand, and Shirley Horn. “Emily” is a popular song composed by Johnny Mandel, with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. …
