Ghiribizzi by Ermenegildo Carosio (1866-1928) Ermenegildo Carosio was an Italian mandolinist, guitarist and composer, was born and died in Alessandria. He published hundred compositions and transcriptions in the musical periodicals “il Mandolinista”, “il Chitarrista”, “il Concerto”, “il Plettro”, in the first years of the XXth century)
St Blues by Chet Atkins (1924-2001) Chester Burton Atkins, known as Chet Atkins, was an American guitarist and record producer who, along with Owen Bradley, created the smoother country music style known as the Nashville sound, which expanded country’s appeal to adult pop music fans as well. Among many honors, Atkins received 14 Grammy Awards …
Sentimentos 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.
Merrily Kissed The Quaker by Pierre Bensusan (1957-) Pierre Bensusan is a French-Algerian guitarist. As sephardic Jews, his family came from Spain, Spanish Morocco and French Algeria. The genre of his acoustic guitar music is often characterized as Celtic, Folk, World music, New Age, or Chamber jazz. He has also published three books of music …
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BWV 78 From Thy Sleep Awake Thee by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) In the early 1700s, Bach’s chorales enchanted listeners with their inventive harmonies, chromaticism, contrapuntal motion, and changes of tonal center. Since that time, music students the world over have studied the chorales as a paragon of “common practice” harmony and voice leading. And, …
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Lindsay 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.
My Funny Valentine by Richard Rodgers (1902-1979) Richard Charles Rodgers was an American composer of music for more than 900 songs and for 43 Broadway musicals. He also composed music for films and television. He is best known for his songwriting partnerships with the lyricists Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein II. His compositions have had …
Minuet in E 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.
Bird Song by Bert Jansch (1943-2011) Herbert “Bert” Jansch was a Scottish folk musician and founding member of the band Pentangle. He was born in Glasgow and came to prominence in London in the 1960s, as an acoustic guitarist, as well as a singer-songwriter. He recorded at least 25 albums and toured extensively from the …
Drivetime by Tommy Emmanuel (1955-) William Thomas “Tommy” Emmanuel AM is an Australian guitarist, best known for his complex fingerpicking style, energetic performances and the use of percussive effects on the guitar. In the May 2008 and 2010 issues of Guitar Player Magazine, he was named as “Best Acoustic Guitarist” in their readers’ poll. In …
