Beths Blues 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.
Just A Simple Soul 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 …
My Town 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 …
Antonellas Birthday 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. …
Etude No 1 by Franco Margola (1908-1992) Franco Margola, born in Orzinuovi (Brescia, Italy) on the 30th of October 1908 – died in Nave (Brescia) on the 9th of March 1992, was one of the most important composers in the 20th century Italian music scene. “He was an indefatigable teacher, lecturer, man of great culture, …
El Baile De Los Tontos by Angel Barrios (1882-1964) Ángel Barrios Fernandez was born in Grenada in 1882, the son of a flamenco guitarist. His catalogue of works includes opera, zarzuelas, a number of orchestral scores and solo works for piano and guitar. They are all written in a style influenced by the Romantic era, …
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Homenaje by Evencio Castellanos (1915-1984) Evencio Castellanos Yumar was a Venezuelan pianist and classical musician. Throughout his musical career, Castellanos obtained several awards and recognitions, such as the Teresa Carreño Prize, by the Caracas Athenaeum for his Tribute to Teresa Carreño in 1952, the National Prize of Music for his symphonic poem Santa Cruz de …
Siempre En Mi Corazon by Ernesto Lecuona (1895-1963) Ernesto Lecuona y Casado was a Cuban composer and pianist of Canarian father and Cuban mother, and worldwide fame. He composed over six hundred pieces, mostly in the Cuban vein, and was a pianist of exceptional quality.
Beverly by John Fahey (1939-2001) John Fahey was an American fingerstyle guitarist and composer who pioneered the steel-string acoustic guitar as a solo instrument. His style has been greatly influential and has been described as the foundation of American Primitivism, a term borrowed from painting and referring mainly to the self-taught nature of the music …
BWV 93 He Who Lets Only Beloved God Rule 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 …
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