Take THAT, Rodrigo!
Pink Floyd’s Shine on You Crazy Diamond for mandolin orchestra. Michael Rüber, guitarist, and the Mandolinenorchester Ettlingen.
Beatles: She’s Leaving Home – Michael Chapdelaine
On a Kevin Muiderman spruce and brazilian guitar.
I hope someone turns Sir Paul on to this. Just gorgeous. The balance of the voices taking turns stepping into the light, the sweet isolated highlights, so many fine moments, yet it all flows. And the harmony is all there. This is mastery. A Magical Mastery Tour de force.. 🙂
Bach: Rondo from Partita No.2 in C minor, BWV 826
It’s always a treat to see another Roman Gurochkin classical guitar video.
Emily Elbert: Visitor
Lyrics:
Oh, how fresh what now is found
New sights new smells and foreign sounds
Dig deep in the new dirt
Which in reality is centuries older than meIn all the reincarnate lives
Sisters brothers fathers mothers husbands wives
How can we learn from the ones we’ve loved so dear that died?Oh, to be a visitor
Getting wrapped up in a new tradition
Oh, to learn to find yourself
In all sorts of strange new positions
Alive, in love
And looking for peace in the east, west, flip the theme of conquest
Whatcha got left when all you know is gone?How can we learn from our silhouettes
That we’re just matter assembled like minarets
Casting a shadow in the light of the unrest
Egoless forms just here until the sun sets
Hovering above
A little scared to dive deeper but still in love
Entranced by the speaking of foreign tongues
Or the silence that lingers on
Oh, to be a visitor
Getting wrapped up in a new tradition
Oh, to learn to find yourself
In all sorts of strange new positions
Alive, in love
And looking for peace in the east, west, flip the theme of conquest
Whatcha got left when all you know is gone?
Bach: Prelude BWV 998 – Luciano Contini, Lute
Notice, along with all the other good qualities of this performance, how fittingly the tempo varies.
Alan Miceli: Errington Way
Alan Miceli is an acoustic guitarist, performer, composer, and recording artist. He received his training at the Toronto Conservatory of Music, under Norbert Kraft. He has recored three albums to date: The Spaces Between, Errington Way, and Imprints.
His music has aired on CBC’s North by Northwest, Disc Drive, and Fresh Air and Echoes in the USA. Alan lives in Nanaimo BC with his wife and two cats Wallace and Finnegan.
Alan has provided Guitarist.com with the TAB to Errington Way and it is published here (free!) with his permission. (Click on the TAB image below to download a high-quality PDF of the TAB.)
Also, Alan will give a free lesson on playing Errington Way to the first three guitarists who respond.
Thank you, Alan!
Tuning:
6) D
5) A
4) D
3) E
2) A
1) D
Errington Way is available from CDBaby, too:
Musica Maestrale
Musica Maestrale opens its concert season this weekend (October 6, 2012, 7:30PM) at the Community Music Center in Portland, Oregon.
From Musica Maestrale’s website:
Musica Maestrale’s premier concert! For this special occasion, we will be joined by Adaiha Macadam-Somer (‘cello) and Noah Strick (violin), pictured left, two young, emerging stars in the San Francisco Bay Area early music scene. Both are alumni of the San Francisco Conservatory; Adaiha is a winner of the 2012 Voices of Music Young Artists’ Bach Competition (see video up, right), and Noah is the concertmaster of Berkeley Symphony and also plays with some very prestigious early music ensembles including Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, American Bach Soloists, and Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra. We are very fortunate to have them for their Portland debut!
This concert explores the sonata in 17th-century Italy. Wild and unrestrained, the music of this era has a flavor distinctly different from that of the later Baroque. Come experience the calculated madness of the music of Castello, Marini, and Stradella!
Community Music Center
3350 SE Francis St
Portland, Or. 97202
Here’s an excerpt from an interview with Hideki Yamaya, the group’s founder:
“The first concert is me and two young hotshot from the SF Bay area. We met at the Astoria Music Festival; they are Noah Strick who plays in a number of symphony orchestras in the Bay area including the Philharmonia Baroque, and Adahia Macadam-Somer is a wonderful cellist. So it will be the three of us, and we’ll be doing 17th-century Italian music, from the early Italian baroque, which is what I love to play the most so it’s kind of fitting that we start with that. We’re going to play a bunch of Castello, and a sonata by Stradella. It rocks pretty hard,” he said laughing.”
“So we’re dealing with some composers here who aren’t household names like your Handels or your Vivaldis,” I prodded him.
“Exactly. But the music nerds will certainly recognize some of the names. Expect some fireworks from it. These guys (Strick and Macadam-Somer) are up-and-coming young talent in the early music scene so it’ll be pretty exciting to have them up here.”