3 The Southbank Centre Reveals Classical Music Autumn/Winter 2026/27 Season Named by The Washington Post as one of the "gifted young composers" of this generation, Leshnoff is a leader of contemporary ...

The passion of Flamenco blends with the elegance of courtly dances in the most popular guitar concerto of all time: Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez. The work was composed in Paris in 1939 during a ...

It’s one of the first great concertos ever written for the guitar—and it still holds its place as a cornerstone of the repertoire. Mauro Giuliani’s Guitar Concerto No. 1 is smooth, stylish, and shows ...

A portrait of English composer, Sir Malcolm Arnold depicts a man with humor and intensity. You can hear that personality in his work this week on Fretworks. On the next Fretworks, Flutist James Galway ...

Iván Duran Aguayo is likely the first artist to record Ernest Shand's Op. 48 with a backing string quartet, according to his research. With more music than anyone could listen to in a lifetime ...

This week on Fretworks, I'll start the hour with a British group, the Pro Arte Guitar Trio in a recording from the early 1990s. They'll play Le Grand Tango by Argentinian composer Astor Piazzolla.

As cliché as it may seem for a classical guitar player, my "First Love" would be a tie between Joaquin Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez (yes, the one you hear all the time!) and Heitor Villa-Lobos’ ...

The title of this disc (“Great Guitar Concertos”) is a misnomer. Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Romancero gitano for chorus and guitar isn’t a guitar concerto; Bacarisse’s Concertino isn’t great. But the ...

You could probably count on one hand how many times electric guitar has been a part of a symphony concert, and the count would be equal when you consider how many classical composers have written for ...

The guitar concerto, „Concerto for Jazz Guitar & Chamber Orchestra” was recorded at the end of the year and was released in the spring of 2020 by Tom-Tom Records. The author played the guitar part of ...