Classical Guitar

Artistic Director Manuel Barrueco announces the Baltimore International Guitar Competition!

Sponsored by the Baltimore International Guitar Competition: www.BaltimoreGuitarCompetition.org More than $60,000 in prizes await the world’s most outstanding...

Indiana Competition Crowns Winners, Says Farewell to Founder Ernesto Bitetti

Over the last weekend of October, the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music Guitar Department hosted its 10th...

LAGQ to Headline Northern California Fire Recovery Benefit Concert Nov. 24

By Blair Jackson It’s been a rough couple of years for those of us who live in beautiful...

Guitar-as-Chamber-Instrument Week, #6: Guitar-Cello Duo Vitare Play Dušan Bogdanovic’s ‘Quatre pièces intimes (Mvts. III & IV)’

To celebrate (and amplify) the Special Focus section in the new Spring 2019 issue of Classical Guitar, we’re posting...

Video Pick of the Week: David Russell Plays “Carezza” by Granados

Really, there aren’t many things better than hearing David Russell play Spanish repertoire! So enjoy this wonderful video...

CG News: tonebase Goes Global; Introduces V2

In just a little over a year, the marvelous online classical-guitar learning and information website tonebase has evolved...

Recent Album Releases: ‘The Secrets of the Gypsy Guitar,’ Andrew McEvoy, and Alan Rinehart

Some weeks we take a peek at recent albums or sheet music releases. Here are three of the...

Different Duos Sunday #5: Modern Sounds from Armin Abdihodžić (guitar) and Eric Bleicher (percussion)

As you might expect, there is not an enormous repertoire for the chamber combo of classical guitar and...

Video Pick of the Week: Manuel Barrueco Plays Sor’s ‘Variations on a Theme by Mozart’

We’ve traveled from the West Coast to Baltimore this weekend to attend the Guitar Society Summit at the...

A Salute to Some of 2018’s Guitar Competition Winners! (Plus New Elizabethan Award Review)

FROM THE FALL 2018 ISSUE OF CLASSICAL GUITAR Let’s take a few moments to offer our hearty congratulations...

Stories

Album Review: Carlos Barbosa-Lima and Johannes Tonio Kreusch Shine on ‘Manisero’

Guitar Concert Impresario Richard Patterson Celebrates 40 Years of Creative Programming

‘Forbidden’ Fifths in Guitar Music From Sor and Before to Hendrix and Beyond

The Classics

‘Forbidden’ Fifths in Guitar Music From Sor and Before to Hendrix and Beyond