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23.01.2022 Tordiglione Carlo Calvi AMEB Grade 3 List B No.1... Italian Baroque guitarist Carlo Calvi from Bologna is perhaps better known for ‘Canaria’, which is another piece from his ‘Intavolatura di chimaera, e chitarriglia’. This instructional book from 1646 contains a collection of 65 strummed and 24 plucked pieces for the five-course Baroque guitar, including this catchy ‘Tordiglione’. A ‘Tordiglione’was a type of Italian Galliard, a dance that uses five steps. YouTube https://youtu.be/WM9vxHKj1sc (Please subscribe to my YouTube Channel)

22.01.2022 Waltz by Joep Wanders played by Greg Cook Guitar Impressions Dutch guitarist and composer Joep Wanders is one of today’s most popular authors of student repertoire for classical guitar. This study is taken from Wanders’ publication ‘Three of a Kind - 30 Studies for Guitar’. In a way similar to the Segreras study, this work requires a sonorous thumb sound, as most bass melody notes need to be sustained for an entire bar.... AMEB Grade 2 List A No.6 YouTube Link (Please Subscribe) https://youtu.be/o92JjtUMpzY

22.01.2022 Simple Mambo by Thierry Tisserand Played by Greg Cook Guitar Impressions ‘Simple Mambo’ is one of numerous highly effective compositions by French guitarist composer Thierry Tisserand, published in the first volume of his three-volume anthology ‘Comme des chansons’. In order to master the required tempo, a careful revision of the right-hand fingering is crucially important, as finger repetitions would obstruct fluency.... AMEB Grade 2 List C No.4 YouTube Link (Please Subscribe) https://youtu.be/V8C2mJtG8kA

20.01.2022 Lezione Mauro Giuliani Opus 139 No.4 Grade 4 List A No.4... Italian guitarist and composer Mauro Giuliani was one of the most prominent guitar virtuosi of his time. He was well connected in the highest circles, particularly with Vienna’s musical elite. Giuliani was acquainted with pianist and composer Johann Nepomuk Hummel, with whom he performed duo concerts, and with compatriot Gioachino Rossini, whose music inspired him to write his six ‘Rossiniane’. Giuliani is also said to have played cello in the 1813 premiere performance of Ludwig van Beethoven’s seventh symphony in Vienna. This short study in A minor from his ’24 prime lezioni’ Op.139 needs to be played with a clear sense of melodic and dynamic development. YouTube https://youtu.be/yoqVaIoWiUo (Please Subscibe to my YouTube Channel)

17.01.2022 Cold Finger Blues by Maria Linnemann and played by Greg Cook Guitar Impressions AMEB Grade 2 List C No.5 Born in Holland and raised in England Maria Linnemann has lived in Germany since 1971. Her over 500 compositions for guitar include an impressive number of very popular works for beginners and intermediate players. This Blues in A major is one of the more difficult works in the repertoire list for Grade 2.... AMEB Grade 2 List C No.5 YouTube Link (Please Subscribe) https://youtu.be/pdgOmyztPgc

15.01.2022 Pavan AMEB Grade 4 This Pavan is from El Maestro (1535). Luis Milan was a courtier in the viceregal court of Germaine de Foix at Valencia, a scene of social and cultural elegance. This is the first Pavan, from a collection of 6, and was originally written for the instrument called the Vihuela. Music for the Vihuela adapts very well to the present day Classical Guitar.

13.01.2022 'Goodnight, Mr Dowland': played by Greg Cook and composed by Paul Svoboda. Paul Svoboda is a graduate of the University of Queensland's School of Music, and recipient of a Doctorate of Musical Arts from the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, Finland. He currently lives in Brisbane where he teaches and continues to compose. This homage to the great Renaissance lutenist and composer John Dowland is a very evocative and skilfully crafted composition. This is a set piece for ...the AMEB Grade 3 Classical Guitar List C No.6 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DIHTrPARln8 Please Subscribe

12.01.2022 Nesta rua (Traditional) arranged by Kurt Bruckner and played by Greg Cook Guitar Impressions This old Brazilian love son ‘Nesta rua’ (This Street) has been transcribed many times. The virtuosic piano arrangement by Heitor Villa-Lobos and Isaias Savio’s guitar arrangement ‘Nesta rua: Theme and variations’ are perhaps two of the most prominent examples. This work needs to be played with much expression, yearning tone and judicious rubato. With the melody stretching across three... strings and ranging from first through to seventh position, the core technical focus needs to be on position shifts, consistent tone quality and legato. AMEB Grade 2 List B No.1 YouTube Link (Please Subscribe) https://youtu.be/xYt6b1T0J4Y

09.01.2022 Menuett Robert de Visee arranged by Heinz Teuchert AMEB Grade 2 List B No.5 Played by Greg Cook... Robert de Visee was a French Baroque guitarist and theorbist at the court of Louis XIV, who was appointed guitar teacher to the king in 1719. Amongst many other works for the Baroque lute and theorbo, de Visee wrote two books of Baroque guitar music in 1682 and 1686, with a total of twelve suites for guitar. This beautiful ‘Menuett’ is taken from his 1682 book, and presented here in an arrangement by Heinz Teuchert. YouTube link (please subscribe): https://youtu.be/oV_NhQmW7wo

07.01.2022 Lecon (Lesson) by Fernando Sor played by Greg Cook Guitar Impressions. AMEB Grade 3 List A No.6 Catalan guitarist and composer Fernando Sor was born in Barcelona and received his early musical training at the Monastery of Montserrat, where he sang in the famous choir. This beautiful study in A major is from an edition of his 'Methode complete' edited by his pupil Napoleon Coste and is often published under Coste's name. AMEB Classical Guitar Grade 3 List A No.6... YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QA3vUfh5jrQ Please Subscribe.

05.01.2022 Valsa Sem Nome AMEB Grade 7 Baden Powell de Aquino, usually known simply as Baden Powell, was one of the most prominent and celebrated Brazilian guitarists and guitar composers of his time. He combined classical techniques with popular harmony and swing.

04.01.2022 Fandango by Vincent Lindsey-Clark played by Greg Cook Guitar Impressions. AMEB Grade 3 List C No5 Vincent Lindsey-Clark is one of Britain's leading classical guitar composers. Amongst his compositions are chamber music works for guitar as well as solo works ranging from numerous, very popular, student repertoire pieces, through to technically very demanding concert repertoire works. This very infectious work is taken from on of his most successful publications of student repe...rtoire titled 'Simply Spanish'. Played by Greg Cook Guitar Impressions. AMEB Classical Guitar Grade 3 List C No.5 YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtKxBCAAmrs Please Subscribe

03.01.2022 Romanze Johann Kaspar Mertz AMEB Grade 3 List B No.4... Johann Kaspar Mertz, originally from Hungary, moved to Vienna in 1840 and quickly established himself as Austria’s leading guitarist. His marriage to pianist Josephine Plantin is the most likely explanation for the influence of piano music, particularly the writing of Chopin and early Litz, which is so evident in Mertz’s guitar compositions. This yearning Romance is taken from his guitar method ‘Schule fur die Guitare’ published in 1848, the year of revolutions. YouTube https://youtu.be/xyriWHCzAd0 (Please Subscribe to my Channel)

03.01.2022 'Vals' (Waltz) Bartolome Calatayud AMEB Grade 2 List C No.1 Played by Greg Cook Guitar Impressions... Bartolome Calatayud was a well-known guitarist who toured internationally from his home on the Spanish island of Mallorca. Trained in guitar and composition by teachers including Francisco Tarrega, Calatayud left some very inspired compositions, particularly for the beginner and intermediate player. The II - VI position change and the timing of the glissando from G to B should be worked on separately. It is important not to apply too much pressure during the glissando. YouTube link (please subscribe): https://youtu.be/kYH5frC2E0Y