From the sultry Spanish sounds of the Concierto de Aranjuez to modern adaptations of 17th-century lute music, some of the greatest classical music sounds absolutely stunning on guitar. For a work as ...

It could be argued that he, even more than Andrés Segovia, established the guitar’s credibility as a serious solo instrument. By Allan Kozinn Julian Bream, the English musician who pushed the guitar ...

The most popular guitar concerto from the Baroque era must certainly be the Guitar Concerto in D by Antonio Vivaldi. That is something of a misnomer, however, because Vivaldi actually wrote it for the ...

Columbus native and world-famous lutenist Paul O'Dette will be featured on this week's episode of Fretworks. English guitarist Nicola Hall will begin the next Fretworks program on Classical 101 with a ...

If the guitar is at the very heart of rock and pop, the same cannot be said of classical music. Of course, in its earliest forms, there was plenty for a plucked stringed instrument to play. The lute - ...

JULIAN Bream, who has died aged 87, was the first British musician to win widespread acceptance for the guitar in the classical repertoire, and recognition as one of the 20th century’s leading ...

The guitar as we know it was not around when Antonio Vivaldi was alive, though that's the instrument most often used nowadays. Vivaldi would have had the lute in mind when he wrote his Concerto, RV 93 ...

Stories of falling head over heels for an instrument are not unusual. What is unusual is love at first sight — or sound — when that instrument is the theorbo. In fact, it was the combination of both ...