Astor Piazzolla

Guitar

Tango Guitar: The Secret Style

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Tango is Argentina’s best-known musical export. However, the traditional tango guitar style, which includes a specific set of techniques and concepts, is virtually unknown outside of Argentina. Adam Tully fell in love with this particular way of playing nylon-string guitar and spent almost 30 years studying it, eventually moving from his native New York to Buenos Aires, where the tango scene, and tango on six strings, is stronger than ever. And although many classical guitarists have studied and performed the repertoire of Astor Piazzolla, that music in a way is tango, and in a way isn’t. In this article Adam Tully describes what tango guitar is, and how we can learn to play it.

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Piano

Omer Meir Wellber: “Really Good Conductors Are Able to Recognize the Potential in Others and Bring That Out in the Music in What Almost Feels Like a Magical Experience”

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Composer, performer, and conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Omer Meir Wellber shares about his early influences as a musician, as well as an upcoming release entitled ‘The Mandolin Seasons’ that features mandolinist Jacob Reuven performing pieces by Vivaldi and Piazzolla.

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Violoncello

Eckart Runge: “Many Things Are Not Written in Musical Scores, and You Have to Just Trust Your Instinct on That”

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Nadège Rochat has an interesting conversation with Eckart Runge, who is probably one of the most versatile European cellists who can be seen in his eclectic Duo Runge&Ammon, in a more traditional chamber ensembles, or as a soloist with orchestra.

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