CLASSICAL GUITAR

Guitar quartets, cello, and voices come together in this 2020 album exploring the experiences of pioneering and Native American women, which has been nominated for a 2022 GRAMMY award for Best Choral Performance. The vocal ensemble Conspirare's recording, The Singing Guitar, includes The Dawn’s Early Light, by composer Kile Smith.

Viva España! Join us on Sunday, October 10th at 1 PM on 90.1, and Monday, October 11th at 7 PM on WRTI HD-2, as our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert broadcast, recorded live in 2019, pulsates with the rhythms and evocative harmonies of Spain.

Joaquin Rodrigo wrote Concierto Andaluz in 1967 for the Romero Quartet, an ensemble that's known as the "The Royal Family of the Guitar." WRTI's Susan Lewis spoke with the Grammy-winning Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, whose members were mentored by the Romeros.

Recovered from a career-threatening injury, Miloš Karadaglic has his sights set on two goals: finding the next great classical guitar concerto, and erasing the taboo of injuries among musicians.

January 4, 2021. Prelude, Fugue, and Allegro in E-flat major, BWV 998, is a musical composition by Johann Sebastian Bach, intended for either lute or…

November 30, 2020. In his concerto for guitar and orchestra, Chris Brubeck pays homage to his father, the late jazz great Dave Brubeck. The pianist and…

What is multiple Grammy-winning classical guitarist Sharon Isbin's response to everyone wearing masks to stay healthy? "Welcome to my world!" she says.…

Guitarist Julian Bream, who died Friday at the age of 87, was as important to the history of classical guitar as Andres Segovia.

The virtuoso guitarist Julian Bream, who died August 14, 2020 at age 87 of natural causes in Wiltshire, England, helped change the way the world views the…

September 23, 2019. If you’ve ever visited Spain or Italy, you know how the quality of the sun and soil, the wind and warmth affect everything from the…