Archive for November, 2009

Stephane Wrembel – Gypsy Jazz Guitar – Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Stephane Wrembel was born in France and grew up there. For many years he played the music of Django Reinhardt and the gypsies. Later he studied at the Berkeley College of Music and has been living in New York City for about 10 years now. Stephane Wrembel has recorded several CDs  and has compiled a [...]

Styx – Boat on the River – Tommy Shaw

Another famous pop song of the early 1980s with the mandolin is Boat on the River by Styx with Tommy Shaw playing mandolin. Yesterday I heard this song in our local radio station, so I looked what I could find about this song. I have found many old and new videos with this song. In [...]

Royal Estudiantina “La Napolitaine” – The Sound of the Embergher Mandolins

Ralf Leenen and the Royal Estudiantina “La Napolitaine” from Antwerpen have added four new videos from a concert given on November 7th in Edegem, Belgium. The members of this ensemble play instruments by the famous Luigi Embergher. The fantastic bright and clear sound of those instruments is very well recorded in the four videos. Live [...]

Raffaele Calace – Concerto for Mandolin – Katsia Prakopchyk / Kozo Onishi

The concerto op. 113 by Raffele Calace is my favorite romantic mandolin concerto since I have heard it on the CD with Alison Stephens and Steven Devine. This is a real masterpice by Raffaele Calace, and it is good, that this concerto ist played by the best mandolin players of today in their concerts. Yesterday [...]

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