Pedro Chamorro is one of the leading bandurria players in Spain. He has recently published a new CD with solo works by Fabían Forero Valderrama for the bandurria. Fabían Forero Valderrama is a composer from Columbia. He had the idea to use the Columbian bandola (which is very similar to the Spanish bandurria) as a …
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In this post I want to present a new book about mandolin history in Spain. It is the first book in a planned series of books dealing with the history of the bandurria and mandolin in Spain. BALDOMERO CATEURA AND THE SPANISH MANDOLIN Biography, organology, influences, technical proposals of his method, repertoire, projection and anthology. …
A concert with the Duo AREKIPE – Ricardo Sandoval (Venezuela) and Kathy Lasso (Colombia) – has recently been added to the youtube channel of Ricardo Sandoval. The guitarist Matthias Collet joined the duo for this concert. You can hear a nice program of duets and trios for mandolins, bandurrias (or bandola andina) and guitar. Programm …
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During the last days I have watched many videos with music of the Canary Islands – Gran Canaria or Tenerife. On the Canary Islands they have a tradition of mixed ensembles with plucked instruments – guitar, bandurria, laud and the typical instrument named timple. In most cases the ensemble is used to accompany one or …
The Grupo Ayate – Joyfull Plucked Strings from the Canary Islands Read More »