Bellini – Puritani – A te, o cara / Suoni la tromba intrepido – Repertorio del Mandolinista

I have uploaded a new booklet with sheet music to my homepage www.mandoisland.de (free download). This is a booklet with title Repertorio del Mandolinista which does contain opera melodies, marches, mazurkas, polkas and a tarantella. It was published in 1899 by Carisch & Jänichen as vol. 18 of this series with popular melodies for the [...]

Donizetti – Lucia de Lammermoor – Repertorio del Mandolinista (free sheetmusic available)

I have uploaded a new booklet with sheet music to my homepage www.mandoisland.de (free download). This is a booklet with title Repertorio del Mandolinista which does contain opera melodies, marches, mazurkas, polkas and a tarantella. It was published in 1899 by Carisch & Jänichen as vol. 18 of this series with popular melodies for the [...]

Reperorio del Mandolinista – Donizetti – La Favorita (free sheet music for mandolin)

I have uploaded a new booklet with sheet music to my homepage www.mandoisland.de (free download). This is a booklet with title Repertorio del Mandolinista which does contain opera melodies, marches, mazurkas, polkas and a tarantella. It was published in 1899 by Carisch & Jänischen as vol. 18 of this series with popular melodies for the [...]

Espoirs Perdus – Speranze Perdute – Alessandro Morelli

Last week I have got a bunch of old sheet music from France, including a book Mandoline-Album with six tunes composed by Alessandro Morelli. I played the tunes and I liked it immediately. When I tried to find out more about Alessandro Morelli I did not find much information about himself, but I found that [...]

Italian Old-Time Trio – Traditional Italian Mandolin Music

The Italian Old-Time Trio plays traditional Italian mandolin music with mandolin, guitar and double bass. It  is one of the few ensembles that still plays the traditional Italian mandolin in Italy, the homeland of the mandolin. Last year the trio had been invited to the 8th Korea Mandolin Festival. Several videos of their performance in [...]