Madeira must be a good place for mandolins – at the moment there are 17 mandolin orchstras and tunas on Madeira. Activities of those orchestras can be found on the homepage of the Associacion de Bandolins de Madeira http://www.bandolins-madeira.net/ A group of four players with mandolin, mandola (octave mandolin), guitar and bass has arranged some [...]
Today a new fantastic mandolin video has been uploaded to youtube by Carlos Blanco Ruiz. The video shows a performance of Railroad Song, a composition by Yasuo Kuwahara, played by the composer himself on the mandolin and Carlos Balnco Ruiz on the guitar. It was recorded in 1999. This is the first time that I [...]
A nice video of a concert by Jose Miguel Morena that was given during the Early Music Festivals in St. Petersburg (Russia) has created interest for this musician. The video can be found in the blog of the Russian camera man Roman Gurochkin. Moreno plays music of the Renaissance on a vihuela, at the end [...]
The mandolin orchestra La Orden de la Terraza from Logrono (Spain) gave a concert with the winning compositions of the competition for composition of the city of Logrono 2008. The whole concert is now available at youtube. At the beginning of the concert some compositions from the previous competitions were played. Concierto presentación fallo del [...]
Some days ago I have discovered the videos of a Spanish orchestra: La Orden de la Terraza This orchestra was founded in the region of Logrono / Rioja / Spain in the 70s. In Logrono every year a big festival of plucked instrument music takes place. The performance of Beyond the Rainbow by Yasuo Kuwahara [...]